If he expected her to speak he was again disappointed.
"If I could explain you--I'd do it, but I don't see how I could. How can I? Suggest an explanation."
"You won't kill me; you dare not. You only killed your uncle because you thought you wouldn't be found out."
"You think that was the only reason? You don't think that I had a choice of evils, and that I merely chose what seemed to be the lesser?"
"I wonder why you killed him?"
"In your case you wouldn't wonder?"
"Was it because of Miss Patterson?"
"As how?"
"Because you've treated her as you've treated me, and her father found out. If I thought--if I thought---- Take that paper and write on it what I told you--now! now! now!"
"And if I don't?"