She broke down, thought I knew more than I did, and--and then there was hell to pay." "Go on." "I suppose I talked bad and made threats--I was crazy over you--till she must have thought I meant to kill her, but I didn't.

No.

I never was quite that bad.

Anyhow, she did it herself." Gale's face was like chalk, and his voice sounded thin and dry as he said: "You beat her, that's why she did it." Stark made no answer.
"The papers said the room showed a struggle." When the other still kept silent, Gale insisted: "Didn't you ?" At this Stark flamed up defiantly.
"Well, I guess I had cause enough.

No woman except her was ever untrue to me--wife or sweetheart." "You didn't really think-- ?" "Think hell! I thought so then, and I think so now.