Everything was at stake now, she felt, for she loved Badger with an absorbing love.
"You have simply been deceived, father," she insisted.

"I know it.

Like many Yale men, Buck has been a little wild at times.

He knows it and acknowledges it But as for that night and that excursion, that isn't true, I don't care who told you.

Buck has a good many enemies, and some of them have come to you with this story.