"Look here, Teresa! Without knowing it, you lifted me out of hell just now, and because of the wrong I might have done her--for HER sake, I spare you and shirk my duty." "For her sake!" gasped the woman--"for her sake! Oh, yes! Go on." "Well," said Dunn gloomily, "I reckon perhaps you'd as lieve left me in hell, for all the love you bear me.

And may be you've grudge enough agin me still to wish I'd found her and him together." "You think so ?" she said, turning her head away.
"There, d--n it! I didn't mean to make you cry.

May be you wouldn't, then.

Only tell that fellow to take you out of this, and not run away the next time he sees a man coming." "He didn't run," said Teresa, with flashing eyes.

"I--I--I sent him away," she stammered.