Should aught befall me, you are my sole heir, and the old matter would go to you.

Punish Hugh, follow up and defeat Ferris, and win my birthright for Francine Delacroix.

Make her your happy wife.

We made a mistake, Jack.

We should have gone West together at once, and faced old Hugh." The young lawyer's eyes were filled with tears as he read the rest of Clayton's statement, evidently prepared to offset any attempt on his life.
But he was ready to battle within the enemy's lines, with a calm and unmoved face, when he met Arthur Ferris at four o'clock.
Witherspoon scarcely recognized the man whom he instinctively felt to be Randall Clayton's murderer.