“Now you know; now you understand,” she said. “This will end it.”
“No!” he declared. “This is not the end! It is the beginning!”
“If you annoy me——”
“I’ll never give up! I’ll win you from him—or I’ll kill him!”
Fillmore fairly hissed the final words, and his face took on a look that frightened the girl.
“How would that help you?” she demanded. “You would make me loathe you, and you would send yourself to the chair.”
“But I’d have the satisfaction of knowing he had not secured you. He never shall! I’ll kill him first!”