I ignored the verdict. I addressed the prisoners very severely and
sentenced them to do the Chasm hole from 6.0 a.m. to 6.0 p.m. every
day for a week, to take out cards and play out every stroke. “You,
Winthrop,” I said, “with your gentlemanly cunning, your subtle
pretensions of righteousness----” But there is no space for that....
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As a matter of fact the jury were quite right. In company with a lady
who shall be nameless I did do it. At least, at one time I thought
I did. Only we have proved so often that somebody else did it, we
have shown so conclusively that we can’t have done it, that we find
ourselves wondering if we really did.
Perhaps we didn’t.
If we did we apologize to all concerned--except, of course, to Mr.
Winthrop. I suspect him.