Then--then you made love to me--don't deny it, Jim, for, after all, it was the happiest part of all my life!--and we both saw how wrong we were, and we both wanted to fight for our freedom.

So I followed you when you revolted against MacNutt and his leadership." "No, Frank, it was _you_ who led--if it hadn't been for you there would never have been any revolt!" he broke in.
"We fought together, then, tooth and nail, and in the end we surrendered everything but our own liberty--just to start over with free hands.

But it wasn't our mere escape to freedom that maddened MacNutt; it was the thought that we had beaten him at his own game, that we had stalked him while he was so busy stalking Penfield.

Then he trapped us, for a moment, and it was sheer good luck that he didn't kill me that afternoon in his dismantled operating-room, before Doogan and his men attacked the house.

But, as you know, he kept after us, and he cornered you again, and you would have killed _him_, in turn, if I hadn't saved you from the sin of it, and the disgrace of it.