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"
One
moment
,
Mr.
Alden
,
one
moment
.
You
must
not
go
to
your
wife
yet
.
I
know
this
is
very
hard
,
terrible
,
but
let
me
explain
.
Not
in
Lycurgus
.
Not
by
any
machine
.
No
!
No
--
drowned
!
In
Big
Bittern
.
She
was
up
there
on
an
outing
on
Thursday
,
do
you
understand
?
Do
you
hear
?
Thursday
.
She
was
drowned
in
Big
Bittern
on
Thursday
in
a
boat
.
It
overturned
.
"
The
excited
gestures
and
words
of
Titus
at
this
point
so
disturbed
the
district
attorney
that
he
found
himself
unable
to
explain
as
calmly
as
he
would
have
liked
the
process
by
which
even
an
assumed
accidental
drowning
had
come
about
.
From
the
moment
the
word
death
in
connection
with
Roberta
had
been
used
by
Mason
,
the
mental
state
of
Alden
was
that
of
one
not
a
little
demented
.
After
his
first
demands
he
now
began
to
vent
a
series
of
animal-like
groans
as
though
the
breath
had
been
knocked
from
his
body
.
At
the
same
time
,
he
bent
over
,
crumpled
up
as
from
pain
--
then
struck
his
hands
together
and
threw
them
to
his
temples
.
"
My
Roberta
dead
!
My
daughter
!
Oh
,
no
,
no
,
Roberta
!
Oh
,
my
God
!
Not
drowned
!
It
ca
n't
be
.
And
her
mother
speaking
of
her
only
an
hour
ago
.
This
will
be
the
death
of
her
when
she
hears
it
.
It
will
kill
me
,
too
.
Yes
,
it
will
.
Oh
,
my
poor
,
dear
,
dear
girl
.
My
darling
!
I
'm
not
strong
enough
to
stand
anything
like
this
,
Mr.
District
Attorney
.
"
He
leaned
heavily
and
wearily
upon
Mason
's
arms
while
the
latter
sustained
him
as
best
he
could
.
Then
,
after
a
moment
,
he
turned
questioningly
and
erratically
toward
the
front
door
of
the
house
at
which
he
gazed
as
one
might
who
was
wholly
demented
.
"
Who
's
to
tell
her
?
"
he
demanded
.
"
How
is
any
one
to
tell
her
?
"
"
But
,
Mr.
Alden
,
"
consoled
Mason
,
"
for
your
own
sake
,
for
your
wife
's
sake
,
I
must
ask
you
now
to
calm
yourself
and
help
me
consider
this
matter
as
seriously
as
you
would
if
it
were
not
your
daughter
.
There
is
much
more
to
this
than
I
have
been
able
to
tell
you
.
But
you
must
be
calm
.
You
must
allow
me
to
explain
.
This
is
all
very
terrible
and
I
sympathize
with
you
wholly
.
I
know
what
it
means
.
But
there
are
some
dreadful
and
painful
facts
that
you
will
have
to
know
about
.
Listen
.
Listen
.
"
And
then
,
still
holding
Titus
by
the
arm
he
proceeded
to
explain
as
swiftly
and
forcefully
as
possible
,
the
various
additional
facts
and
suspicions
in
connection
with
the
death
of
Roberta
,
finally
giving
him
her
letter
to
read
,
and
winding
up
with
:
"
A
crime
!
A
crime
,
Mr.
Alden
!
That
's
what
we
think
over
in
Bridgeburg
,
or
at
least
that
's
what
we
're
afraid
of
--
plain
murder
,
Mr.
Alden
,
to
use
a
hard
,
cold
word
in
connection
with
it
.
"
He
paused
while
Alden
,
struck
by
this
--
the
element
of
crime
--
gazed
as
one
not
quite
able
to
comprehend
.
And
,
as
he
gazed
,
Mason
went
on
:
"
And
as
much
as
I
respect
your
feelings
,
still
as
the
chief
representative
of
the
law
in
my
county
,
I
felt
it
to
be
my
personal
duty
to
come
here
to-day
in
order
to
find
out
whether
there
is
anything
that
you
or
your
wife
or
any
of
your
family
know
about
this
Clifford
Golden
,
or
Carl
Graham
,
or
whoever
he
is
who
lured
your
daughter
to
that
lonely
lake
up
there
.
And
while
I
know
that
the
blackest
of
suffering
is
yours
right
now
,
Mr.
Alden
,
I
maintain
that
it
should
be
your
wish
,
as
well
as
your
duty
,
to
do
whatever
you
can
to
help
us
clear
up
this
matter
.
This
letter
here
seems
to
indicate
that
your
wife
at
least
knows
something
concerning
this
individual
--
his
name
,
anyhow
.
"
And
he
tapped
the
letter
significantly
and
urgently
.
The
moment
the
suggested
element
of
violence
and
wrong
against
his
daughter
had
been
injected
into
this
bitter
loss
,
there
was
sufficient
animal
instinct
,
as
well
as
curiosity
,
resentment
and
love
of
the
chase
inherent
in
Titus
to
cause
him
to
recover
his
balance
sufficiently
to
give
silent
and
solemn
ear
to
what
the
district
attorney
was
saying
.
His
daughter
not
only
drowned
,
but
murdered
,
and
that
by
some
youth
who
according
to
this
letter
she
was
intending
to
marry
!
And
he
,
her
father
,
not
even
aware
of
his
existence
!
Strange
that
his
wife
should
know
and
he
not
.
And
that
Roberta
should
not
want
him
to
know
.
And
at
once
,
born
for
the
most
part
of
religion
,
convention
and
a
general
rural
suspicion
of
all
urban
life
and
the
mystery
and
involuteness
of
its
ungodly
ways
,
there
sprang
into
his
mind
the
thought
of
a
city
seducer
and
betrayer
--
some
youth
of
means
,
probably
,
whom
Roberta
had
met
since
going
to
Lycurgus
and
who
had
been
able
to
seduce
her
by
a
promise
of
marriage
which
he
was
not
willing
to
fulfil
.
And
forthwith
there
flared
up
in
his
mind
a
terrible
and
quite
uncontrollable
desire
for
revenge
upon
any
one
who
could
plot
so
horrible
a
crime
as
this
against
his
daughter
.
The
scoundrel
!
The
raper
!
The
murderer
!
