The sunken eyes were upon him. "Why do you say that?"

"You are an honest man."

The sunken eyes wavered. "At least I never supposed they would arrest

Lennox. How could I?"

"No one could have supposed it. Besides, in your own conscience you were

justified, were you not?"

"You know about that, too?"

"Yes, I know about that."

The Rigoletto disc now had been replaced by another, one from which a

voice brayed, a voice nasal, jocular, felonious.

"That beast ought to be shot," Jones added.

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