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He took his hands out of his pocket, dragged the cap down on his head and

stuck theo

out into a great wind "But not so low as to put up with this disgrace,

to see her, fast in this fellow's clutches, without doing sohtened? Silly? I had to think of soet her out of this Did you think she cared for hiht so? No! She pretended it was for my sake She

couldn't understand that if I hadn't been an old o As it was I was teh! Any man but this And all the ti to me It was their plot, their conspiracy! These

conspiracies are the devil She has been leading me on, till she has

fairly put my head under the heel of that jailer, of that scoundrel, of

her husbandTreachery! Bringing me loer than herself In

the dirt That's what it means Doesn't it? Under his heel!"

He paused in his restless shuffle and again, seizing his cap with both

hands, dragged it furiously right down on his ears Powell had lost

hi at that old

feverish face when, suddenly, quick as lightning, Mr Slass and with a stifled, hurried exclamation,