“Exactly,” Driscoll said with feeling. “He’d swindled her, lied to her and cheated her. He only married her for her money. I felt that he’d forfeited any rights he might have had as a husband.”
“But you knew the law regarded him as her legal husband and still clothed him with the rights of a husband?”
“Yes.”
“You knew there’d been no suit for divorce filed?”
“Yes.”
“And yet, before you left that house, you were planning to run away with this woman?”
“I was planning to take her to Reno, where she could institute a divorce action. At first I intended to let her go by herself. Later on I decided to join her on her trip.”
“And you did so?”
“I did.”
“Did you know Walter Prescott was dead when you left the house?”