Fear is many-eyed and sees horrors where normal vision only sees the ridiculous." "Is that your creed ?" she asked quietly.
"Part of it, Miss Holland," he smiled.
She played idly with the letter she held in her hand, balancing it on the edge of the desk, her eyes downcast.
"What would justify the use of such an awful weapon ?" she asked.
"It is amply justified to secure an end," he said blandly.

"For example--I want something--I cannot obtain that something through the ordinary channel or by the employment of ordinary means.

It is essential to me, to my happiness, to my comfort, or my amour-propre, that that something shall be possessed by me.

If I can buy it, well and good.

If I can buy those who can use their influence to secure this thing for me, so much the better.