"But what has this to do with that ?" she said.
She saw his face harden, become cruel.

"Miss Campion is nothing to me," he said brutally.

"Either you give me your most sacred promise to marry me before the end of the year, or--I shall tell her the truth here and now, as I have just told it to you." She shrank as though he had struck her.

"Oh, you couldn't!" she cried out wildly.

"You couldn't! No man could be such a fiend!" He came a step nearer to her, and suddenly his eyes glowed with a fire that scorched her to the soul.