He went straight home after
leaving that house. He didn't go out of the Tavern again last
night, that's positive. Now, what I want to find out is this: was
the girl in love with him? Was there anything between them? If
she's at the bottom of the river down there, it's a plain case of
suicide, my friend, and people do not take their own lives unless
there's a mighty good reason. With a young girl it's usually a
case of unrequited love,--or worse. According to that letter Miss
Miller had from New York, Thane is not above betraying a girl. Of
course, if the Vick girl is dead and left nothing behind to implicate
Thane, it will be out of the question to charge him with being even
indirectly responsible for her death."
"The main thing," said Charlie, who had turned a shade paler during
this matter-of-fact, cold-blooded analysis, "is to keep Alix Crown
from falling into his clutches. He's a bad egg, that feller is,
and he's made up his mind to win her by fair means or foul."
"Well, if she falls for him after reading that lawyer's letter and
when she hears what I believe to be the truth about that heroic
episode the other night,--why, she ought to get what's coming to
her, that's all I have to say," said Mr. Gilfillan flatly. "I've
discovered one thing, Mr. Webster. If a woman makes up her mind
to marry a man, hell-fire and brimstone can't stop her.
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