We have deceived your father, but he will forgive that, won't you ?" she said, appealing to Ryder, "and you will go to Washington, you will save my father's honour, his life, you will-- ?" They stood face to face--this slim, delicate girl battling for her father's life, arrayed against a cold-blooded, heartless, unscrupulous man, deaf to every impulse of human sympathy or pity.
Since this woman had deceived him, fooled him, he would deal with her as with everyone else who crossed his will.

She laid her hand on his arm, pleading with him.

Brutally, savagely, he thrust her aside.
"No, no, I will not!" he thundered.

"You have wormed yourself into my confidence by means of lies and deceit.

You have tricked me, fooled me to the very limit! Oh, it is easy to see how you have beguiled my son into the folly of loving you! And you--you have the brazen effrontery to ask me to plead for your father?
No! No! No! Let the law take its course, and now Miss Rossmore--you will please leave my house to-morrow morning!" Shirley stood listening to what he had to say, her face white, her mouth quivering.