[The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Circular Study CHAPTER IX 5/11
There were some other words you have not repeated to me." "They came before that injunction, 'Remember Evelyn!' They bespoke a resolve.
'Neither she nor you will ever see me again.'" "Ah! but these few words are very significant, Mr.Gryce.Could he have dealt that blow himself? May he have been a suicide after all ?" "Madam, you have the right to inquire; but from Bartow's pantomime, you must have perceived it is not a self-inflicted blow he mimics, but a maddened thrust from an outraged hand.
Let us keep to our first conclusions; only--to be fair to every possibility--the condition of Mr. Adams's affairs and the absence of all family papers and such documents as may usually be found in a wealthy man's desk prove that he had made some preparation for possible death.
It may have come sooner than he expected and in another way, but it was a thought he had indulged in, and--madam, I have a confession to make also.
I have not been quite fair to my most valued colleague.
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