Thus my part in the situation grew harder.

It hurt me so that it made me angry, and my anger made me cruelly frank.
"No.

It can't be done.

Sampson and Wright will be desperately hard to approach, which'll make the chances even.

So, if you must know the truth, it'll be your father and cousin to go under, or it'll be Steele or me, or any combination luck breaks--or all of us!" Her self-control seemed to fly to the four winds.