The Mysterious Disappearance of the Chevalier Valmont

“Have you sinned much?”

“Perhaps not as much as noble ladies and gentlemen at the Court of His Majesty Mouse XXV (read: Mouse the Twenty-Fifth), but then, I’ve had fewer opportunities.

“You’re not being serious, are you?”

“I’m dead serious.”

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“Have you killed? You don’t need to answer this question if you don’t want to.”

“Oh, I don’t mind telling you. Yes, I have killed. But only in battle, and only when I knew that my own life was in danger. I beg your pardon, but why are you asking such things? Do you want to hire me as an assassin?”

“What a strange thing to say!”

“How so? Or don’t they hire killers to dispose of a rival anymore?”

“You don’t need to hire a killer to do away with a rival. There are so many other ways to get rid of an enemy.”

“Like breaking your rival’s heart by stealing from her someone she loves? Or, perhaps, by driving her to suicide?”

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