As they rested on Rushbrook they quivered slightly.

"I can already bear witness," she said coldly, "to the generosity of Mr.Rushbrook in a matter which then touched me.

But there certainly is no necessity for him to show it now in a matter in which I have not the slightest concern." As she swept out of the room and was received in the respectable shadow of the waiting James, Rushbrook turned to Somers.
"And I'M afraid it won't do--for Leyton saw you," he said curtly.

"Now, then, shut that door, for you and I, Jack Somers, have a word to say to each other." What that word was, and how it was said and received, is not a part of this record.

But it is told that it was the beginning of that mighty Iliad, still remembered of men, which shook the financial camps of San Francisco, and divided them into bitter contending parties.