As Mansel laid down the head, I came up with my sheet, and the two of us covered the body without a word. Then – ‘I can’t speak French, sir,’ said Mansel; ‘will you tell them to find a stretcher or something like that? I mean, we can’t leave her here.’ Someone thought of the leaf of a table, and this was brought. As Mansel and Bell were laying the body upon it, Acorn came, blowzed and bustling, to take my place. ‘Take her to the chapel,’ he said. ‘And lock the door, if you please, and bring me the key.’ As the bearers moved off, he addressed himself to me. ‘Mr Chandos, what do you know of this shocking affair?’ I told him shortly enough. ‘What a dreadful business,’ he said. ‘To fall from a window like that! She’s only been here a week. Julie, her name was. Julie. A country girl. She was taken as kitchen-maid. Most respectable people, her parents.’ He sucked in his breath. ‘Madame de — will be most frightfully upset.’ ‘Naturally enough,’ said I.
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