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Johnson, Owen, 1878-1952

"Murder in Any Degree"

I love you, Fanny Montrose, and
I want you to come back to me. And if you're afraid to come, I want to
tell you not a word will pass my lips on the subject; for I haven't
forgotten that it was you made a man of me; and much as I try, I cannot
hate you, Fanny Montrose."'
"He looked down and wrote for a minute, and then he handed me the paper
and said: 'Send that.'
"I looked, and saw it was what I had told him, and I said doubtfully:
'Do you think that is best?'
"'I do.'
"So I mailed the letter as he said, and three days after came one from a
lawyer, saying my wife could have no communication with me, and would I
send what I had to say to him.
"So I went down to Gilday and told him, and I said: 'We must think of
other things, sir, since she likes luxury and those things better; for
I'm beginning to think that's it--and there I'm a bit to blame, for I
did encourage her. Well, she'll have to marry him--that's all I can see
to it," I said, and sat very quiet.
"'He won't marry her,' he said in his quick way.
"I thought he meant because she was bound to me, so I said: 'Of course,
after the divorce.


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