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Perhaps
if
he
were
to
explain
all
to
this
man
Mason
now
,
before
it
all
went
any
further
,
exactly
how
it
all
had
happened
.
But
that
meant
a
true
explanation
as
to
his
plot
,
his
real
original
intent
,
that
camera
,
his
swimming
away
.
That
unintended
blow
--
(
and
who
was
going
to
believe
him
as
to
that
)
--
his
hiding
the
tripod
afterwards
.
Besides
once
all
that
was
known
would
he
not
be
done
for
just
the
same
in
connection
with
Sondra
,
the
Griffiths
--
everybody
.
And
very
likely
prosecuted
and
executed
for
murder
just
the
same
.
Oh
,
heavens
--
murder
.
And
to
be
tried
for
that
now
;
this
terrible
crime
against
her
proved
.
They
would
electrocute
him
just
the
same
--
would
n't
they
?
And
then
the
full
horror
of
that
coming
upon
him
--
death
,
possibly
--
and
for
murder
--
he
sat
there
quite
still
.
Death
!
God
!
If
only
he
had
not
left
those
letters
written
him
by
Roberta
and
his
mother
in
his
room
there
at
Mrs.
Peyton
's
.
If
only
he
had
removed
his
trunk
to
another
room
,
say
,
before
he
left
.
Why
had
n't
he
thought
of
that
?
Yet
as
instantly
thinking
,
might
not
that
have
been
a
mistake
,
too
,
being
seemingly
a
suspicious
thing
to
have
done
then
?
But
how
came
they
to
know
where
he
was
from
and
what
his
name
was
?
Then
,
as
instantly
returning
in
mind
to
the
letters
in
the
trunk
.
For
,
as
he
now
recalled
,
in
one
of
those
letters
from
his
mother
she
had
mentioned
that
affair
in
Kansas
City
,
and
Mason
would
come
to
know
of
that
.
If
only
he
had
destroyed
them
.
Roberta
's
,
his
mother
's
,
all
!
Why
had
n't
he
?
But
not
being
able
to
answer
why
--
just
an
insane
desire
to
keep
things
maybe
--
anything
that
related
to
him
--
a
kindness
,
a
tenderness
toward
him
.
If
only
he
had
not
worn
that
second
straw
hat
--
had
not
met
those
three
men
in
the
woods
!
God
!
He
might
have
known
they
would
be
able
to
trace
him
in
some
way
.
If
only
he
had
gone
on
in
that
wood
at
Bear
Lake
,
taking
his
suit
case
and
Sondra
's
letters
with
him
.
Perhaps
,
perhaps
,
who
knows
,
in
Boston
,
or
New
York
,
or
somewhere
he
might
have
hidden
away
.
Unstrung
and
agonized
,
he
was
unable
to
sleep
at
all
,
but
walked
back
and
forth
,
or
sat
on
the
side
of
the
hard
and
strange
cot
,
thinking
,
thinking
.
And
at
dawn
,
a
bony
,
aged
,
rheumy
jailer
,
in
a
baggy
,
worn
,
blue
uniform
,
bearing
a
black
,
iron
tray
,
on
which
was
a
tinful
of
coffee
,
some
bread
and
a
piece
of
ham
with
one
egg
.
And
looking
curiously
and
yet
somehow
indifferently
at
Clyde
,
while
he
forced
it
through
an
aperture
only
wide
and
high
enough
for
its
admission
,
though
Clyde
wanted
nothing
at
all
.
And
then
later
Kraut
and
Sissel
and
Swenk
,
and
eventually
the
sheriff
himself
,
each
coming
separately
,
to
look
in
and
say
:
"
Well
,
Griffiths
,
how
are
you
this
morning
?
"
or
,
"
Hello
,
anything
we
can
do
for
you
?
"
,
while
their
eyes
showed
the
astonishment
,
disgust
,
suspicion
or
horror
with
which
his
assumed
crime
had
filled
them
.
Yet
,
even
in
the
face
of
that
,
having
one
type
of
interest
and
even
sycophantic
pride
in
his
presence
here
.
For
was
he
not
a
Griffiths
--
a
member
of
the
well-known
social
group
of
the
big
central
cities
to
the
south
of
here
Also
the
same
to
them
,
as
well
as
to
the
enormously
fascinated
public
outside
,
as
a
trapped
and
captured
animal
,
taken
in
their
legal
net
by
their
own
superlative
skill
and
now
held
as
witness
to
it
?
And
with
the
newspapers
and
people
certain
to
talk
,
enormous
publicity
for
them
--
their
pictures
in
the
papers
as
well
as
his
,
their
names
persistently
linked
with
his
.
And
Clyde
,
looking
at
them
between
the
bars
,
attempted
to
be
civil
,
since
he
was
now
in
their
hands
and
they
could
do
with
him
as
they
would
.
In
connection
with
the
autopsy
and
its
results
there
was
a
decided
set-back
.
For
while
the
joint
report
of
the
five
doctors
showed
:
"
An
injury
to
the
mouth
and
nose
;
the
tip
of
the
nose
appears
to
have
been
slightly
flattened
,
the
lips
swollen
,
one
front
tooth
slightly
loosened
,
and
an
abrasion
of
the
mucous
membrane
within
the
lips
"
--
all
agreed
that
these
injuries
were
by
no
means
fatal
.
The
chief
injury
was
to
the
skull
(
the
very
thing
which
Clyde
in
his
first
confession
had
maintained
)
,
which
appeared
to
have
been
severely
bruised
by
a
blow
of
"
some
sharp
instrument
,
"
unfortunately
in
this
instance
,
because
of
the
heaviness
of
the
blow
of
the
boat
,
"
signs
of
fracture
and
internal
haemorrhage
which
might
have
produced
death
.
"
But
--
the
lungs
when
placed
in
water
,
sinking
--
an
absolute
proof
that
Roberta
could
not
have
been
dead
when
thrown
into
the
water
,
but
alive
and
drowning
,
as
Clyde
had
maintained
.
And
no
other
signs
of
violence
or
struggle
,
although
her
arms
and
fingers
appeared
to
be
set
in
such
a
way
as
to
indicate
that
she
might
have
been
reaching
or
seeking
to
grasp
something
.
The
wale
of
the
boat
?
Could
that
be
?
Might
Clyde
's
story
,
after
all
,
conceal
a
trace
of
truth
?
Certainly
these
circumstances
seemed
to
favor
him
a
little
.
Yet
as
Mason
and
the
others
agreed
,
all
these
circumstances
most
distinctly
seemed
to
prove
that
although
he
might
not
have
slain
her
outright
before
throwing
her
into
the
water
,
none
the
less
he
had
struck
her
and
then
had
thrown
her
,
perhaps
unconscious
,
into
the
water
.
But
with
what
?
If
he
could
but
make
Clyde
say
that
!
