A Fair Fraud — page 146: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 135 to me this afternoon, and I have _ refused him.’ . ‘ Refused kim!’ he gasped, his eyes blazing with sudden fury, and then he caught her arm and gripped it hard, shaking her roughly and angrily. ‘Fool! fool! how dare you? But I won't allow it. Go back to him at once. I order you to, I, your father. Go back and tell him you have changed your mind.’ ‘That is quite impossible, father.’ ‘Impossible, is it? We will see if it’s im- possible. I'll find means to make it possible, then. Look here—’ He thrust his hand into his breast coat pocket and dtew out a revolver. Hester sprang away from him in terror. | ‘I’m not going to shoot you, you idiot! but I swear to you, if you don’t bring me the money I want by the day after to-morrow, I| will shoot down your handsome captain like a dog.’ Hester uttered a cry of horror, then, fired with a desperate courage, she made a wild dash at the weapon in her father’s hand, but he had been prepared for that, and put it quickly back into his pocket with a laugh. His ruse had succeeded, for he had discovered what he wanted. Hester was vulnerable on the subject of her lover. ‘Poor as I am,’ he continued meaningly, as he buttoned up his shabby overcoat over the GOMMGIOO <S (GO) uu