And now she was doomed to be the deluded prey of a vulgar money conspiracy--sold, body and soul.
He groaned as he thought of the deliberate sacrifice of the girl's glorious young womanhood to the vicious ambitions of her father's mad race for wealth and power.
"Shall I warn her ?" he bitterly mused.

And then all his manhood rose up against discovering a father's shame.

"Never!" he cried.

"I have eaten his bread and salt.

My quarrel is with him alone! Ferris is to be the coming bridegroom.