If anything happens to this cur, and she suspects that I've done it, out of spite, all Hell can't hold her.

I know her well enough for _that_.

No, this fellow has got to be put away on some charge that will absolutely and utterly ruin him, in her eyes, for good and all--that will blast and wreck him, forever, with her.

Something that, when I tell her, will fill her with loathing and horror.

Something that will cause a terrible and complete revulsion of feeling in her, and bring her back to Waldron, as to a strong refuge in time of trouble.