As for you, Elmer Bliss, I can but compliment yon
upon your success. You are a worthy son of a noble
father. You did your duty, even toward me who de-
served no consideration, and as a last favor I ask you
to deposit to your account, as soon as possible, the check
for $20,000 made to you and lying in trust in the Gar-
field Bank.
As I have said once before in a letter which you may
not have credited, and as I have just said again in the
public note to you lying here, I did not kill James
Arms. Much as he deserved it I am thankful that I
can go out as I should go, like a burned candle, without
that extra crime upon my soul.
And now? Now I am Bichard La Gour. Bemember
only that, please — Bichard La Cour, homeless, friend-
less, without means, the slayer of Peter Somhers. The
" estimable Peter Somhers ! ** For 6od*s sake never let
the truth be known. I beg it. I who have never begged
before — little as I deserve consideration — I beg it 1 I
who must pay the penalty for my evil in a murderer's
grave away from Adelaide and little Boland ! A mur-
derer's grave for all eternity !

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