"It had to be done, and it was the safest way.

It would be an accident.

Such a thing might easily happen." "You have murdered him!" she gasped with a wild look.
"To call it murder!" he sneered.

"Surely my wife would not call it murder." "Fiend--not to have the courage to fight him!" she flung back at him.
"To crawl like a snake and let loose a river on a man! In any other country, he'd have been given a chance." This was his act in a new light.

He had had only one idea in his mind when he planned the act, and that was punishment.