Excerpt from The Intruder: A NovelShould I go before the judge and say: "I have committed a crime. He would not be dead if I had not killed him. It it I, Tullio Hermil, who am his assassin. I premeditated that assassination in my house. I committed it with perfect lucidity of conscience, methodically, in all security. And I have gone on living in my house with my secret for a whole year, until to-day. To-day is the anniversary. I deliver myself into your hands. Listen to me, judge me."Can I go before the judge? Can I speak to him like that?I cannot, and I will not. The justice of men does not reach as far as me. There is no tribunal on earth competent to judge me.And yet I feel a desire to accuse myself, to confess. I feel a desire to reveal my secret to someone.To whom?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.