"The
executioner will wait on you when he makes you a head shorter."
"The executioner? Fool, what nonsense you are talking! No executioner
will touch me. At the utmost I shall get three months imprisonment.
If six months is the sentence given for the murder of an innocent man,
surely one can't get more than three for killing a murderer."
At last Panna was left alone and the iron doors of her cell closed with
an echoing sound. The crime naturally created the utmost excitement in
the county jail; officials and employees talked of nothing else, and
after learning from Janos who the criminal was, the opinion was
generally expressed that she must be crazy. Before the examining
magistrate, who was informed of the bloody deed in the course of the
forenoon, gave Panna an examination, he sent a physician to see her and
give an opinion of her mental condition.
The doctor found the young widow lying on the bench, deadly pale and
utterly exhausted. She had spent all the power of her soul in the
horrible resolve and its execution, and was now as gentle and tearful
as a frightened child.
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