But wait; why should he suffer pain for somebody’s gain? Punishment is meted out to those who deserve it, the wrong doers. He had kept and honored his side of the bargain by acting faithfully during their marriage, but not his wife who had decided to dishonor it. She got what was coming to her. In that moment the long pent-up bitter suspicions took charge of him and transformed the suicidal motivations into homicidal intentions. ‘Pretty’s sin deserves the death penalty,’ he kept on intoning. But where was she? And even if he got to her how was he going to inflict his intended punishment?
‘I will see what to do when I find her,’ he told himself. ‘First of all let us find her.’
It took Fred slightly over forty minutes to locate his wife. A family friend whom he had tasked with his secret
