to sell your paltry souls for! Oh, I'll make you cringe most of all,

Billy Woods! I'm rich, do you hear?--rich--

rich

! Wouldn't you be

glad to marry the rich Margaret Hugonin, Billy? Ah, haven't you

schemed hard for that? You'd be glad to do it, wouldn't you? You'd

give your dirty little soul for that, wouldn't you, Billy? Ah, what a

cur you are! Well, some day perhaps I'll buy you just as I would any

other cur. Wouldn't you be glad if I did, Billy? Beg for it, Billy!

Beg, sir! Beg!" And Margaret flung back her head again, and laughed