He said that all the days of his life he would follow us, until we paid a thousand times for what we had done.

And then my father dragged him as he would have dragged a rat to the edge of a piece of bush, and there he tore his clothes from him until the brute was naked; and in that nakedness he scourged him with whips until his arms were weak, and John Graham was unconscious and like a great hulk of raw beef.

When it was over, we went into the mountains." During the terrible recital Mary Standish had not looked away from him, and now her hands were clenched like his own, and her eyes and face were aflame, as if she wanted to leap up and strike at something unseen between them.
"And after that, Alan; after that--" She did not know that she had spoken his name, and he, hearing it, scarcely understood.
"John Graham kept his promise," he answered grimly.

"The influence and money behind him haunted us wherever we went.

My father had been successful, but one after another the properties in which he was interested were made worthless.