The Man of Last Resort; Or, the Clients of Randolph Mason
The Man of Last Resort; Or, the Clients of Randolph Mason
Post Melville Davisson
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I don't believe any of the bosh about murder crying from the ground, but I am entirely convinced that it is almost impossible to cover a crime so that human in- 1 78 The Man of Last Resort. genuity cannot trail down the man who com- mitted it. " I judge that I was not intended for busi- ness of this sort. I cannot fight out in good order. With me a retreat is a rout. I have abandoned everything. I have thrown away every plan. I am trying now to save myself from the hangman, or at least the peni...tentiary. I have not waited to be caught ; I have come to you at once." The man seemed to relax and settle back in his chair. '* Now," he added, with the utter depend- ence of a patient stretched upon the table of the surgeon, " you must save me." The eyes of Randolph Mason flattened as though they were being pressed down from above, and the lines of his face deepened and widened into rugged furrows. " There are two methods pf evading the law," he said. " The escape ipso Jure planned before the fact ; and the escape ipso Jure after the fact.
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