Authors: Mignon Good Eberhart
Fair Warning (31 page)
He paused rather wistfully but very briefly.
“They’ll convict him somehow,” he cried excitedly. “There’s evidence enough. A lot of it’s circumstantial, but a lot of it’s—what do you call it?—anyway, it’s as plain as the nose on your face once you put everything together. He’ll confess. What’ll you bet he confesses? He’ll confess—or maybe,” he said, struck by the thought and stopping in his headlong pace to stare at Rob—“maybe he’ll commit suicide. That’s more likely. It’s too convincing evidence for him to hope to evade—”
Rob got up suddenly and said, “Oh, for God’s sake, Gally!” and turned to Marcia. “Let’s go—let’s go,” he said.
He opened the french doors, and they stood there a moment. The rain had stopped, and the sky had cleared and a thin, watery moon was riding high.
Rob drew her out into the night.
“Let’s leave this house,” he said. “Forever.”
“Forever,” said Marcia. He took her hand, and they went together, needing each other, through the wet darkness. At the garden wall he stopped and took her in his arms, and the moonlight made a shadow of them against the wall.
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copyright © 1935, 1936 by Mignon G. Eberhart
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