But I told father that the same fellow who gave him the information against you in the first place must have hired Connelly to say that.

A man who will sell liquor will lie, you know, Buck!" Badger was violently trembling, but Winnie, in the ecstatic joy of meeting him, did not notice it.

There was a tempest in the Kansan's soul.

Winnie's sweet and trusting faith in him filled him with an anguishing shame.

Could he tell her now that he was drunk that night--that all the things said against him by Connelly and that unknown informant were true?
Would she not turn against him if he did?
Would she not despise him?
Would not her love be obliterated?
Badger felt as if the ground were reeling under his feet.
Once he was about to give away to the evil impulses that were fighting against him.