But this is sheer nonsense.
I have no fear of her.

The woman don't live who would go back on Godfrey Chivers--for a husband! Besides, she went off to see your sister at the convent at Santa Clara as soon as she passed those bonds off on Charley to get rid of! Think of her traveling with that d--d fool lawyer all the way to Stockton, and his bonds (which we had put back in her bag) alongside of them all the time, and he telling her he was going to stop their payment, and giving her the letter to mail for him!--eh?
Well, we'll have time to get rid of her husband before she gets back.

If he don't go easy--well"-- "None of that, Chivers, you understand, once for all!" interrupted Riggs peremptorily.

"If you cannot see that your making away with that woman's husband would damn that boasted reputation you make so much of and set every man's hand against us, I do, and I won't permit it.

It's a rotten business enough,--our coming on him as we have; and if this wasn't the only God-forsaken place where we could divide our stuff without danger and get it away off the highroads, I'd pull up stakes at once." "Let her stay at the convent, then, and be d--d to her," said Chivers roughly.