The lust of hate Author:Guy Newell Boothby, Guy Newell Boothby, Guy Newell Boothby, Guy Newell Boothby, Guy Newell Boothby Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the neighbourhood, or of someone coming round the corner before you have quite finished. A railway train has been tried repeatedly, but never with success ; f... more »or there is an increased difficulty in getting rid of the body, while porters and ticket collectors have a peculiar memory for faces, and history shows that whatever care you may take you are bound to be discovered sooner or later. In his own house the man is as secure, or more so, than he would be in the Tower of London; and even if you did manage to reach him there, the betting would be something like a million to one that you would be detected. No; none of these things are worthy of our consideration. I came to this conclusion hi another and similar case in which my assistance was invoked three months ago. If one wants to succeed in murder, as in anything else, one must endeavour to be original." " For heaven's sake, man, choose your words less carefully! " I cried, with a sudden fierceness for which I could not afterwards account. "You talk as if we were discussing an ordinary business transaction." " And are we not ? " he replied calmly, paying no attention to my outburst of temper. " I am inclined to think we are. You desire to revenge yourself upon a man who has wronged you. For a consideration I find you the means of doing it. You want—I supply. Surely supply and demand constitute the component parts of an ordinary business transaction ? " " You said nothing just now about a consideration. What is it to be ? " " We will discuss that directly." " No, not directly. Now! I must know everything before I hear more of your plans." "By all means let us discuss it then. Properly speaking, I suppose I should demand your soul as my price, and write the bond with a pen dipped in your blood. But, though you m...« less