Revenge and jealousy, handled coolly, mercilessly as weapons--those cost England Texas! She sat, her fan tight at her white teeth.

"It would be death to me if it were known," she said.

But still she pondered, her eye alight with somber fire, her dark cheek red in a woman's anger.
"But it never will be known, my dear lady.

These things, however, must be concluded swiftly.

We have not time to wait.