I hope you don't expect it of me." "The thought had not so much as occurred to me.

Yet what you tell me, sir, lifts something of the load from my mind." "Does it?
Well, it lifts no load from mine," was the angry retort.

He stood considering.

Then with an impatient gesture he seemed to dismiss his thoughts.

"I can do nothing," he said, "nothing without being false to my duty and becoming as bad as you have been, O'Moy, and without any of the sentimental justification that existed in your case.