My wife would not forgive me--would not speak to me, an' her people backed her up.

I made the great mistake to take her father an' other brothers to belong to the same brand as Spencer.

In this I wronged them an' her.
"What I did to them, Belllounds, is one story I'll never tell to any man who might live to repeat it.

But it drove my wife near crazy.

An' it made me Hell-Bent Wade!...