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Larose slept very badly that night. He was worried, and his thoughts would allow him no peace. He was not worried that he had first goaded Mitter to the point of frenzy and then had deliberatedly shot him through the heart, when he might so easily have only wounded him and then handed him over to the authorities.
He was not troubled there, for he knew Mitter was guilty of much more than they would ever have been able to prove, and by himself acting as judge and jury, as he had done, he had punished according to all canons of Justice; whereas Mitter's punishment by law would have certainly fallen far short of his deserts, and undoubtedly have been purged by a term of imprisonment only.