You forget, also, that you have just told me that you have already broken your pledge--under circumstances, it is true, that do you honor--and that now your desperate attempts to retrieve it have failed.

Now, I really see nothing wrong in your telling to a presumptive well-wisher of the girl what you have told to her enemy." There was a dead silence.

The prostrate man uttered a slight groan, as if in pain, and drew up his leg to change his position.

After a pause, he said, in a restrained voice, "I differ from you, Mr.Hathaway; but enough of this for the present.

I have something else to say.