" Besides, I want to see which one is
going to get that there loaded pill. I always been
intrusted in games of chancet of all kinds, and
when I seen the perfessor was such a sport, I'm
sorry I been misjudging him all this time.
Jane, she looks at the box, and she breathes hard
and quick.
"I won't touch 'em," she says. "I refuse to be
a party to any murder of that kind."
"Huh? You do?" says the perfessor. "But
the time when you might have refused has gone by.
You have made yourself a party to it already.
You're really the MAIN party to it.
"But do as you like," he goes on. "I'm giving
him more chance than I ought to with those pills.
I might shoot him, and I would, and then face the
music, if it wasn't for mixing the children up in
the scandal, Jane. If you want to see him get a
fair chance, Jane, you've got to hand out these
pills, one to him and then one to me. YOU must
kill one or the other of us, or else _I_'LL kill HIM the
other way. And YOU had better pick one out for
him, because _I_ know which is which. Or else let
him pick one out for himself," he says.
Henry, he wasn't saying nothing. I thought
he had fainted. But he hadn't. I seen him licking
his lips. I bet Henry's mouth was all dry inside.
Jane, she took the box and she went round in
front of Henry and she looked at him hard.
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