And if you would pay it, I cannot." "But this is madness!" I exclaimed.

"Your father has no powers over our earth." "I would that I could think so, Humphrey.

I tell you that he has powers and that it is his purpose to use them as he has done before.

You, too, he would use, and me." "And, if so, Yva, we are lords of ourselves.

Let us take each other while we may.