<P> They retire for the night . </P> <P> At the conclusion of Chapter 9, the Marquis is found stabbed to death in his bed . "The Gorgon had surveyed the building again in the night, and had added the one stone face waiting for two hundred years ." (Chapter 9). All of his property is inherited by Darnay, who remains in London but instructs an agent to redress grievances as far as possible in the growing confusion of the pending revolution . </P> <P> A year later Gaspard, assassin of the Marquis and father of the child ridden down by his carriage, is captured and executed, his body left hanging above the village water fountain . Subsequently the Evrémonde chateau is burned to the ground at night by "Jacques" revolutionaries while the abused villagers watch in grim silence and the officers of a neighboring royal garrison stand helpless because they know that their troops will probably no longer obey their orders . </P> <P> Only later in the novel, during the trial of Charles Darnay, is the secret of the Marquis and his brother exposed: Alexandre Manette's diary from the Bastille details how in 1767 the Evrémonde brothers (the younger initially helped by the elder) had abducted and abused a pregnant peasant wife causing her death, fatally wounded her brother who tried to protect her and had brought about the deaths of both the girl's husband and father as well . Manette tries to alert the authorities to the Evrémonde crimes but his letter is passed on to the aristocratic brothers . This was the reason he was imprisoned in the Bastille; likewise this was the inspiration of a lifelong hatred of the Evrémondes by the last member of the wronged girl's family - her sister Madame Defarge who married Manette's servant Ernest Defarge . </P>

Who killed the marquis in a tale of two cities