Is the tale true ?" Hampton laughed unpleasantly, his eyes grown hard and ugly.
"I presume it must be," he admitted, with a quick side glance toward the closed door, "for the girl out yonder thought about the same.

A most excellent reputation to establish with only ten years of strict attendance to business." Wynkoop's grave face expressed his disapproval.
"Well, in my present judgment that report was not altogether true," he went on clearly and with greater confidence.

"I did suppose you exactly that sort of a man when I first came into this room.

I have not believed so, however, for a single moment since.

Nevertheless, the naked truth is certainly bad enough, without any necessity for our resorting to romance.