But what this means to Natalie Coolidge is another matter entirely." "She told you--" "Yes, she told me--a lie.

That is what hurts; what makes me ready to take any chance to put you where you belong.

You have lied to her, deceived her, made her your accomplice in crime.

I'm fighting for a woman, because she has got no one else to fight for her." "Oh, I see; in love, hey--with her, or her money ?" "With neither so far as I know," frankly.

"She is a woman helpless in your hands; that is sufficient." "But, hell, she hasn't any use for you--didn't she tell you so ?" "Quite plainly--yes.