‘What do you say of these troops?’
‘You see, we’re militia. Chapter XXIV
A CASE FOR THE POLICE
After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. Perhaps for the first time he realized that
Anna was by no means an ordinary person. ‘Gabbling and muttering in a foreign tongue, that’s what I heard, sir,’ had
declared the gap-toothed ancient, when he told them of the initial foray he had
made, sneaking around the house in the dark. Her husband had caught her leaning over a precipice
into the ruins of the oubliette, and had punished her by
flogging her back with a switch. As she came close, he took a pace forward and seized her from behind, one
strong arm clamping her tight against his chest, the free hand seizing her about
the mouth, stifling the cry that gurgled in her throat. She
says to be home by one AM. Most of the vessels lying in the river were driven from their
moorings, dashed tumultuously against each other, or blown ashore.
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