Justice by John Galsworthy
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FALDER. I was haunted. CLEAVER. With the fear of being found out? FALDER. [Very low] Yes. THE JUDGE. Didn't it occur to you that the only thing for you to do was to confess to your employers, and restore the money? FALDER. I was afraid. [There is silence] CLEAVER. You desired, too, no doubt, to complete your design of taking this woman away? FALDER. When I found I'd done a thing like that, to do it for nothing seemed so dreadful. I might just as well have chucked myself into the river. CLEAVER. You knew that the clerk Davis was about to leave England --didn't it occur to you when you altered this cheque that suspicion would fall on him? FALDER. It was all done in a moment. I thought of it afterwards. CLEAVER. And that didn't lead you to avow what you'd done? FALDER. [Sullenly] I meant to write when I got out there--I would have repaid the money. |
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