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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: letters, would seem to prove beyond question. Had Aubert
consented to return them, would he have saved his life? It seems
probable. As it was, he was doomed. Fenayrou hated him. They
had had a row on a race-course, in the course of which Aubert had
humiliated his former master. More than this, Aubert had boasted
openly of his relations with Mme. Fenayrou, and the fact had
reached the ears of the husband. Fenayrou believed also, though
erroneously, that Aubert had informed against him in the matter
of the table-water fraud. Whether his knowledge of Aubert's
relations with his wife was recent or of long standing, he had
other grounds of hate against his former pupil. He himself had
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