In the middle of a meeting , Mr. Bermutier , judge tells an inexplicable case. He exercised in Ajaccio and had to care for vendetta. One day an Englishman comes to town and becomes the subject of rumors : it would be a character on the run for a political case . Every person has an opinion about him.
This interest soon the judge who is seeking information about Sir John Rowell . It is practiced by hunting the two men that contact is made . Later, the English invited the judge in his house and shows her his collection of weapons . In the center, attached by a thick chain to the wall, a man's severed hand at the forearm dried and blackened by time. At the judge's expression of surprise, the Englishman replied: "This is the hand of my best enemy . "
