… In figure, Antonin was a tall and slight man, his height only subtly lengthened by the application of the hangman’s rope. It is strange to note, but the Author believes it must be said, that Antonin’s trade-mark look of eternal surprise still rests upon his face. It will doubtless do so until his body returns to the dust. It is an expression enough to force the sympathetic to question whether Lovelace truly was deceived by his fellows as he claimed … Now, only the dead god may know the truth …
—The Black Harbor Times, Morning Issue
March 25, A.C. 1121