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sure that underneath the Queen’s screams there was cheering from the palace.
    Then they were both gone.

Epilogue
    The undertaker and his wife had seen death in many forms, yet never grew accustomed to the sight. For example, in the darkened parlour surrounded by coffins and lit by a dark wax candle, the undertaker looked down upon the girl on his table. She was around thirteen years old, with long blonde hair, and thus far no one had claimed her. She had been seen jumping into the Thames, her body found an hour or so later.
    “What a waste of so much love and potential,” the undertaker’s wife noted. “What does this world do to them?”
    The undertaker and his wife, although young for their profession, had been unable to have children of their own. The wife had secretly thought that death had somehow seeped into her.
    “I think I will take care of this one,” the undertaker said. “I don’t want to see her in a pauper’s grave. She deserves more.”
    The wife nodded. “We shall give her a name; let’s not have a blank stone.”
    “That’s a nice idea, wife,” the undertaker said. “And what shall you name her?”
    “I like Alice,” the wife replied.
    With that Alice coughed and breathed and opened her eyes and sat up. Of course, the undertaker and his wife very nearly died of terror.
    Later, after all the shock and when the undertaker and his wife had stopped screaming, they listened to a story they could scarce believe, of a world where the unwanted dead went. It was also decided that no one else would scarce believe it either. So in the end there was nothing for it. Alice found new parents and the undertaker and his wife found a daughter.



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