"Now, you say you were in such a hurry to get this medicine for your
wife that you cut the rope, thus cutting your wrist."
"Yes. I have the scar still."
"You could not wait to untie the boat, and yet you went along the
river-front to see how high the water was?"
"Her alarm had excited me. But when I got out, and remembered that
the doctors had told us she would never die in an attack, I grew more
composed."
"You got the medicine first, you say?"
"Yes."
"Mr. Alexander has testified that you got the medicine at
three-thirty. It has been shown that you left the house at two, and
got back about four. Does not this show that with all your alarm you
went to the river-front first?"
"I was gone from two to four," he replied calmly. "Mr. Alexander must
be wrong about the time I wakened him. I got the medicine first."
"When your wife left you at the bridge, did she say where she was
going?"
"No."
"You claim that this woman at Horner was your wife?"
"I think it likely."
"Was there an onyx clock in the second-story room when you moved into
it?"
"I do not recall the clock.
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