You shall marry her, and then we will all be one family.

Our interests will be the same, and you may be sure that I shall look after them.

Come! Is that not a friendly offer ?" For several minutes Trent smoked furiously, but he did not speak.

At the end of that time he took the revolver once more from the drawer of his writing-table and fingered it.
"Da Souza," he said, "if I had you just for five minutes at Bekwando we would talk together of black-mail, you and I, we would talk of marrying your daughter.

We would talk then to some purpose--you hound! Get out of the room as fast as your legs will carry you.