The world says I was a thief, and a thief I am until I prove to the world I am innocent--and wreck three lives! How much of Jo's guilt is guilt?
How much remorse should a man suffer to pay the debt of a life?
If the law is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, how much hourly remorse and torture, such as Jo's, should balance the eye or the tooth or the life?
I wonder, now!" He leaned over, and, helping Jo to his feet, gently forced him down upon a bench near.

"All right, Jo, my friend," he said.

"I understand.

We'll drink the gall together." They sat and looked at each other in silence.
At length Charley leaned over and touched Jo on the shoulder.
"Why did you want to save yourself ?" he said.
At that instant there was a knock at the door, and a voice said: "Monsieur!--Monsieur!" Jo sprang to his feet with a sharp exclamation, then went heavily to the door and threw it open..