The things we do!

"If I see her again," he said, "I shall have to kill some one, even if
it is only myself."
I heard him tossing in his bed all night, and when morning came he
arose looking haggard enough, but with his determination to run away
and see Mary no more, stronger than ever upon him.
But providence, or fate, or some one, ordered it differently, and
there was plenty of trouble ahead.


_CHAPTER VIII_
_The Trouble in Billingsgate Ward_

About a week after Brandon's memorable interview with Mary an incident
occurred which changed everything and came very near terminating his
career in the flower of youth. It also brought about a situation of
affairs that showed the difference in the quality of these two persons
thrown so marvelously together from their far distant stations at each
end of the ladder of fortune, in a way that reflected very little
credit upon the one from the upper end. But before I tell you of that
I will relate briefly one or two other matters that had a bearing upon
what was done, and the motives prompting it.


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