"I?"
"Yes. And, by the eternal, you've got to! Do you think I'm going to ruin just because you couldn't stand a little rough treatment now and then? Why, better women than you would be glad to come back to me. I'll take you back!"
"Take me back! Oh, my God!"
"Cut out that hysterical stuff!" he ordered. "I'm desperate! I've got to have money. I can raise it on a note if you'll sign it and put up those bonds for security, and by—"
He caught her wrist in a grip that made her wince with pain as he swung her around to face him.
"I've got to have your signature and the bonds!" he exclaimed in voice tense with suppressed passion.
"The bonds!" she exclaimed. "You know what almost became of them. I let you raise money on them once, and almost lost them. Now you dare ask me for them again?"
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