19/23 Listen, dearest; all that I know, all that we know of Crinkett is, that he is asking money of me because the purchase he made of me has turned out badly for him.' 'But he is to marry that woman, who says that she is--' Then she stopped, looking into his face with agony. She could not bring herself to utter the words which would signify that another woman claimed to be her husband's wife. I cannot condemn the man for what the woman has written until I know that he says the same himself. He was my partner, and I have had his money;--I fear, all his money. He as yet has said nothing about the woman. |