"Why, if you murder him, I will avenge it; so God help us both!"
"What is he to you? Do you know him?"
She forced back the whirlwind of passion, and stood up, cold and white.
"I never saw him," she replied; "but if you wish his money, I shall not stand between you and him; his life you shall not take."
"Are you in earnest?"
She answered him with a look.
"But we have not settled on that; I propose to follow him—"
"Fools!" exclaimed Sybil. "To-morrow night the house and the valley will be full of mad and drunken men. There may be half a dozen robberies—will one more make any great difference?"
"What a woman you are!" exclaimed Yates, with that sort of admiring dread with which a bad man watches a superior in coldness and courage. "It will be impossible to say who did it! What a mind you have when it works in earnest."