I almost dropped the barrels and turned the knob.

It so tempted me that for a minute I almost forgot my plan. No one was there to see me splash the kerosene on the horsehair chairs or on the draperies' or to see me hesitate just for an instant at that doorway of the small yard where Madeleine and Claudia had been killed. And clutching the handle of the scythe I ventured slowly upwards until I stood in the door of the ballroom. And, though I stood stark still at the stairs with the barrels and the scythe, listening, I heard nothing, nothing of those guards I presumed to be there, nothing of the vampires themselves. The smell of it was strong, stronger and more powerful than any sound I might have made to alert anyone. Hastily I opened one barrel and, rolling the other before me towards the stairs, I hurried along, splashing the exposed beams with kerosene and flinging it on the wooden doors of the other cells. In fact, everything was gone but the furnishings, including the dead boy's enclosed bed. The key admitted me easily as rd hoped, and once inside the lower passage, I opened the door of his cell to find he was not there. Good night, my dears,' he said, and the high front door slowly closed. What are you talking about!' Red scoffed. Meantime, the wretched serpent worshiping blood drinkers came again, attempting to establish their absurd temple within one of the neglected catacombs where mortal Christians no longer gathered, and once again, Avicus and Mael drove them away.

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