"Then use mine--so you'll have evidence that I'm not married. Use mine, if that's the kind of a man you are--so you can go back and tell them--back home--that I--I--" The last bond had snapped. She caught at him with clawing hands, her eyes wild, her teeth showing from behind tightly drawn lips. "Torture me--that's it--torture me! At least, I didn't do that to you! I told you that I believed in you--at least that cheered you up when you needed it--I didn't tell you that I believed you guilty. Did I? I didn't continually ask you for the name of the man you'd killed? Oh, there were other things--I know there were other things--" the lips seemed to fairly stream words, "but at least, I didn't torture you. I--I--" Then she halted, for the briefest part of a moment, to become suddenly madly cajoling, crazily cunning: "Listen, Barry, listen to me. You want to know things. I can tell them to you--oh, so many of them. I'll tell them too--if you'll only do this for me. It's my baby--my baby. Don't you know what that means? Won't you promise for me? Take her to a priest--please, Barry--for what you once thought I was? Won't you, Barry? Haven't I had punishment enough? Did you ever lie all day and listen to the wind shriek, waiting for somebody who didn't come--with your dead baby in your arms? Do you want to punish me more? Do you want me to die too--or do you want me to live and tell you why I did the things I did? Do you? Do you want to know who was back of everything? I didn't do it for myself, Barry. It was some one else--I'll help you, Barry, honestly I'll help you." "About the murder?" Houston was leaning forward now, tense, hopeful. But the woman shook her head. "No--I don't know about that. Maybe you did it--I can't say. It's about other things--the lease, and the contract. I'll help you about that--if you'll help me. Take my baby--" "And keep your secret, Agnes? Is that it?" "Will you?" The woman's eyes were gleaming strangely. "My mother doesn't know. She's old--you know her, Barry. She thinks I'm--what I should have been. That's why I came back out here. I--I--"