I suggest that you now proceed with the matters in hand." "One word!" cried Ferris, leaping to his wife's side, and seizing her wrists.

"Do you confirm this outrage ?" "I do," suddenly cried the weeping girl, springing up and facing him with a defiant brow.
"What have you done with my brother?
Where is the man whom you falsely accused of leading a vile life?
You poisoned my father's mind against Randall.

He has been led away and killed among you." "Before God, I know nothing of his fate!" stammered Arthur Ferris, in despair.
"Then prove your innocence!" cried Alice Worthington, her lovely face lit with the anger of an avenging angel.

"There is a gulf between us which will never be crossed, so help me, God!" The girl fell back, weeping, in the arms of Warner, while Boardman sternly seized the trembling Ferris.

"Another such outbreak and you can say adieu forever to the woman whose life you have wrecked," whispered Boardman.