And so strongly did I see it, that when you appeared my mind was blank to all save the solitary wail, _Oh, the pity of it_! _The pity of it_! And she is a woman, even as I, and I doubt not that we are very much alike.

Why, she even quoted Browning--" "And last week," he cut her short, "in a single sitting, she gambled away thirty thousand of Jack Dorsey's dust,--Dorsey, with two mortgages already on his dump! They found him in the snow next morning, with one chamber empty in his revolver." Frona made no reply, but, walking over to the candle, deliberately thrust her finger into the flame.

Then she held it up to Corliss that he might see the outraged skin, red and angry.
"And so I point the parable.

The fire is very good, but I misuse it, and I am punished." "You forget," he objected.

"The fire works in blind obedience to natural law.