It filled his thoughts for the rest of the day, and became an
obsession. To be confronted with the girl’s damned Frenchman of a husband was another
matter altogether. They had chosen to
deliberately and wickedly insult a lady who had done her best to entertain them
for many weeks. Here was no crooked soul; a little
weak perhaps, impulsive beyond common, but fundamentally honest. Heard voices. "I did see them on the platform of the bridge—the child and
his preserver! They were not struck by the fallen ruin, nor whelmed in the
roaring flood,—or, if they were, they escaped as I escaped. It was not quite the search I intended,’ he said with a touch of selfmockery as he released her, ‘but success comes in all sorts of unexpected ways. The necessity which had previously existed of leaving the ghastly evidence of
the murderous deed undisturbed,—the presence of the mangled corpse,—the
bustle of the inquest, at which her attendance was required,—all these
circumstances produced a harrowing effect upon the young girl's imagination. ”
“And the second?”
“Make love to a single woman.
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