He had set himself to this thing,
and even the urging of the one person in the world for whom he
most cared was powerless against his resolve.
"I can't quit now until we've got what we came here after," he
declared roughly.
Of a sudden, the girl made shift to employ another sort of
supplication.
"But there are reasons," she said, faltering. A certain
embarrassment swept her, and the ivory of her cheeks bloomed
rosily. "I--I can't have you rob this house, this particular
house of all the world." Her eyes leaped from the still obdurate
face of the forger to the group of three back of him. Her voice
was shaken with a great dread as she called out to them.
"Boys, let's get away! Please, oh, please! Joe, for God's sake!"
Her tone was a sob.
Her anguish of fear did not swerve Garson from his purpose.
"I'm going to see this through," he said, doggedly.
"But, Joe----"
"It's settled, I tell you."
In the man's emphasis the girl realized at last the inefficacy of
her efforts to combat his will. She seemed to droop visibly
before their eyes.
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