It led, or so I believe, to her flight from a love she cherished, at a moment when our mutual life seemed about to begin." The impassive, I might almost say set features of this man of violent passions but remarkable self-restraint failed to relax or give any token of the feelings with which he listened to this attack.
"Then the news given of your wife in the papers to-night is false," was his quiet retort.

"It professes to give a distinct, if somewhat fantastic, reason for her flight.

A reason totally different from the one you suggest." "A reason you don't believe in ?" "Certainly not.

It is too bizarre." "I share your incredulity.

That is why I seek the truth from you rather than from the columns of a newspaper.