"So now you're engaged to Mr.Mattison ?" "Oh, no!" cried Polly.

"Jim doesn't know I said it--I didn't mean it; I just wanted to make Radnor mad." "I see! So it was a bluff after all?
Were you successful in making him mad ?" She nodded dismally.
"What did he say ?" "Oh, he was awfully angry! He said that if he never amounted to anything it would be my fault." "And then what ?" "We heard the others coming and he started off.

I called after him and asked him where he was going, and he said he was going to the d--devil." Polly began to cry again, and Terry chuckled slightly.
"As a good many other young men have said under similar circumstances.
But where he did go, was to the hotel; and there, it appears, he drank two glasses of brandy and swore at the stable boy .-- Is that all, Miss Mathers ?" "Yes; it's the last time I ever saw him and he thinks I'm engaged to Jim Mattison." "See here, Polly," said I with some excusable heat, "now why in thunder didn't you tell me all this before ?" "You didn't ask me." "She was afraid that it would get into the papers," said Terry, soothingly.

"It would be a terrible scandal to have anything like that get out.

The fact that Radnor Gaylord was likely to be hanged for a murder he never committed, was in comparison a minor affair." Polly turned upon him with a flash of gray eyes.
"I was going to tell before the trial.