"But, my dear madam, didn't he begin by slaying you?" exclaimed Gates in surprise.
"To be sure, he did destroy me first or I might have kept him from committing the awful crime of suicide," she said, despondently.
PART II
"But murder is so much worse than suicide," expostulated Garrison. "We hang men for murder, you know."
"I've a notion that it would be difficult to hang them for suicide. But you are quite wrong in your estimation of the crime. You do not know what it is to be murdered, I presume."
"Well, hardly."
"Nor what it is to commit suicide? Well, let me advise you, judging from what I know of the hereafter, get murdered in preference to committing suicide. I'd even suggest that you commit murder, if you are determined to do anything rash."
"And be hanged for it!" laughed Gates.