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that crushed his head like an egg。 I would have spared her; perhaps;

for all my madness; but she threw her arms round him; crying out to

him; and calling him 〃Alec。〃 I struck again; and she lay stretched

beside him。 I was like a wild beast then that had tasted blood。 If

Sarah had been there; by the Lord; she should have joined them。 I

pulled out my knife; and… well; there! I've said enough。 It gave me

a kind of savage joy when I thought how Sarah would feel when she

had such sign of what her meddling had brought about。 Then I tied

the bodies into the boat; stove a plank; and stood by until they had

sunk。 I knew very well that the owner would think that they had lost

their bearings and had drifted off out to sea。 I cleaned myself up;

got back to land; and joined my ship without a soul having a suspicion

of what had passed。 That night I made up the packet for Sarah Cushing;

and next day I sent it from Belfast。

  〃'There you have the whole truth of it。 You can hang me; or do

what you like with me; but you cannot punish me as I have been

punished already。 I cannot shut my eyes but I see those two faces

staring at me… staring at me as they stared when my boat broke through

the haze。 I killed them quick; but they are killing me slow; and if

I have another night of it I shall be either; mad or dead before

morning。 You won't put me alone into a cell; sir? For pity's sake

don't; and may you be treated in your day of agony as you treat me

now。〃

  〃What is the meaning of it Watson?; said Holmes solemnly as he

laid down the paper。 〃What object is served by this circle of misery

and violence and fear? It must tend to some end; or else our

universe is ruled by chance; which is unthinkable。 But what end? There

is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as

far from an answer as ever。〃





                          …THE END…




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