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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: consisted of a number of calling cards and photographs, some of
them alleged to be in the handwriting of Mrs. Dyson, and showing
her intimacy with Peace. The man made what purported to be a
confession to Mr. Newman. Dyson, he said, had become jealous of
him, whereupon Peace had suggested to Mrs. Dyson that they should
give her husband something to be jealous about. Out of this
proposal their intimacy had sprung. Peace spoke of Mrs. Dyson in
terms of forgiveness, but his wrath against Dyson was extreme.
He complained bitterly that by taking proceedings against him,
Dyson had driven him to break up his home and become a fugitive
in the land. He should follow the Dysons, he said, wherever they
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