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brain yielded at last ? Temple Masters be-
lieved it must be so, and yet that this confession
was not the result of madness. He
was hearing the truth—he felt sure of that.
He might have been mad when he did the
thing of which he spoke. He was not mad
now that he was speaking of it.
" I do not wish the man who led her into
her sin to suffer at man's hands— perhaps I
might say her death lies virtually at 4iis
door, and he deserves all that man would
mete out to him if indeed he had held her
down under the waters as they flowed in,
or left her in the darkest and the deepest
place the Fort held, to perish. But he will
suffer enough without that—at least I
should think so. I do n't know—he may
be hardened and impenitent in his sin, and
this my dead wife, who was my all, may be
only one of many victims. There are such
men. Still, I would not lend myself to a
lie. He did his best to slay my wife's soul.