"'Take it as a remembrance of her,' I said. 'In a month she would have betrayed you as she betrayed me.'"
"He raged like a madman. He rushed out and called the gendarmes. Of course I was tried for murder--but it was not murder--it was justice. The judge found extenuating circumstances. Naturally! He had a wife of his own. He understood my case. Now you know why I hate that dainty jeweled woman up at the Villa Romani. She is just like that other one--that creature I slew--she has just the same slow smile and the same child-like eyes. I tell you again, I am sorry her husband is dead--it vexes me sorely to think of it. For he would have killed her in time--yes!--of that I am quite sure!"