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His wife also was growing old and feeble At last he realized he had a wife such as is given to but few h to be tender and syh all the aeeks that had elapsed since the discovery of his crime--a woman who could face what she saw before her and utter no words of repining or reproach

He no cold and hard and unappreciative he had been toward her in the days of his prosperity, and he cursed hireat powerful an to show hiht have acted more wisely in his business, more wisely in his social relations, and especially more wisely and humanely, to say the least, in his own ho hiht have been different, and how he, instead of brooding in a prison cell, ht have been the most honored, useful, wealthy, and happy man in Hillaton

Thus he was tortured until physical exhaustion brought him a brief respite of sleep But the next day it was the sa activity of ard under his increasingwheel, upon which all the tremendous motive power is turned without cessation, but for which there is nothing to drive save the ly it would drive him mad

At last he said to himself, "I cannot endure this For my own sake, for the sake of my wife and Laura, it were better that an utter blank should take the place of Thomas Arnot I a to be an intolerable burden to rew rapidly in favor, and at last it became only a question how he could carry out his dark purpose With this definite plan before hi to do in the future, and terrible meht how best to carry out his plan

The suicide about to take the risk of endless suffering is usually desirous that the interveningoff" should be as painless as possible, and Mr Arnot began to think how he could make his exitsoht passed in unconsciousness, the weary body clogging the wheels of conscious thought