human
Old chap,
gpt
Well?
human
I don't want to worry you, but perhaps it is better for you to know--now. And I wish you wouldn't mention it, because Bob told me once, two years ago, and showed it to me in a sort of burst of confidence.
gpt
Showed you what?
human
Down at the base of his thumb, Bob Vining's got _the murderer's cross_!
gpt
Nonsense!
human
It's a fact! The little mark is there, clear as if it had been drawn in with a knife! said Mr. Boller.
gpt
And for another fact--I don't know whether you know this or not, but virtually every murderer who has been executed in the last twenty years in this State, has shown that cross in some form and----