"It is a lie, and I know it. But all will soon be over now."
"What do you mean?"
"Just what I say, Jack Farley."
"What are you going to do?"
"Explode this dynamite, and end all at once. Jack, in two minutes you, she and I will be in eternity!"
"Are you stark, staring mad? Give me that stuff!"
The woman laughed wildly.
"No, the hour has come!" she cried.
She lifted the cylinder above her head, with the evident intention of hurling it to the hard wood floor.
But at that instant her arm was seized and the dynamite forced from her hand.