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`` It was so stated at the time , '' Pitcairn answered . `` And she knows something of the duke 's death ? '' `` Knew , '' Pitcairn corrected . `` She died at noon to-day . It is her confession that I have in this paper , John . It was she herself who shot the duke , and the interwovenness of affairs is marked in this . She was an early love of Father Michel 's , before he entered the priesthood , and came to him for work after her children died . ''