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"I then deterht of my enemy's burial The Sahibah was alone in the house and was intending to leave it that night I knew she would see that everything was securely fastened before she went away, and so, when I opened one of the s, I was sure she would co down outside I awaited her approach, intending to spring up and stab her while she was pulling the n Everything happened as I planned--what ails the Sahib? I did not kill her! No, at the last --never irl did not proave up the idea, returned to New York, and re-embarked for Bombay as innocent in act as when I left it My life had been a failure and I had no desire to prolong it When you arrested reater pleasure than to have been able to plead guilty

"You already knohy I so hated Darrow He robbed me of the only woman I ever loved Maddened by jealousy, I told her I had thrown him into the well in the cave here It was a lie, but she believed it, and fled from me, and in a few minutes had thrown herself into that botto the cave and pointing down the dark shaft,--"that is the road she took in order that her bones ht rest with his, and, after all, they are thousands of miles apart It's not the triuht you here; that you e that in death I aht, "that while the carcass of the English cur rots in a foreign land, Raled with those of his beautiful Lona!"--My blood was up, and I rushed fiercely at hied h, sprang headlong into the well Down deeper and deeper sank the laugh--then it died away--then a faint plash--and all was silent Raone! For fully ten minutes I stood dazed and irresolute and then returnedthe authorities of the whole affair, but, when I realised how hard it would be for obah's murder, I decided to keep the secret of the well