The traitor's way

Excerpt: “And is this the pity of God? He has spared mv life. Good men honorable gentlemen my friends - I had such friends once - have died like vermin. The Lake of Geneva holds all that is left Of Maligny 1c beau cadet as we called him; the Vidame died at the galleys chained to the scum of man kind. But he died Maligny died even Achon died that merciless priest! And I live as a leper! I have come to know that death is the pity Of God.