[The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prelude to Adventure CHAPTER XIV 7/51
What have you told Craven? And why have you told him anything ?" "I told him--yesterday--that I did it." "That _you_ did it ?" "Yes, that I murdered Carfax." "My God! You fool!.
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You fool!" A most dangerous thing this devotion of a fool. But, strangely, Olva's words roused in Bunning a kind of protest, so that he pulled his eyes back into their sockets, steadied his hands, held his boots firmly to the floor, and, quite softly, with a little note of urgency in it as though he were pleading before a great court, said-- "Yes, I know.
But he drove me to it; Craven did.
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