Brand Blotters

She grieved passionately for that which had gone out of her life, for the

comradeship that had been so precious to her. If this man were a waddy,

who of all her friends could she trust? She could have forgiven him had he

done wrong in the heat of anger. But this premeditated evil was beyond

forgiveness. To make it worse, he had come direct from the doing of it to

meet her, with a brazen smile on his lips and a lie in his heart. She

would never speak to him again--never so long as she lived.