I've come tonight to tell you that I love you, but that we can never marry.

Not that I fear him for myself, but for you." "Listen here," said Bill Gregg, "ain't there police in this town ?" "What could they do?
In all of the things which he has done no one has been able to accuse him of a single illegal act--at least no one has ever been able to prove a thing.

And yet he lives by crime.

Does that give you an idea of the sort of man he is ?" "A low hound," said Bill Gregg bitterly, "that's what he shows to be." "Tell me straight," said Ronicky, "what sort of a hold has he got over you?
Can you tell us ?" "I have to tell you," said the girl gravely, "if you insist, but won't you take my word for it and ask no more ?" "We have a right to know," said Ronicky.

"Bill has a right, and, me being Bill's friend, I have a right, too." She nodded.
"First off, what's the way John Mark uses you ?" She clenched her hands.