“But you’re freeing Kane dishonestly.”
“I am not! I fully believe Landon is innocent. But it seems impossible to find the real culprit, and it is to persuade the judge and jury, that I do things I would scorn to do in a less urgent case.”
“But Leslie, I don’t want to marry you.”
“Very well, then, don’t.”
“And you’ll free Kane, just the same?”
“Indeed I will not! Your lover may shift for himself. And we’ll see what verdict he will get!”
“Oh, Leslie, don’t talk like that! I shouldn’t think you’d want a girl who loves somebody else.”
“I’d far rather you’d love me, dear,” and Hoyt spoke very tenderly; “but I love you so much I’ll take you on any terms. And, too, I have faith to believe I can teach you to love me. You are very young, dearest, and in the years to come you will turn to me, though you don’t think so now.”
“Then you refuse to get Kane free, except on condition that I marry you?”
“I most certainly do.”