“I did that in a fit of passion.”
“I’m now acting in a fit of passion,” sneered Hare.
“Frank, I didn’t mean to harm you; I swear I didn’t.”
“Oh, I don’t suppose you would have done much more than killed me.”
“If I wanted to murder you I should have waited until you went to sleep.”
“Yes, that would have been the better way; but then I would not have gone to sleep.”
“I never robbed Monte Murphy.”
“You did more; you threw him into a cellar to die.”
Blair gave a sudden start. It was plain to him that Murphy lived, or had lived long enough to tell what happened him to whoever found him.
“I never injured the man.”