- The Prouds 284
Meanwhile, Hammond stood up, took his sword out
of sand, and ran quickly towards his limping brother. When
he reached him, Jarvis turned around. Hammond stabbed
him with the sword in his upper belly.
Hammond killed his brother, who had never harmed
him and who had always trusted him. He did that without
mercy or hesitation, He killed all the memories, all those
days and nights, all that joy and sorrow, all those laughs
and tears, all those mutual sacrifices, and everything they
had shared.
After Hammond stabbed him, Jarvis opened his
eyes overwhelmed by what Hammond had done, then he
looked at his brother’s sword inserted into his stomach and
thought, How could you kill me, Hammond?
With blood coming out of Jarvis’s mouth, as he fell
to his knees, he started breathing faster and cried, “Aaaah,
aaaah, aaaah.”
Then he shouted with a broken heart, “I swear to
God, I would rather be killed a million times by one million
mean enemies than be killed by you, Brother...”
Tears started falling down from his eyes. “But I
want you to know before I die, that I have never betrayed
you and I would never do that. That woman tried to seduce
me and I said no. Ask your maid, Melanie.”
The pain inside Jarvis was so enormous that it could
not be imagined.
When Hammond heard Melanie’s name, he
remembered how Florrie had sent her away and how her
claim of Melanie’s disobedience had been unbelievable,
and realized that Melanie was the witness to his brother’s
innocence and his wife’s guilt. He regretted not going to