"You have betrayed my trust!"
Wolf brushed her aside and confronted Norman, who had thrown the bomb he had taken from Tom's hand into the sea.
Norman paid no attention to Wolf, and seemed to see only the girl's face convulsed with passion. His eyes never left her for a moment.
Wolf turned and secured the other men who had defended the dredge, marching them with their hands tied behind their backs between two rows of guardsmen off to jail.
Norman spoke at last to Barbara in low, cold tones:
"I congratulate you."
"What do you mean?" she gasped.
"That you are a superb actress. You have played your part to perfection. Your rôle was very dramatic, too. A clumsy woman would have bungled it, and lost even at the last moment."
"You cannot believe that I willingly betrayed you?" she cried, in anguish.
"I wish I had died before I knew it," he answered, bitterly.