.. What more likely than that she had gone forth
to keep tryst with her husband and accidentally met her death? "He
arrives," said I, "waits for her. She never comes. He goes away.
The next day he learns from local gossip or from newspapers what
has happened. He thinks it best to keep silent and let her fair
name be untouched...What have you to say against that theory?"
"Possible," he replied. "Anything conceivable within the limits of
physical possibility is possible. But it isn't probable. I have an
intuitive feeling that there was villainy about--and if ever I get
hold of that man--God help him!"
So there was nothing more to be said.
CHAPTER X
I haven't that universal sympathy which is the most irritating
attribute of saints and other pacifists. When, for instance,
anyone of the fraternity arguing from the Sermon on the Mount
tells me that I ought to love Germans, either I admit the
obligation and declare that, as I am a miserable sinner, I have no
compunction in breaking it, or, if he is a very sanctimonious
saint, I remind him that, such creatures as modern Germans not
having been invented on or about the year A.D. 30, the rule about
loving your enemies could not possibly apply.
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