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Some one knocks sharply at the door. Immediately a dragoon enters, [with] sword in hand, and rushes at Bluebeard.

The latter, recognizing that it was his wife's brother, tries ' to escape ; but the brother catches iiim, and passing his sword through lus body, leaves him dead.

Bluebeard's wife was his sole- heir.^ A part of his property she gave to her sister, who Jiad long bcen loved by * a nobleman ; with another part she bought a captain's commission for her brother ; and soon,^ with another husband, she forgot the sad*' days' (which) she had passed with Bluebeard.

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