He had so flagrantly insulted her that she could no longer bear to breathe the same air with him.

She had told her parents all.

She had left Quien Sabe--had left him for good, at the very moment when he believed he had won her.

Brute, beast that he was, he had driven her away.
An hour went by; then two, then four, then six.

Annixter still sat in his place, groping and battling in a confusion of spirit, the like of which he had never felt before.