"Not a step," answered the girl firmly, and she had not moved her eyes from the face of the elder woman. "Not a step with you. What I have to say has got to be told to someone who loves Terry Hollis. I've found that someone. I stick here till I've done talking."
Vance Cornish gasped. But Elizabeth opened her eyes, and they brightened--but coldly, it seemed to Kate.
"I think I understand," said Elizabeth Cornish gravely. "He has entangled the interest of this poor girl--and sent her to plead for him. Is that so? If it's money he wants, let her have what she asks for, Vance. But I can't talk to her of the boy."
"Very well," said Vance, without enthusiasm. He stepped before her. "Will you step this way, Miss Pollard?"
"Not a step," she repeated, and deliberately sat down in a chair. "You'
