If she don't know already what I
did to her, I'm going to tell her myself. If I get a chance to see my
girl, I'm going to tell her just what I did to her mother."
"Braddock, you must listen to reason!" cried David. "No good can come
of this. They are happy and contented. Don't spoil it all for them. Go
away, man. Try to forget your grievance against Colonel Grand. God
will punish him and--"
"I'll tell you what I came here for to-day, Jenison," said Braddock
levelly. "Dick says you're still crazy about my--about Christine. He
swears you haven't seen her in five years--some kind of a promise my
wife made, he says. I came to ask you this question: will it make any
difference in your intentions regarding her if I--if her father should
happen to end his life on the scaffold? I don't say feelings, mind
you,--I said intentions."
"I mean it. Would you still want her if--if it turned out that way?"
David looked helplessly from Joey to Ruby and then at the set,
emotionless face of the questioner.
"Braddock, I can tell you this from my soul: nothing you may do will
alter my feelings or my intentions.
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