Storri himself did not care to push for extremes.

In his vain egotism, which was like a madness, he would not have scrupled to brand Mr.Harley as a forger had he been defied.

But such a step was not what Storri aimed at.

It was his own possession of Dorothy rather than a vengeance upon Mr.Harley that he sought to compass.

Therefore, as Storri made plain his power and threatened its exercise, he considered Mr.Harley with the narrow intentness of a lynx.