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"
The piling up of fact on fact, mystifying as it was to me who had
as yet no inkling of what it was tending toward, proved too much
for the woman who knew the truth, yet did not know how much
Kennedy knew of it. Minna Pitts was pacing the floor wildly, all
the assumed manner of the actress gone from her, yet with the
native grace and feeling of the born actress playing unrestrained
in her actions.
"You know only part of my story," she cried, fixing him with her
now tearless eyes. "It is only a question of time when you will
worm it all out by your uncanny, occult methods. Mr. Kennedy, I
cast myself on you."


X
THE TOXIN OF DEATH

The note of appeal in her tone was powerful, but I could not so
readily shake off my first suspicions of the woman. Whether or not
she convinced Kennedy, he did not show.
"I was only a young girl when I met Mr. Thornton," she raced on.
"I was not yet eighteen when we were married. Too late, I found
out the curse of his life--and of mine. He was a drug fiend.


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