“All right.”
“You seem indifferent?”
“I am not indifferent; but I shall, when I see that there is no help for it, go to Colonel Dunwoody with Lieutenant-Colonel De Sutro and his wife and tell him the truth.”
“You dare not.”
“Oh, yes, I dare. I shall have as witnesses Major and Mrs. Lester, Clarice Carr, Captain Caruth, Surgeon Frank Powell, Lieutenant Turpin, and Buffalo Bill. I will tell my story as it was, Colonel De Sutro and his wife will vouch for it, and I will not only have the sympathy of all, but will be a heroine as well.”
“You will be disgraced.”
“No, for your sins will not be visited upon my head, and when you tell the story on the gallows, my prior confession will have taken the sting from it.”
“I do not believe you will do it!”
“Then you do not know me.”
“I cannot believe it. Then you would see me die?”