“These criminals have finished her! Another said in the same tone.
The noise woke up Elizabeth who almost scared me out of my skin.
“What are you doing?” she asked
“Some men were attacking a woman just outside the house, and I
heard….sshs” I put a figure on my lips gesturing for her to keep it low
which took Elizabeth back to her bed leaving me behind to listen to
the voices outside before getting tired finally and going to sleep
myself. I went back to bed and tried to see through my curtain
window again. The moon had come out brightly leaving no serious
shadows so I could see the watch men standing at the same spot the
men had held the female.
The men had seen the watch men and fled immediately after robbing
and killing the woman.
She was stabbed they said learning from their loud conversation.
I was terrified by the revelations of the watch men.
How could this be?
I wished it had been a rainy night with lightning bolts flashing
through the grey sky. Another night all together,not a night of death
and a young woman being murdered.What a ruined night i groaned.
I wished I had been feeling cold from a cold weather instead,when
watching the dark sky through my window is entertaining and
longing for Romeo to hold me all night instead.
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