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China recently launched a hypersonic nuclear missile around the world⦠[USA Insider News]( [China recently launched a hypersonic nuclear missile around the worldâ¦]( [Arrow]( âOf course I refuse. I will have absolutely nothing to do with it. I donât care what shame comes on you. You deserve it all. I should not be sorry to see you disgraced, publicly disgraced. How dare you ask me, of all men in the world, to mix myself up in this horror? I should have thought you knew more about peopleâs characters. Your friend Lord Henry Wotton canât have taught you much about psychology, whatever else he has taught you. Nothing will induce me to stir a step to help you. You have come to the wrong man. Go to some of your friends. Donât come to me.â âAlan, it was murder. I killed him. You donât know what he had made me suffer. Whatever my life is, he had more to do with the making or the marring of it than poor Harry has had. He may not have intended it, the result was the same.â âMurder! Good God, Dorian, is that what you have come to? I shall not inform upon you. It is not my business. Besides, without my stirring in the matter, you are certain to be arrested. Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid. But I will have nothing to do with it.â âYou must have something to do with it. Wait, wait a moment; listen to me. Only listen, Alan. All I ask of you is to perform a certain scientific experiment. You go to hospitals and dead-houses, and the horrors that you do there donât affect you. If in some hideous dissecting-room or fetid laboratory you found this man lying on a leaden table with red gutters scooped out in it for the blood to flow through, you would simply look upon him as an admirable subject. You would not turn a hair. You would not believe that you were doing anything wrong. On the contrary, you would probably feel that you were benefiting the human race, or increasing the sum of knowledge in the world, or gratifying intellectual curiosity, or something of that kind. What I want you to do is merely what you have often done before. Indeed, to destroy a body must be far less horrible than what you are accustomed to work at. And, remember, it is the only piece of evidence against me. If it is discovered, I am lost; and it is sure to be discovered unless you help me.â âI have no desire to help you. You forget that. I am simply indifferent to the whole thing. It has nothing to do with me.â âAlan, I entreat you. Think of the position I am in. Just before you came I almost fainted with terror. You may know terror yourself some day. No! donât think of that. Look at the matter purely from the scientific point of view. You donât inquire where the dead things on which you experiment come from. Donât inquire now. I have told you too much as it is. But I beg of you to do this. We were friends once, Alan.â âDonât speak about those days, Dorianâthey are dead.â âThe dead linger sometimes. The man upstairs will not go away. He is sitting at the table with bowed head and outstretched arms. Alan! Alan! If you donât come to my assistance, I am ruined. Why, they will hang me, Alan! Donât you understand? They will hang me for what I have done.â âThere is no good in prolonging this scene. I absolutely refuse to do anything in the matter. It is insane of you to ask me.â âYou refuse?â âYes.â âI entreat you, Alan.â âIt is useless.â This is beyond crazy. And a big threat to America. [How did Biden respond to it?]( âYesâHarden. You must go down to Richmond at once, see Harden personally, and tell him to send twice as many orchids as I ordered, and to have as few white ones as possible. In fact, I donât want any white ones. It is a lovely day, Francis, and Richmond is a very pretty placeâotherwise I wouldnât bother you about it.â âNo trouble, sir. At what time shall I be back?â Dorian looked at Campbell. âHow long will your experiment take, Alan?â he said in a calm indifferent voice. The presence of a third person in the room seemed to give him extraordinary courage. Campbell frowned and bit his lip. âIt will take about five hours,â he answered. âIt will be time enough, then, if you are back at half-past seven, Francis. Or stay: just leave my things out for dressing. You can have the evening to yourself. I am not dining at home, so I shall not want you.â âThank you, sir,â said the man, leaving the room. âNow, Alan, there is not a moment to be lost. How heavy this chest is! Iâll take it for you. You bring the other things.â He spoke rapidly and in an authoritative manner. Campbell felt dominated by him. They left the room together. When they reached the top landing, Dorian took out the key and turned it in the lock. Then he stopped, and a troubled look came into his eyes. He shuddered. âI donât think I can go in, Alan,â he murmured. âIt is nothing to me. I donât require you,â said Campbell coldly. Dorian half opened the door. As he did so, he saw the face of his portrait leering in the sunlight. On the floor in front of it the torn curtain was lying. He remembered that the night before he had forgotten, for the first time in his life, to hide the fatal canvas, and was about to rush forward, when he drew back with a shudder. What was that loathsome red dew that gleamed, wet and glistening, on one of the hands, as though the canvas had sweated blood? How horrible it was!âmore horrible, it seemed to him for the moment, than the silent thing that he knew was stretched across the table, the thing whose grotesque misshapen shadow on the spotted carpet showed him that it had not stirred, but was still there, as he had left it. He heaved a deep breath, opened the door a little wider, and with half-closed eyes and averted head, walked quickly in, determined that he would not look even once upon the dead man. Then, stooping down and taking up the gold-and-purple hanging, he flung it right over the picture. There he stopped, feeling afraid to turn round, and his eyes fixed themselves on the intricacies of the pattern before him. He heard Campbell bringing in the heavy chest, and the irons, and the other things that he had required for his dreadful work. He began to wonder if he and Basil Hallward had ever met, and, if so, what they had thought of each other. When the half-hour struck, he passed his hand across his forehead, and then got up hastily and dressed himself with even more than his usual care, giving a good deal of attention to the choice of his necktie and scarf-pin and changing his rings more than once. He spent a long time also over breakfast, tasting the various dishes, talking to his valet about some new liveries that he was thinking of getting made for the servants at Selby, and going through his correspondence. At some of the letters, he smiled. Three of them bored him. One he read several times over and then tore up with a slight look of annoyance in his face. âThat awful thing, a womanâs memory!â as Lord Henry had once said. After he had drunk his cup of black coffee, he wiped his lips slowly with a napkin, motioned to his servant to wait, and going over to the table, sat down and wrote two letters. One he put in his pocket, the other he handed to the valet. âTake this round to 152, Hertford Street, Francis, and if Mr. Campbell is out of town, get his address.â As soon as he was alone, he lit a cigarette and began sketching upon a piece of paper, drawing first flowers and bits of architecture, and then human faces. Suddenly he remarked that every face that he drew seemed to have a fantastic likeness to Basil Hallward. He frowned, and getting up, went over to the book-case and took out a volume at hazard. He was determined that he would not think about what had happened until it became absolutely necessary that he should do so. [--------------] At times, our affiliate partners reach out to the Editors at USA Insider News with special opportunities for our readers. The message above is one we think you should take a close, serious look at. [--------------][--------------] You are receiving our newsletter because you opted-in for it on one of our sister websites. 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