In view of all I decided openly to cast my fortunes with the man, and appear angry at the deceit with which she had ensnared me.

I dreaded the result, the expression my apparent desertion would bring to her face, but this seemed the only was possible for me to unmask the fellow.

He had clearly enough catalogued me in his own class, as one who would serve any master for sufficient reward.

Very well, let him so continue to think, until I could turn the tables, and pay him back in his own coin.

And the quickest way in which to convince him that I was altogether his man, was to denounce the girl in his presence, and frankly avow myself on his side.