CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE MOAT

Fortunio and the Marquise reached the window side by side, and they were in time to hear a dull splash in the waters fifty feet below them. There was a cloud over the little sickle of moon, and to their eyes, fresh from the blaze of candle-light, the darkness was impenetrable.

"He is in the moat," cried the Marquise excitedly, and Valerie, who sat on the floor whither she had slipped when Fortunio shook her off, rocked herself in an agony of fear.

To the horrors about her--the huddled bodies lying so still upon the floor, the bloody footprints everywhere, the shattered furniture, and the groans of the man with the wounded thigh--to all this she was insensible. Garnache was dead, she told herself; he was surely dead; and it seemed as if the very thought of it were killing, too, a part of her own self.

Unconsciously she sobbed her fears aloud. "He is dead," she moaned; "he is dead."

The Marquise overheard that piteous cry, and turned to survey the girl, her brows lifting, her lips parting in an astonishment that for a second effaced the horrors of that night. Suspicion spread like an oil stain in her evil mind. She stepped forward and caught the girl by one of her limp arms. Marius, paler than his stunning had left him, leaned more heavily against the door-post, and looked on with bloodshot eyes. If ever maiden avowed the secret of her heart, it seemed to him that Valerie avowed it then.

1. who went to the window
2. Were they in a line
3. what did they hear when they walked up
4. how far down
5. who was sitting on the floow
6. what emotion was she feeling
7. what was everywhere on the floor
8. what was broken
9. did a woman have the injured thigh
10. Who was dead
11. who heard the cry
12. who did he look over
13. how was the girl caught
14. what chapter is this story in
15. what covered the moon
16. what word was compared to an oil stain
17. who leaned against the door post
18. how was Garnache killed
19. what word was used to describe the darkness
1. Fortunio and the Marquise
2. no
3. a dull splash
4. 50 feet down
5. Valerie
6. fear
7. bloody footprints
8. furniture
9. no
10. Garnache was dead,
11. The Marquise
12. the girl,
13. by one of her limp arms.
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15. There was a cloud
16. Suspicion
17. Marius
18. unknown
19. impenetrable.