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251
He
spoke
in
a
dull
heavy
volce
"
Who
by
?
"
I
asked
sharply
"
His
wife
.
"
"
How
do
you
know
that
?
"
"
"
She
told
me
so
herself
.
"
"
When
?
"
"
Yesterday
!
My
God
!
yesterday
!
It
seems
ten
years
ago
.
"
I
waited
a
minute
,
then
he
went
on
.
252
"
You
understand
,
Sheppard
I
m
tellmg
you
this
in
confidence
.
253
It
s
to
go
no
furtther
1
want
your
advice
I
can
t
carry
the
whole
weight
by
myself
As
l
said
you
,
I
don
t
know
what
to
do
.
"
"
Can
you
tell
me
the
whole
story
?
"
I
said
.
"
I
m
still
in
the
dark
.
How
did
Mrs
.
Ferrars
come
to
make
this
confession
to
you
?
"
"
It
s
like
this
.
Three
months
ago
I
asked
Mrs
.
Ferrars
to
marry
me
.
She
refused
.
I
asked
her
again
and
she
consented
,
but
she
refused
to
allow
me
to
make
the
engagement
public
until
her
year
of
mourning
was
up
.
Yesterday
I
called
upon
her
,
pointed
out
that
a
year
and
three
weeks
had
now
elapsed
since
her
husband
s
death
,
and
that
there
could
be
no
further
objection
to
making
the
engagement
public
property
.
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I
had
noticed
that
she
had
been
very
strange
in
her
manner
for
some
days
.
Now
,
suddenly
,
without
the
least
warning
,
she
broke
down
completely
.
She
she
told
me
everything
.
Her
hatred
of
her
brute
of
a
husband
,
her
growing
love
for
me
,
and
the
the
dreadful
means
she
had
taken
.
Poison
!
My
God
!
It
was
murder
in
cold
blood
.
"
I
saw
the
repulsion
,
the
horror
,
in
Ackroyd
s
face
.
So
Mrs
.
Ferrars
must
have
seen
it
.
Ackroyd
s
is
not
the
type
of
the
great
lover
who
can
forgive
all
for
love
s
sake
.
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He
is
fundamentally
a
good
citizen
.
All
that
was
sound
and
wholesome
and
law
-
abiding
in
him
must
have
turned
from
her
utterly
in
that
moment
of
revelation
.
256
"
Yes
,
"
he
went
on
,
in
a
low
,
monotonous
voice
,
"
she
confessed
everything
.
It
seems
that
there
is
one
person
who
has
known
all
along
who
has
been
blackmailing
her
for
huge
sums
.
It
was
the
strain
of
that
that
drove
her
nearly
mad
.
"
"
Who
was
the
man
?
"
Suddenly
before
my
eyes
there
arose
the
picture
of
Ralph
Paton
and
Mrs
.
Ferrars
side
by
side
.
Their
heads
so
close
together
.
I
felt
a
momentary
throb
of
anxiety
.
Supposing
oh
!
but
surely
that
was
impossible
.
I
remembered
the
frankness
of
Ralph
s
greeting
that
very
afternoon
.
Absurd
!
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"
She
wouldn
t
tell
me
his
name
,
"
said
Ackroyd
slowly
.
"
As
a
matter
of
fact
,
she
didn
t
actually
say
that
it
was
a
man
.
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But
of
course
"
"
Of
course
,
"
I
agreed
.
"
It
must
have
been
a
man
.
And
you
ve
no
suspicion
at
all
?
"
For
answer
Ackroyd
groaned
and
dropped
his
head
into
his
hands
.
259
"
It
can
t
be
,
"
he
said
.
"
I
m
mad
even
to
think
of
such
a
thing
.
No
,
I
won
t
even
admit
to
you
the
wild
suspicion
that
crossed
my
mind
.
I
ll
tell
you
this
much
,
though
.
Something
she
said
made
me
think
that
the
person
in
question
might
be
actually
among
my
household
but
that
can
t
be
so
.
I
must
have
misunderstood
her
.
"
"
What
did
you
say
to
her
?
"
I
asked
.
260
"
What
could
I
say
?
She
saw
,
of
course
,
the
awful
shock
it
had
been
to
me
.