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118 so excited. Hurrah for drugs, and bravo for the man who has the knowledge and pluck to use them!

The Crosswells live in Maida Vale now; he is very harmless, and his wife is very sad about him.

My agreement with her, of which I spoke, was to, if necessary, get him put under control, if he continued his statements.

I only did this to blind her as to my methods and to obtain the large cheque which was promised me both by father and daughter if I could save her from her husband.

They little knew the means adopted by me, not to save her, but to escape myself from the tongue of that drunken brute.