31/34 The girl is in love with him." "Ye're surely mad!" cried Bishop, when he had recovered speech. "But I happen to be sane, and to speak with knowledge." "With knowledge ?" "Arabella herself has confessed it to me." "The brazen baggage! By God, I'll bring her to her senses." It was the slave-driver speaking, the man who governed with a whip. "That's not the way with a girl of Arabella's spirit. Unless you want to wreck my chances for all time, you'll hold your tongue, and not interfere at all." "Not interfere? |