Because I desire for Gilles de Retz a fate greater, more terrible, more befitting iniquity such as the world hath never heard spoken of since it arose from the abyss.
"And this is it given to me to bring upon him whom my soul hateth," she went on.

"I have seen the hempen cord by which he shall hang.

I have seen the fire through which his soul shall pass to its own place.
Through me this fate shall come upon him suddenly in one night." Her face lighted up with an inner glow, and shone translucent in the darkening of the day and the dusk of the trees, as if the fair veil of flesh wavered and changed about the vengeful soul within.
"And now," she went on after a pause, "I bid you, gentlemen of the house of Douglas, to depart to John, Duke of Brittany, and having found him to lay this paper before him.

It contains the number and the names of those who have died in the castles of de Retz.

It shows in what hidden places the bones of these slaughtered innocents may be found.