We got him!"
He gave the bandit a shove, and two other rangers grasped him by either
arm. In a twinkling they were gone, had mounted their horses and were
galloping away in the starlight.
So everything was over and done with! Lucia was heart-broken for Lopez. She
came back into the room, murmuring:
"Lopez! Lopez captured!" There were tears in her eyes.
Pell paced the room with new strength. His eyes were now sinister.
"Fortunately for us, my dear," he said. "For now we are certain not to be
disturbed while working out a sensible solution of our little problem." He
had forgotten the pain in his head. He lighted a cigarette, casually,
slowly. "You will of course sue for divorce," he went on, blowing a ring to
the ceiling and watching it ascend. "But there'll be no difficulty about
that. I shall not contest," he added magnanimously.
She grasped at the straw. "You won't?" She almost believed him now.
"You'd win, anyway," her husband said. "But there _is_ the question of
alimony."
Gilbert swerved about. He detested the word. "Alimony!" he cried.
"An attractive woman never gets the worst of it in court," Pell coldly
stated. "Suppose we settle that--right here and now.
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