![]() ![]() ![]() "Look here," he said, "I'm unpredjudiced and quite calm, but isn't the `mother's maid' rather piling it on?" ![]() "Just as I was thinking up a name to send it to," I explained, "Hannah-that's mother's maid, you know-brought in some hot milk and some malted milk tablets, and I took the name from them." "Malted milk tablets!" he said, looking bewildered. So I made up a name from some malted milk tablets-" "I wrote a love letter" I explained, feeling rather cheered, "but it was not intended for any one, Do you see? It was just a love letter." I intend," he said, "to be judgdicial, unimpassioned, and quite fair." You look so young, so new to Crime! Even your excuse for being here is so naive, that I-won't you tell me why you wrote a love letter, if you are not in love? And whom you sent it to? That's important, you see, as it bears on the case. "I'd rather NOT arrest you, if we can find a way out. If you are going to arrest me, get it over." “Oh, stop talking," I cried, in a hunted tone. ![]()
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