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The beginning: "Paulin Broquet, getting up in the well where the bandits had thrown him after having condemned him to death, held out his threatening fist towards the ceiling formed by the trapdoor that had opened under his feet and closed over his head after his fall... "See you soon Zigomar!" he had shouted. To dare to shout that in such circumstances, in this state, in this tomb, was to show enormous presumption or absolute unconsciousness. Now Paulin Broquet was not in the least presumptuous, and he was perfectly aware of the situation in which he found himself. His enemies, having pronounced his death sentence, had carried out their sentence immediately, so that the judgment would find its full effect, its implacable solution, without respite. The executioners knew from experience that their victim could not escape his terrible fate. In this well, in this sewer, it was for every condemned person certain death, certain demise, horrible, repugnant, more or less long in coming. They did not even want, by a refinement of cruelty, that their victim should die immediately. And they took pleasure in hearing his cries, his desperate calls reach them from the bottom of the well. #Detective Novel #LeonSazie #Zigomar AudioCite