The things we do!

I rule out there, over
free and thrall. There's where you're going. Your other jailer
told you the truth!"
She looked at him slowly and fully now, the color fading from her
face. Her soul had touched the steel in his own soul. She knew
that, once aroused, this man would hesitate at nothing. Crowded
beyond his limit, there was no measure he would not employ. Other
means must be employed with such a nature as his. She temporized.
"Listen. You are a man of family and traditions,--my late guardian
told me. You have been chosen to a position of trust, you are one
of the lawmakers of your own state. Do you ever stop to reflect
what you are doing, how you are abandoning yourself, your own
traditions, your own duties, when you speak as you have been
speaking to me? I had committed no crime. I am held by no process
of law. You take risks."
"I know. I have thrown it all away in the balance. If these
things were known, I would be ruined." He spoke dully and evenly,
indifferently.


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