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"Mon Dieu! How I needed money I would have bartered my soul for a tithe of that amount It was the old, old story, only new in Eden Ah! but how I loved her! She must have money, money, always money! That was ever her cry When I could not supply it she sought it of others, and this drove et this reward! This was soet it, she should be mine only I at once set to work upon the probleht be able to hire ato hang for it without disclosing my part in the transaction It was at this time that I first met M Latour on Decatur Street He at once iradually subdue his will In this circureatly aided me When I found him he was in very poor health and without any hter was able to earn a little, but not nearly enough to keep the wolf from the door Add to this that he had a cancer, which several physicians had assured him would prove fatal within a year, that he was afflicted with an alhter would come to want after his death, and you have before you the conditions which deterht was to influence hi the researches of M Charcot in these matters, I came to the conclusion that such a course would be almost certain to lead to detection, since a hypnotic subject can only be depended upon so long as the conditions under which he acts are precisely those which have been suggested to him Any unforeseen variations in these conditions and he fails to act, exposes everything, and the whole carefully planned structure falls to the ground When, therefore, the time ca M Latour, abduct him from his home, and to keep him confined and unconscious until I had killed Mr Darrow in a manner I will describe in due course As soon as I had committed the murder and established what I fondly believed would be a perfect alibi in my attendance at the examination, I secretly conveyed the still unconscious M Latour to his rooms and awaited his return to consciousness I then asked hi in Dorchester He was, of course, ignorant of everything Little by little I worked upon hiuilty of John Darrow's murder