7/26 I let you live--and have a fam'ly. And it's you who have given me the Big Idea, Mrs.Captain Kidd. You sure have! You've told me I've got a right to have a nest of my own, and I'm going to have it--an' in that nest is going to be the sweetest, prettiest little angel that God Almighty ever forgot to make into a flower! Yessir. And if the law comes--" And then, suddenly, the vision clouded, and there came into Jolly Roger's face the look of a man who knew--when he stood the truth out naked--that he was facing a world with his back to the wall. |