Word: jacquin
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...woman as a Mme. Jaquin, a Belgian lately released from the jail. But he could not understand her. Peering closely, he perceived that her tongue had been cut out, evidently with a sharp knife, close to the root. He frowned. It would be a vexing investigation, for the Jacquin woman could neither read nor write, and her friends were few. Her late jail sentence had been for gossiping viciously about neighbors...