I have tried to be faithful, and true, but even had he sworn to me that he was innocent, the fear would have remained.

Save me from him--oh, Eugene, save me!" But Eugene put her quite away from him, and looked at her almost sternly.

His honor held the reins now in good earnest.

The suspicion of Madelon, which he had never owned to himself, became a certainty.
He defended his rival as strenuously as he would have defended himself, since it involved truth to himself.

"I swear to you, Dorothy Fair," he said, "that Burr Gordon is innocent, and that your fear of him is groundless." Dorothy looked at him with dilated eyes.