Le Coffre et le Revenant

This short story takes place in Spain and tells the story of two young lovers, don Fernando de la Cueva and doña Inès Arregui, who find themselves separated by the latter's forced marriage with don Blas Bustos y Mosquera, feared director of the police of Grenade, defrocked monk and former galley slave. Extract: The women looked in terror from a small corner of their windows this terrible director of the police of Granada. Heaven punished his cruelty by putting the imprint of his soul on his face. He is a man six feet tall, black, and frighteningly thin.