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between them. She, with the right to accuse, unconsciously took the attitude of supplication. The man knew he had nothing to fear, and laid his plans accordingly. "I don't believe you've come here to look for work," he said, stooping over the crouching figure. "You've come here to make trouble--to hound the life out of me." "My hope in coming here was that I might never see you again. What could I want of you, Lennox Sanderson?" The measured contempt of her tones was not without its effect. He winced perceptibly, but his coarse instincts rallied to his help and again he began to bully: "Spare me the usual hard-luck story of the deceived young woman trying to make an honest living. If you insist on drudging, it's your own fault. I offered to take care of you and provide for your future, but you received my offers of assistance with a 'Villain-take-your-gold' style, that I was not prepared to accept. If, as you say, you never wish to see me again, what is simpler than to go away?" His cold-blooded indifference, his utter withdrawal from the calamity he had brought upon her, his airy suggestion that she should go because it suited his pleasure to remain, maddened Anna. The blood rushed to her pale cheeks and there came her old conquering beauty with it. She eyed him with equal defiance. "I shall not go, because it does not suit me." And then wavering a little at the thought of her wretched experience--"I had too much trouble finding a place where an honest home is offered for honest work, to leave this one for your whim. No, I shall not go." They heard footsteps moving about the house. A lamp shone out from the dining-room window. The Squire's voice, inquiring for Kate, came across to them on the still summer air. They looked into each other's pale, determined faces. Which would yield? It was the old struggle between the sexes--a struggle old as earth, unsettled as chaos. Which should yield? The man who had sinned much, or the woman who had loved much? Sanderson employed all the force of his brutality to frighten Anna into yielding. "See here," and he caught her arm in no uncertain grasp. "You've got to go. You can't stay here in the same place with me. If money is what you want, you shall have it; but you've got to go. Do you understand? _Go_!" He had emphasized his words by tightening the grip on her arm, and the pain of it well nigh made her cry out. He relaxed his hold jus
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