'Then nothing can save him?' said Nix. 'I have sent for Dr Sheridan.'
'He is at Wanabeen by now,' said Jim.
'Who is ill there?'
'My wife, or the woman who was my wife.'
Benjamin Nix knew something of that story.
'Has she returned?' he added.
'Yes, to die in the home of the husband and child she had deserted for that man,' said Jim, as he pointed to Rodney Shaw.
Benjamin Nix started back and said,—
'Can it be possible he is such a villain?'
Rodney Shaw opened his eyes and looked at them vacantly. A violent fit of coughing seized him and the blood poured from his mouth. He commenced to struggle, for the terrible flow choked him. They went to his assistance and raised him, but it was too late, his head fell back and he was dead. A higher power than Jim Dennis's had summoned him to answer for his sins.