It's a chance for you, Kid, and there is n't a bit of a show in the kind of a life I lead.

I never have been in love with it myself, and only took to it in the first place because the devil happened to drive me that way.

The Lord knows I don't want to lead any one else through such a muck.

So it is a try ?" The look of defiance faded slowly out of her face as she stood gravely regarding him.

The man was in deadly earnest, and she felt the quiet insistence of his manner.