The Villainess's Revenge

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(Before we start the chapter, I would like to inform the readers that this news article is found on a website called https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/martha-tabram-newspaper-reports.htm, feel free if you want to read more news articles about the news articles of Martha Tabram, a woman who was one of the many victims of Jack The Ripper.

Also, I know the murders of Jack The Ripper didn't happen until the later years of the 1800s, so I adjusted the time frame in my novel, and I changed the name Martha Tabram to Victoria Tabram. And one last thing, although Martha Tambram wasn't a canonical victim of Jack The Ripper, she will be a canonical victim here.}

It was Victoria. It was no wonder she had this unsettling feeling somewhere inside of her heart because it was all linked to Victoria.

In a panic, Lady Melissa quickly scanned through the other bundles of newspapers, untying 5-10 of them and skimming through each one of the newspapers, hoping to see another newspaper talk about another one of Jack The Ripper's murders.

Lady Melissa didn't have to wait long for that, though, not long after she found a newspaper talking about another one of Jack The Ripper's murders.

It was a newspaper report titled 'A Whitechapel horror'.

Lady Melissa didn't know why but she felt attracted to the news report, almost as if something was drawing her in to read more about it.

Upon reading more about the newspaper, she found out that it was about a woman called Victoria Tabram who was murdered on the 7th of April 1965.

Lady Melissa read the newspaper more and more, eager to find out more details of what had happened to the woman 'Victoria Tabram.'

"A woman, now lying unidentified at the mortuary, Whitechapel, was ferociously stabbed to death this morning, between two and four o'clock, on the landing of a stone staircase in George's-buildings, Whitechapel.

George's buildings are tenements occupied by the poor labouring class.

A lodger going early to his work found the body.

Another lodger says the murder was not committed when he returned home about two o'clock.

The woman was stabbed in 20 places. No weapon was found near her, and her murderer has left no trace. She is of middle age and height, has red hair and a large, round face, and apparently belonged to the lowest class."

Lady Melissa skimmed through the whole news report in just a few minutes, and in the corner of her eye, she saw something on the right corner of the newspaper.

Lady Melissa, curious to know what was on the corner of the newspaper, decided to inspect it closely. However, it turns out it was simply the company's name that had made that newspaper, which happened to be THE STAR.

'Well, I don't know how that's gonna help me.'

Lady Melissa sarcastically said to herself in her mind.

After that sarcastic thought Lady Melissa had, she quickly went back to search for newspapers about Jack The Ripper's murder on Victoria Tabram.

Before Lady Melissa had stumbled upon yet another newspaper, titling 'The Supposed Murder In Whitechapel.'

It was a news article made by some company called THE MORNING POST, which Lady Melissa found out about because the company's name was written in a big and bold font, right above the newspaper's title.

Early yesterday morning, a man named Reeves, living at 37, George-yard buildings, Whitechapel, was coming downstairs to go to work, when he discovered the body of a woman lying in a pool of blood on the first-floor landing.

Reeves at once called in Constable Barrett, and Dr. Keeling, of Brick-lane, made an examination of the woman and pronounced life extinct, giving it as his opinion that she had been brutally murdered, there being knife wounds on her breast, stomach, and abdomen.

The woman was, apparently between 35 and 40 years of age, about 5ft. 3in. in height, complexion and hair red, wore a dark green skirt, a brown petticoat, a long black jacket, and a black bonnet.

The body has been removed to Whitechapel mortuary, and Inspector Reid of the Criminal Investigation Department is making enquiries.

Based on Victoria's manner of speaking, Lady Melissa assumed she was of low class. Her hair was something, coincidentally or not, happened to be mentioned in BOTH of the newspapers Lady Melissa had read about Victoria.

Lady Melissa, now very much convinced that the woman was Victoria, or at least that was what Lady Melissa believed.

The details wouldn't give much about Victoria. Still, it was just enough for Lady Melissa to know that girl in particular that the newspapers had written and talked about was Victoria. Call Lady Melissa reckless, but it was a gut feeling.

Lady Melissa heard footsteps, her heart beating fast; she quickly hid behind one of the cupboards.

Luckily after a few minutes had passed, the footsteps had come to a halt, and it had become silent once more; Lady Melissa opened the door by a little, hoping not to encounter anyone.

As the universe would have it, luck was on her side, at least for today. There was no one in sight when Lady Melissa checked, and she breathed out a sigh of relief.

Lady Melissa quickly and silently ran up her room, eager to think about what she had read in the newspaper.

Not long after, Lady Melissa had finally arrived in her room, slowly opening the door, not wanting to alert nor awake anyone.

'So I believe Jack The Ripper and the man who I saw murdered that woman in front of me a few days ago are practically the same person and that the one who murdered Victoria was also... Jack The Ripper then.'

Lady Melissa thought, thinking hard and putting her hand under her chin while stroking her imaginary beard.

'I'll talk to Victoria about this tomorrow. I need to get some sleep.'

Lady Melissa thought, quickly brushing her teeth and turning off the lights before going to bed to try and get some sleep.

Many hours had passed, and Lady Melissa hadn't slept a single wink at all.. Her eye bags were VERY visible, and she looked more tired and dead than she usually did.

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