I love your niece, Mr.Delora,--some day or other I mean to make her my wife,--and I will not have her dragged into anything which is either disreputable or against the law." "Has my niece encouraged you ?" Delora asked calmly.
"Not in the least," I answered.

"She has been kind enough to give me to understand that she cares a little, and there the matter ends.
Nothing more could be said between us in this state of uncertainty.
But I came here for this one purpose.

I came to tell you that if by any chance Felicia should be mistaken, if you play her false in any way, if you seek to embroil her in your schemes, or to do anything by means of which she could suffer, I shall first of all shake the life out of your body, and then I shall go to Scotland Yard and tell them how much I know." "About Mr.Tapilow, also ?" Delora asked, with a sneer.
"Do you think I am afraid to take the punishment for my own follies ?" I asked indignantly.

"If I believed that, I would go and give myself up to-morrow.

Louis can give me away if he will, or you.