[CHAPTER LX.]
Ida sunk on her knees before him.
"Come," he said; "you must go quietly with me."
"Inhuman monster!" moaned Ida.
"Come. This is no time to exchange compliments," he said. "We have parleyed here too long already."
His grasp tightened on the slender wrist, but she did not seem to heed the pain of it.
"I can not, I will not go with you!" she panted.
A taunting laugh answered her. He was dragging her by main force down the path, when the figure of a man suddenly sprung before him.
"You!" cried Royal Ainsley, furiously.