Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-31
EVENING EDITION.

Her limbs hardly moved after ahe
fell, she q dead in 2 moment.
And then, quite quietly, ! drove
the knife into the earth to clean the
blood OF 1t. l passed it a little
through some grass. And then I put
it back INTO the sheath again and into
my pocket, and walked back to the
house, quite quietly and >collecteday.
When l went into the library l put
the knife back into the drawer in the
| oak bureau, in its usual place, and as
I shut the drawer / turned and saw
| Granger in the room. When he came
in I don't know; what he had seen I
don't know.
any more THAI night, but the next
morning after locking the library
door, l took it out to. see whether
all traces Of what l had done with
it were gone, and I saw that 1t had
been newly cleaned, probably that
morning. And then I Remembered
that Granger looked as II he had
not been to bed The night before
when Lveeay gave The alarm. I
think he must have been sitting up
expecting something, perhaps expect
ing just what did come. ! Won't know
how much he saw or how much he
suspected.
r looked at his face and asked
him q question once or twice. to lead
him to tell me what he knew, but he
never would, and his face is always
like a mask. I believe he knows pref
not even II a dozen men were going
to, be hanged for the murder which
ske\ knew + did.
I know I committed murder, but
% far q Gods judgment of me goes
It will be for Vibart's murder, who
is still alive, that He will condemn
me. I was guilty Of that. I know. for
I went ont purposely to kill him. ]
as good as murdered him But my
! God. though I did in the judgment
Of mon, for though l struck her with
a knife and killed her I swear that
I had no consciousness at he time OF
what l did. I havc said 50 before.
and I will say it again and again.
All the same, I did not feel Any
great sorrow for 1t as SOC as I had
done it.. When I saw the dead body
lying there at my feet all Thought OF
Wharf in the Summer-house went out
of my head. I quite forgot tho job
I had started out to do. ! went back
to the library, as I have said, and
after Granger had gone out-he had
been bringing in the whiskey and
syphon-I sat in the armchair and
thought.
I thought and thought and grad
ually, l suppose, out Of n de~~
state that my mind had been H., /
began to think more clearly again.
And as I began to think more clearly
my love for my wife came back to
me again. and none of the hate with
1t. I began to think Of her as I had
known her first, or, I suppose I
ought to say, as I had fancied her, 30
young and loving, or. at least affection
ate, or seeming a~frectionate to me.
that brute-it was all his fault-he
had that Influence over her which
she could not resist.
And then I began to think OF her
young dead body lying out there like
hat with the dews falling upon il
and the night creatures, insects and
mice and horrible things crawling
. awful to think Of. I could not leave
it lying there. Besides, I did wan to
see it again-the face and that young
body that I had loved and did love
I couldn't bear to- think of it lying
there.
So I went out again. I had 6
8 silly idea that when I got to the tur1
I might not find>it, after al1-that II
. might turn out to be all a mistake
l AAnO'" uACdIA 41UI ~ WuSN ts.H 4ApCIS
was the body, the white figure.
, I stopped over it. There was no.
E a great deal of blood. 1t was all OF
the dress. It had taken it up so thai
the grass was not stained at all.
was able to lift her up, she was slen'
der and light, and carry her easily
/ without any of the blood coming OF
my clothes.
So I carried her to the Summer
house. II had no thought at all O.
e Wharf, whether he would be Their,
or not. He had gone altogethel
t from my thoughts. AS a matter o
fact, he had left the Summer-hous'
hours before. but I did not know
that. l did not know how long I hat
been sitting in the library.
I laid my wife's body or the f1oo
e of the Summer-house. She woult
a be safe there from the horrible crea
lures. And I did not suppose tina
she would be found till morning
Then I went back and went to be,
and came out again when Livesa,
e rang at the front door. He must hav
found her very sooE after I laid he
e there.
That. is all I have to write. Blu
q l will add this, that when I carrie,
u my Wife's body, as l say, to the Sum
mer-house. I had no idea of putin,
e the suspicion Of her death on Captain
d Wharf. He had gone clean out OF m
thoughts. I did think of putting tn
blame on him or anyone else.
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