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As they stepped quickly along in the dark, they tried to piece together the chronology of the late afternoon for Knapp and decided that this tragic ending to his feeble life must have come even before he could have seen his wife to tell her of his dismissal from the store. "I'm so glad of that! " said Nell Willing, softly. "Now she need never know."
Her husband gave a hearty inward assent. It was the devil anyhow to be so intimately concerned in other people's lives as an employer was.