But it would come home to him afterwards--I mean the normal point of view--the way the world would regard such a disclosure--and I have no doubt that his belated mental anguish and morbid thoughts impelled him to take his life.

Understand me, Mr.Barrant, I do not mean that he did this through remorse, but through the blow to his pride.

He couldn't face the racket--the gossip, the notoriety and all the rest of it." "But according to your story, your brother had nothing to blame himself for," said Barrant.

"You say that he was ignorant of this earlier marriage until recently ?" "Public sentiment will not look at it that way.

People will say he sacrificed a dead woman and his daughter to his own selfish ends--threw them over when he had attained his ambition.