"Un-Uncle Gaston… Wh-What is it…?"

"Bitch! You stand there, cunt-slut that you are and tell me you don't understand?" Suddenly, he threw back his vicious head and laughed, loud and not caring, his teeth glistening in the light. He stared at her, his evil smile never lessening, then, he moved closer to her once more. "You've got a kid! You've hid it out in the home of one Rafael Girarde here in Montreal. A bastard brat you'd like to forget… and you dare to marry my Antoine and pretend? Cunt-slut! That's what you are! Come into my house… Me, Gaston Larreau, and put on airs! You pig! What do you think Antoine would say if he knew? Eh? And you wonder how I know, don't you, bitch? Well I'll tell you. Your Dr. Carey does little things for me… takes a shady bullet out now and then… whatever I have for him. But suddenly, he read the papers… thought he might have a hot banana, one he could use to raise hush money, so he dared come to me and spit out the truth."

Madeleine had backed to the door. The czar inched closer against her. He said: "You know what that information cost me?" He laughed. "Twenty dollars… enough for a gallon of booze. And you know the value of that same information my pet?" Once more, he laughed… slowly at first, then, in a rising crescendo. "You! You, my dear, are the ultimate value of that twenty dollars so well-spent. You, with your young, voluptuous charms will crawl to me unless you want me to destroy your world. You will give yourself entirely to me to do with as I see fit… otherwise, I'll completely destroy you not only with Antoine, but wherever you go. Now… say something, darling… say something intelligent, you luscious creature."

Madeleine stood frozen in mental horror. Her entire body seemed a part of the door as she pressed backward against it and stared at the metamorphosis of human into monster before her. She watched him raise his drink to his lips and sip, and she watched mesmerized in abject terror and instantaneous hatred, the salacious leer ever contorting his evil face as inch by inch he moved in closer to her.