Then he laid this plot to gain control of everything, including both of you girls--a plot surely hatched in hell." "You know this to be true?
How ?" "Partly, as I have said, from Kirby's own lips.

In addition Jack Rale added what he knew--they are birds of a feather." "But it seems so impossible, so like fiction.

How could the man hope to succeed; to consummate such a crime?
Besides, why should he desire us--Rene and I--whom he had never seen ?" "It can only be explained when you know the man.

He had heard you described as a beautiful woman--that was enough for his type.

He had convinced himself that Rene was a slave--his slave, once he had successfully played his trick.