WHEN d**k Jopling told Pym that the world wouldn’t be large enough to hold them both if he, Pym, deceived Martha, he was in deadly earnest. d**k was a rough man, with a certain rugged honesty of purpose, and in his rough way he did his duty. He had a flaw in his character which was apt to cause disastrous results, if any one who was aware of it chose to play upon the weakness. That flaw was a lack of power to resist the seductive influences of strong liquor, when once he began to feel its effects. Pym knew of that weakness, and had traded upon it, when with a sense of desperateness he saw his own interests menaced. Then he sought to tempt d**k to the commission of a dastardly deed by giving false information about Jim Spedwick. Although d**k did not promise that he would perjure himself, h
