Part 6, Chapter 3 Summary

When Lestat hears how tumultuous things are in Paris, he wonders if he should go back. Roget tells him to stay out of Paris and Eleni suggests that Nicki will not be helped by Lestat coming back. As he and Gabrielle reach Cairo, there is a package that awaits Lestat. When he opens it he finds Nicki's Stradivarius violin. As a punishment for his erratic behavior, Armand cuts Nicki's hands off. Nicki, who has thoroughly lost his mind, kills himself by going into the fire.

Gabrielle stays with Lestat while he mourns Nicki's loss. She tries to persuade him to go with her into Africa and he declines. She later shows Lestat a letter from Roget that she had deliberately hidden. In it, he says that the peasants and tenant farmers rose against the family and killed everyone save for his...