Some one has worked upon you.

I will make Arthur tell me all." It was only after a positive refusal to take Alice on to Cheyenne that the old capitalist left the lonely heiress sobbing in a wild grief.
And but twenty-four hours later the open switch left unguarded by a drunken laborer had sent a thundering special crashing into Hugh Worthington's special car.
Strangers had tenderly lifted his bruised and bleeding body; but no one but the mourning girl had heard the awful confession of those early morning hours at Pasco.
Alice Worthington shuddered as the dying man gasped out his fateful words, driven on by a self-torment which was a living hell.

The millionaire faltered out the shameful discovery of Randall Clayton's vast birthright.
"I was forced to take advantage of Everett Clayton in the panic days when we separated.

It was his ruin or mine.

It was only after I had nurtured and educated Randall that I found the forgotten land had leaped into a priceless estate.