"I'll turn everything I have into money and on the chance that he may be somewhere in the South Seas I'll charter a ship and go and hunt for him."
"I wouldn't like to be in your shoes when you meet him, if you do."
"I don't much fancy the situation myself," admitted Harnash, "but that's neither here nor there. I've got to do it."
"You must have been desperately in love with Stephanie to have done this thing."
"I was. I am. I don't want to plead anything in justification," answered the other, "but if Stephanie had loved Beekman I don't think I should have interfered, although she probably would have found out that I loved her because I couldn't help letting her see it. You have seen it yourself, haven't you?"
"Now that you say it, I recall things that looked that way and, yes, I had begun to suspect it."
"But when I found out that she didn't love him and that she did love me and that she was only going through with it to please you and the elder Beekman--well, it seemed horrible. I swore to her that I would prevent it if I had to snatch her away from him at the foot of the altar."
"Instead of which you snatched him from her the day before."
"It was the same day."
"I wonder why none of us ever thought of the Susquehanna."