"I wish, as I said, some money, and I will give you a reasonable time to get it for me.
"If I get it I will go far away and never appear again to disturb you; but, if I do not receive it, I will simply make my presence known to your husband and destroy you."
"It will but drive me again into poverty and wretchedness, for I will not live a lie to that good man, and shall tell him all."
"You are a fool, Ruby."
"I was a fool when I became your wife.
"I did not love you, though I believed that I did, and I soon found out that it was but a fascination, such as a serpent has over a bird.
"I fled from my happy home, I deserted a true, honourable man, and became your wife, not to be acknowledged as such, for you hid me away in a little village, while you led a life of dissipation in Philadelphia, still believed to be a bachelor by your friends.
"In that lonely life I lived, and my children were born, and, with no friend near, mine was a wretched existence.
"Deserted by you, with my children, I went to New York to earn my living, and thither you followed me, and I had to give you all that I had saved up, and you gambled it away.
"Again deserted by you, I sought to hide away where you could not find me, and I became prosperous, in a small way, by selling the work of my hands; but again you found me, took my little earnings and went West, and soon after I heard of your death.