“Thanks for the compliment, for it is not many who can be a devil and beautiful as well.”
“You will not rest so easy as you say, for I swear that I will haunt you.”
The woman laughed.
“Ah! but I will haunt you, Nina de Sutro, until I drive you to despair, to madness, to death.”
The man’s face was livid now, for he felt all that he uttered. But the woman was wholly unmoved. She gazed fixedly at him a moment and said:
“Poor creature, you already haunt me while living. You will haunt me less when dead, for then you know I will be a widow, and I can find some one else to love me, for I’ll tell you now that one reason why I do not attempt your rescue is because I have discovered that I cannot win the man whom I love. I see with wide-open eyes, Arden, and I have seen that the man I sought to win, and believed that I could, is madly in love with your sister.”
“With my sister?” gasped the outlaw.
“Oh, yes, with your beautiful sister.”
“Where did he know her?”
“Only since she has been here.”