52/52 I'll save you if you give up the girl. Once more, Buster Jack--try an' make me believe you'll square the deal." Belllounds had lost his voice. But his mute, fluttering lips were infinite proof of the vow he could not speak. The boyishness, the stunted moral force, replaced the manhood in him then. He was only a factor in the lives of others, protected even from this Nemesis by the greatness of his father's love. |