"I served every minute of my time--every minute of it, three
full, whole years. Do you wonder that I want to get even, that
some one has got to pay? Four years ago, you took away my
name--and gave me a number.... Now, I've given up the number--and
I've got your name."
CHAPTER XV. AFTERMATH OF TRAGEDY.
The Gilders, both father and son, endured much suffering
throughout the night and day that followed the scene in Mary
Turner's apartment, when she had made known the accomplishment of
her revenge on the older man by her ensnaring of the younger.
Dick had followed the others out of her presence at her command,
emphasized by her leaving him alone when he would have pleaded
further with her. Since then, he had striven to obtain another
interview with his bride, but she had refused him. He was denied
admission to the apartment. Only the maid answered the ringing
of the telephone, and his notes were seemingly unheeded.
Distraught by this violent interjection of torment into a life
that hitherto had known no important suffering, Dick Gilder
showed what mettle of man lay beneath his debonair appearance.
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