THE GOOD CAUSE "Why can't you leave me alone?
What do you want with me ?" Half-sullenly, half-aggressively, Guy Ranger flung the questions, standing with lowering brow before his captor.

His head was down and his eyes raised with a peculiar, brutish expression.

He had the appearance of a wild animal momentarily cowed, but preparing for furious battle.

The smouldering of his look was terrible.
Burke Ranger met it with steely self-restraint.

"I'll tell you presently," he said.
"You'll tell me now!" Fiercely the younger man made rejoinder.
His power of resistance was growing, swiftly swallowing all sense of expediency.