"I'll have no putting yourself in the wrong to save a man that's given you the go-by.

If ye be fooling me, ye can stop it now if you're a daughter of mine." He shook his head fiercely at her.
But Madelon answered him with a burst of wrath that equalled his own.
"I stabbed him because I took him for the man who jilted me a-trying to kiss me, with Dorothy Fair's kiss on his lips.

_Me!_" she cried; and she raised her hand as if she would have struck again had Burr Gordon and his false lips been there.
Her father looked at her gloomily, then strode on with his eyes on the snowy ground.

He was still in doubt.

David Hautville had that primitive order of mind which distrusts and holds in contempt that which it cannot clearly comprehend, and he could not comprehend womankind.