"Oh, come, Havener!" he cried, "you can't mean that——"
"Just that!" said Havener, grimly. "I'm going gunning for a man!"
"That is folly, man! You must know what it means!"
"It means that Sargent gets what he deserves!"
"It means that you wreck your own life—that you may be hanged for murder!"
"Oh, what's the odds! My life doesn't amount to anything! The girl is done for. I know it. She'll never recover from this."
"What makes you think that?"
"I feel it—I know it! The morphine—she is using it again. It will kill her in the end, if she doesn't die from the treatment she received to-night."
"She won't die from that."