"Ever since you left me I have had no thought but you. In life's morning you were my love, my all. I could not tear you from my heart had I wished to. But I never tried."
"Is that possible?" she gasps incredulously. "You must indeed have loved me!"
"I may be mad, but it is so. I love you now in your degradation, and misery, in spite of all!"
The confession staggers her.
"And you show it by hunting me down to destroy my happiness. You must have sought long to find me here, and now that you are successful, now that I am run to earth, what will you do?"
"What do you think?"
His face becomes fiendish. She watches his sinister smile.
"I have told you what I believe you capable of—you will murder him. I know it. You have no pity! The love you boast of is swallowed up in hate."
An evil flame lights his mocking eyes.
"Yes, I might spring at his throat as he comes from the jungle, I might set 'Help' upon him in the dark. He is a weak man, easily unnerved. The very sight of this knife——"