\"Lefferts—who made love to her and got snubbed for it!\" Archer broke out contemptuously.
\"Ah—DID he?\" snapped the other, as if this were exactly the fact he had been laying a trap for. He still sat sideways from the fire, so that his hard old gaze held Archer's face as if in a spring of steel.
\"Well, well: it's a pity she didn't go back before Beaufort's cropper,\" he repeated. \"If she goes NOW, and if he fails, it will
\"Lefferts—who made love to her and got snubbed for it!\" Archer broke out contemptuously.
\"Ah—DID he?\" snapped the other, as if this were exactly the fact he had been laying a trap for. He still sat sideways from the fire, so that his hard old gaze held Archer's face as if in a spring of steel.
\"Well, well: it's a pity she didn't go back before Beaufort's cropper,\" he repeated. \"If she goes NOW, and if he fails, it will
