That crowd--that gang of thieves--that bunch of highwaymen! I've got them--got them, and got a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, too, to start again at home, at Lammis, Mona, back on the--but no, I'm not sure that I can live there now after this big life out here." "I'm not so sure, either," Mona replied, with a light of larger understanding in her eyes.

"But we'll have to go back and stop the world talking, and put things in shape before we come here to stay." "To stay here--do you mean that ?" he asked eagerly.
"Somewhere in this big land," she replied softly; "anyhow, to stay here till I've grown up a little.

I wasn't only small in body in the old days, I was small in mind, Shiel." "Anyhow, I've done with betting and racing, Mona.

I've just got time left--I'm only thirty-nine--to start and really do something with myself." "Well, start now, dear man of Lammis.

What is it you have to do before twelve o'clock to-night ?" "What is it?
Why, I have to pay over two thousand of this,"-- he flourished the banknotes--"and even then I'll still have two thousand left.