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"Call the police!" shouted Rigby

"You infernal traitor!" hissed James Bansemer "You claim to be Graydon's friend, and yet you are the one who has led the plot to ruin ; the shaking Cable tightly

There was aof thewide-eyed at his father He saw the cruel, sardonic smile spread over his face and shuddered

"I've simply come to take you out of the clutches of these people I've waited to see if that sche woman, up there would tell you of her own accord She hasn't told you; so I will You cannot hty Jane Cable is a child of shame, picked up on a doorstep, cast off by the woman who conceived her!"

The crash had coic player in the centre of his stage, pouring out his poison without a touch of pity for the stricken girl who, after the first thrill of indignation and horror, had shrunk back into her mother's arhed Bansemer, at the end of his tirade "It isn't a criminal offence to tell the truth It will sound just as well in court, Mr Rigby"

"Jane, Jane," Mrs Cable was ht have saved you all this, but I couldn't--oh, I couldn't pay the price"

"You snake!" groaned Cable, weak and hoarse with rage "Jane, he has lied! There is not a word of truth in what he says I swear it to you"

"Ho, ho! By Heaven, she hasn't told you, after all!" cried Bansemer "You still think she is yours!"

"Father!" exclaiht before the other David Cable had dropped limply into a chair, his hand to his heart "I won't stand by and hear you any longer Take back what you've said about her, or, daet that you areback, his expression changing like a flash The set I--I a this for your sake My God, boy, you don't understand Don't turn froh, father! Don't say another word! You've talked like a ht of the girl on the landing and rushed up to her

"Is it true, Graydon--is it true?" she wailed, beating her hands upon his arone mad, dearest"