Rampart Street (Valentin St. Cyr Mysteries) - Plot & Excerpts
Soon tongues were wagging like flags in a stiff breeze as the word went over picket and wrought-iron fences, up and down the banquettes, and into the stores, so that hours before the story in the afternoon edition of the Daily Picayune and the Sun hit the street, it was already old news from one end of the Garden District to the other. At the stroke of ten, a black carriage pulled up to the Kane home on Third Street, and a man in a tall black hat and a shiny black suit stepped down and went inside. Before he left, his driver carried a wreath of black roses that was in back of the carriage and placed it on the front door. Anne Marie Benedict heard about what had happened in a telephone call from Mr. Delouche. The attorney first asked after her mother's health, then her own, then took a dramatic pause and proceeded to relate in a few somber sentences that over the weekend Charles Kane had fallen into the river and drowned. A dreadful accident, he explained, and took another of his leaden pauses.
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