So even a tough like Alloway can love a woman! "Bland stamped up an' down the room.

He sure was dyin' hard.
"'Jennie,' he said, once more turnin' to her.

'You swear in fear of your life thet you're tellin' truth.

Kate's not in love with Duane?
She's let him come to see you?
There's been nuthin' between them ?' "'No.

I swear,' answered Jennie; an' Bland sat down like a man licked.
"'Go to bed, you white-faced--' Bland choked on some word or other--a bad one, I reckon--an' he positively shook in his chair.
"Jennie went then, an' Kate began to have hysterics.