a bullet straight to her lover's heart.
Yes, I have committed a crime, but I feel that I am less criminal
than those two whom I judged and condemned, and whose sentence I
carried out as I now shall carry out my own sentence with a hand
which will not tremble. That I can do this myself, I have you to
thank for, you who can look into the souls of men and recognise
the most hidden motives, you who have not only a wonderful brain
but a heart that can feel. You, I hope, will sometimes think
kindly of your grateful

LEO KNIEPP.

Muller kept this letter as one of his most sacred treasures.

The "Kniepp Case" was really, as Bauer had predicted, the last in
Muller's public career. Even the friendliness of the kind old chief
could not keep him in his position after this new display of the
unreliability of his heart. But his quiet tastes allowed him to live in
humble comfort from the income of his little fortune.

Every now and then letters or telegrams will come for him and he will
disappear for several days. His few friends believe that the police
authorities, who refused to employ him publicly owing to his strange
weakness, cannot resist a private appeal to his talent whenever a
particularly difficult case arises.

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