I would have been here BEFORE and even overtaken you, only you had the better horse and the only saddle." Van Loo recoiled.

But he was now desperate and reckless.

Beckoning Jack out of earshot of the other passengers, he said with tightened lips, "Why do you follow me?
What is your purpose in coming here ?" "I thought," said Hamlin dryly, "that I was to have the pleasure of getting satisfaction from you for the insult you gave me." "Well, and if I apologize for it, what then ?" he said quickly.
Hamlin looked at him quietly.

"Well, I think I also said something about the lady being the wife of a friend of mine." "And I have left her BEHIND.

Her husband can take her back without disgrace, for no one knows of her flight but you and me.