'To kill the man that wronged me and tried to ruin you.'
'Rodney Shaw?' she exclaimed in horror.
'He is the man. Settling day has come at last.'
CHAPTER XXVI
SETTLING DAY
Jim Dennis rode towards Cudgegong, vengeance gnawing at his heart.
So Rodney Shaw was the man who had wronged him, and he, Jim Dennis, had clasped his hand in friendship since then.
How he hated the man, this thief who had robbed him and dishonoured his house. It was with a glow of exultation he thought the hour was at hand when he could call him to account. He meant to settle with Rodney Shaw before he got into the more tender clutches of the law. He would show him no mercy, for he had a double score to pay off now, as there was the insult to Sal to be wiped out.
He worked himself up to such a pitch of savage resentment that he was scarcely answerable for his actions.
This was what he desired, to deaden all the better feelings in him so that there was no possibility of his showing any mercy.