my warning, is it? If I gave you your just deserts, I would thrash you within an inch of your life, for attempting to take my lover away from me! Now listen to what I have to say, girl, and take warning: You must leave this company at once. If you do not do so, I will not answer for myself. Do not make it an excuse that you have no money. Here!" and with the word she flung a bill in her face. "The depot is to your right. Go there, and take the first train back to the city whence you came. Go, I say, while yet I can keep my wrath in check."
Jessie stood there for a moment like one stupefied. She tried to explain how it had happened, but her companion would not listen and walked away.
As one lost, Jessie wandered to the depot, where a policeman, noticing her distress, drew her story from h
