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"Know what you feel, Winslow!" Beanie had told him.
Yes, they were tears. Had Henry raped her?
It would be better to think. He should think. It
hadn't been Henry, but the other man. Limus Barnum,
had the doctor said? Or perhaps there had been no
other man involved but her husband (there was no way
to know, she had made no statement yet). But would it
be easier or worse if it had been her husband? But why
hadn't her husband stopped the man then?
Incontrovertible proof that Haig was unworthy. Good
God, thought Winslow, what kind of man am I?
Gloating at the failure when Haig had probably died in
her defense. Gloating at the death? No, no. Intolerable
that any man, enemy or not, should die so. Was it
intolerable? Not Haig, but what of the man who did that
to her? Could he bear not to murder such a man? Not
to crush his head to bleeding broken bone and pulp?
Had Henry done it?
Yes, but that's why there was law, impersonal,
impassionate, above revenge—or should be, or could
be. But what about the blood in her hair?
And she, she, damn it, why? Just when his soul had