:26:02
...who was our father's brother.
:26:35
At first it appeared that for
some inexplicable reason...
:26:38
...our father was actually...
:26:41
...conducting them on a tour of
his ghastly chamber.
:26:46
Nicholas could see that both
our mother and our uncle...
:26:49
...were uneasy, frightened.
:26:51
Our father's smiling affability...
:26:55
...as he described the workings
of these hellish instruments...
:26:58
...turned Nicholas' blood cold.
:27:01
He watched them with a mounting
sense of premonition.
:27:05
Something was wrong, most
terribly wrong.
:27:09
Even he, no more than
10 years of age...
:27:12
...could sense it like a
darkening vapor in the air.
:27:15
There was no reason...
:27:17
...for our mother and our uncle
to have been there.
:27:22
As he struck, he kept on
screaming at his brother...
:27:27
...one word, over and over.
:27:29
"Adulterer! Adulterer!"
:27:32
And then he turned on her.
:27:37
Accusing her of vile debauchery
with his brother...
:27:41
...cursing her as faithless...
:27:43
...promising her the
agonies of hell...
:27:45
...and payment
for her infidelity...
:27:47
...and then before my brother's
very eyes...
:27:52
...our mother was tortured to death.