He was wondering what was the effect upon her of this climax of his revelation, when she whispered: "Do you suppose--I can speak--to my father ?" "Of course.

He likes all young women.

And I told you that he and I were close friends." "Then--come on." She arose, clinging to him, and drew him after her.
Halfway to Joe she breathed: "You please say something first.

Anything." He recognized this as the appeal of one whose faculties were reeling.
There had never been any attempt here at Cedar Crest to conceal Joe Ellison's past, and in Larry's case there had been only such concealment as might help his evasion of his dangers.

And so Larry remarked as Joe Ellison took his wide hat off his white hair and stood bareheaded before them: "Joe, Miss Cameron knows who I really am, and about my having been in Sing Sing; and I've just told her about our having been friends there.
Also I told her about your having a daughter.