And all the way to the sod house that night he kept repeating what he had heard. "Christine, Christine! You have her, is she not enough? Give her back and all is yours!"
If he could only ascertain what was between Kaden and Christine—but it was all coming to something soon, and he knew that Augustus M. Barr was taking the advantage of some one; that Kaden was innocent but couldn't prove it; that Syfe was in some way darkly connected, and the eternal triangle held to its sinister purpose.
CHAPTER X
"YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS WAY BEFORE"
WHEN AGNES STEWART found her father and they were ready to return home, she inquired:
"Did he see you?"
"See who?"
"You? You don't understand. I mean the colored gentleman, Mr. Baptiste?"
"Why, no, my dear," her father replied wonderingly. "I saw him, but I had no word with him. I don't understand."