The Black Robe
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You are a retired officer persuaded to escort your gloomy friend Lewis Romayne to Boulogne, where an old acquaintance's card party turns ugly when a stranger needles Romayne over a glass of wine. The insult becomes a duel with the man's son; dawn on the dunes leaves a boy dead in the sand and his young brother screaming for the killer. On the crossing home, Romayne swears the scream now lives inside the ship's engine, and dreads what waits for him in the silence of Vange.
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- A Scream After the ShotBoulogne-sur-Mer