Albrecht has not even spoken about any pay to me since I joined the company; and when I learned he had deliberately left us stalled here, my first thought was of your unpleasant situation if my suspicions proved true." "If they were, what is there you can do ?" "The hotel clerk says it is possible to reach the Junction on horseback before any trains leave there on the main line.

I propose to make him disgorge, but I must know first exactly how things stand.

Have you any money ?" She stood gazing at him, her anger, shame, all forgotten in the fascination of Winston's determined face.

For the first time she thoroughly comprehended the cool, compelling power of this man, and it mastered her completely.

She felt no longer the slightest doubt of what he purposed doing, and her woman heart swelled responsively to his masculine strength.
"I--I have n't got a dollar," she confessed simply, her lashes drooping over her lowered eyes.
"What does that fellow owe you ?" "Two hundred and sixty dollars; he has merely dribbled out what little I have been actually compelled to ask for." A moment he remained standing there, breathing hard.