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"What do you uess? He probably told you he'd have you divorce Ethridge once he'd coh money to make it hile"

"How did you know?"

"I told you Just a guess But I don't think he'd have done it that way He would have wanted the whole thing He'd have waited until your husband inherited his ht, and all of a sudden you'd turn out to be a very rich "

"Oh, God"

"Then you'd re do you suppose it would have taken him to put another notch on his knife"

"God!"

"Of course, it's just a guess"

"No" She shivered, and all of a sudden her face lost a lot of its polish and she looked like the girl she had stopped being a long tio "He'd have done it just that way," she said "It's uess That's just the way he would have done it"

"Another glass of wine?"

"No" She put her hand onmy life around Maybe that's not all you did Maybe you saved it"

"We'll never knoe?"