“Didn’t they tell you? The fools!” He laughed derisively. “They let him go. They knew I wouldn’t want it. They did it for me. He went East on the noon train—quite alive, I assure you. I am glad of it—for your sake.”
“For my sake!” Her voice lifted in mingled joy and derision, and both her hands were squeezing his with a pressure that made his blood leap with a longing to possess her. “For my sake!” she repeated, and the emphasis made him gasp and stiffen. “For your sake—for both of us, Trevison! Oh, what fools we were! What fools all people are, not to trust and believe!”
“What do you mean?” He drew her toward him, roughly, and held her hands in a grip that made her wince. But she looked straight at him in spite of the pain, her eyes brimming with a promise that he could not mistake.
“Can’t you see?” she said to him, her voice quavering; “must I tell you?”
ZANE GREY’S NOVELS
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LAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTS
The life story of “Buffalo Bill” by his sister Helen Cody Wetmore, with Foreword and conclusion by Zane Grey.