"Because I am telling you now that it does not. You can trust me if you can't the law. That isn't the danger to be feared."
"What is?" she asked, quickly.
"Just what I was telling you, that after due process of law the court might decide in favor of his claim—if he should press it—and I don't believe he will."
"He will!" she said, hopelessly. "I know he will. You don't know how vindictively he looked at me."
It was useless to argue against such logic as this, and he went away.
When he was gone Margaret had the great door locked and bolted and gave orders that no one should be admitted. That night she slept fitfully, Philip in her arms.
CHAPTER XIII
THE WOLF BLOOD
It was not until the next day that Judge Kirtley went to see Mr. De Jarnette.
"I will give him an opportunity to sleep over it," he told his wife. "A man's sober second thought is always in the morning."