To attempt to portray the fury, the indignation, and the thirst to be avenged upon this fiend who had attempted to murder her and her lover, and had bought her dear sister's honour at the price of their innocent old uncle's life, would be impossible.

Her weariness had left her; she was mad with all she had seen and heard, with the knowledge of what had been done and of what was about to be done.

She even forgot her passion in it, and swore that Muller should never marry Bessie while she lived to prevent it.

Had she been a bad woman herein she might have seen an opportunity, for Bessie once tied to Muller, John would be free to marry her, but this idea never even entered her mind.

Whatever Jess's errors may have been she was a self-sacrificing, honourable woman, and one who would have died rather than profit thus by circumstance.