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A transitory expression of bewilderment clouded Shaynon's eyes. "I'm no judge," the detective announced doubtfully. "It makes no difference," Shaynon insisted. "Theft's theft!" "It makes a deal of difference whether it's grand or petit larceny," P. Sybarite flashed "a difference almost as wide and deep as that which yawns between attempted and successful wife-murder, Mr. Shaynon!"
He even ceased to observe, with any sharpness or attempted discrimination, the two men, one of whom he had undertaken with surprising self-confidence, to drag away upon the serious charge of wife-murder. The consul felt a decided discomfort. Reeves and Morgan were his friends and pals; yet the sheriff from Kentucky had a certain right to his official aid and moral support.
But what if the poor child, as she grows up, sees some one, among that overplus of men, to whom she, for the first time in her life, takes a fancy? Then comes a scandal; and one which is often ended swiftly enough by the cutlass. Wife-murder is but too common among these Hindoos, and they cannot be made to see that it is wrong. 'I kill my own wife. Why not?
A well-known witness testified: "We find that one is accused of wife-murder, four of burglary, two of wife-beating, and one of arson." A thoroughly reliable and responsible detective, who had been in the United States secret service, also gave damaging testimony.
Praise be to God, these three murderers of their own children were by and by touched with the story of Jesus, became members of the Church, and each adopted little orphan children, towards whom they continued to show the most tender affection and care. Wife-murder was also considered quite legitimate.
The rid man told stories about the dark sides of New York life, tales of murder, thievery, rascality high and low, and he told them with blood-curdling directness. The Walker wife-murder; the inside facts of the De Pugh divorce scandal; the Harvey family's skeleton all food for the dime-novel producer.
Bundlecombe was silent again, and the other did not disturb her, knowing by experience what the effort to speak would be likely to end in. Things had not gone well at Birchmead in the last six months. The news of Alan's arrest on the charge of wife-murder that was the exaggerated shape in which it first reached the village was a terrible blow to poor Aunt Bessy.
The popular opinion was evidently against him. The great majority thought this case of attempted wife-murder too clear for argument, and too cold-blooded to warrant anything like sympathy for the accused. Alan's private affairs had been made public property for some time past, and he now suffered from a storm of hostility and prejudice against which it was impossible to contend.
"Yes, another case of wife-beating and wife-murder. What a dreadful increase of those crimes there has been lately," said De Vayne. "Another proof," said Bruce, "of the gross absurdity of the marriage-theory." De Vayne opened his eyes wide in astonishment.
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