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264 THE CONFESSION OF A FOOL
playing with my penholder, in a state of intense agitation,
without making- a sound, only giving vent occasionally to
a short exclamation.
I went out for a walk and then played a game of
billiards. When I returned, after a couple of hours, I
found her still sitting in the same place, motionless, like
a statue.
She roused herself when she heard my footsteps.
"You were setting a trap for me! " she exclaimed.
"Not at all ! Do you think I want to lose the mother
of my children for ever?
"
" I consider you capable of anything. You want to
be rid of me ; you made an attempt some time ago when
you introduced a certain friend of yours to me." She
mentioned a name which had never before been mentioned
in this connection. "You hoped that I should betray
you with him, didn’t you? "
"Who told you that?"
"Helga! "
"Helga?"
She was Marie’s last "friend " before we left Sweden.
The revenge of the Lesbian !
" And you believed her? "
"Of course I did. . . . But I deceived you both, him
and you !
"
" You mean there was a third?
"
"I didn’t say so !
"
" But you just confessed it ! Since you deceived both
of us, you must have deceived me ! That is a logical
conclusion."
She fought my arguments desperately, and demanded
that I should prove them.
"Prove them ! . . ."
Her treachery, surpassing the lowest depths of degrada-
tion of which I held a human heart capable, weighed on
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