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From: Woollard L. <he...@jt...> - 2009-08-23 17:28:19
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Then I flung him in--that's all. Splash!... God, I can hear it now! I saw his face just under the water. Then I went on." "You went on?" she repeated, trembling in every limb. "I picked up the pocketbook which I had shaken out of his clothes in that first struggle. I studied its contents, and it gave me an idea. I went to Liverpool, stayed at the hotel where he had engaged rooms, dressed myself in his clothes, and went on the steamer in his place. I travelled to New York as Mr. Douglas Romilly of the Douglas Romilly Shoe Company, occupied my room at the Waldorf under that name. Then I disappeared suddenly--there were too many people waiting to see me. I took the pseudonym which he had carefully prepared for himself and hid for a time in a small tenement house. Then I rewrote the play. There you have my story." "You--murdered him, Philip!... You!" "It was no crime," he continued calmly, filled with a queer sense of relief at the idea of being able to talk about it. "My whole life, up |