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"Alan, it was murder. I killed him. You don't know what he had

made me suffer. Whatever my life is, he had more to do with the

making or the marring of it than poor Harry has had. He may not

have intended it, the result was the same."

"Murder! Good God, Dorian, is that what you have come to? I shall

not inform upon you. It is not my business. Besides, without my

stirring in the matter, you are certain to be arrested. Nobody

ever commits a crime without doing something stupid. But I will

have nothing to do with it."