“It’s the truth!”
“Curse you! You have turned against me!”
“If you are going to turn murderer—yes!”
“Murderer!”
“It would have been murder had you succeeded!”
“In what?”
“Your purpose in that duel. You’d thought you could make it seem an accident if you thrust Merriwell through. You might have fooled a jury into believing it accidental, but I should have known better. I should have known you were a murderer!”
“Don’t—don’t use that word!”
“It is the word that applies.”
“The jig is up with me!” half whimpered Dunton. “Merriwell knows, and he will denounce me. You know, and you will say it is true. Oh, curse you both! I hate you!”