[SPAM] going upstairs, ' the lawyer explained. 'And the door was ajar

S it? What is the matter?' She did not answer, but looked at him with
solemn eyes, condemning him. Even so Sir George was not blind to the
whiteness of her throat, to the heavy coils of her dark hair, and the
smooth beauty of her brow. And suddenly he thought he understood; and a
chill ran through him. 'My G--d!' he said, startled; 'he is not dead?'
She closed the door behind her, and stood, her hand on the latch. 'No,
he is not dead,' she said stiffly, voice and look alike repellent. 'But
he has not you to thank for that.' 'Eh?' 'How can you come here with
that face,' she continued with sudden passion--and he began to find her
eyes intolerable--'and ask for him? You who--fie, sir! Go home! Go home
and thank God that you have not his blood upon your hands--you--who
might to-day be Cain!' He gasped. 'Good Lord!' he said unaffectedly. And
then, 'Why, you are the girl who yesterday would have me kill him!' he
cried with indignation; 'who came out of town to meet me, brought me in,
and would have matched me with him as coolly as ever sportsman set cock
in pit! Ay, you! And now you blame me! My girl, blame yourself! Call
yourself Cain, if you please!' 'I do,' she said unblenching. 'But I have
my excuse. God forgive me none the less!' Her eyes filled as she said
it. 'I had and have my excuse. But you--a gentleman! What part had you
in this? Who were you to kill your fellow-creature--at the word of a
distraught girl?' Sir George saw his opening and jumped for it
viciously. 'I fear you honour me too much,' he said, in the tone of
elaborate politeness, which was most likely to embarrass a woman in her
position. 'Most certainly you do, if you are really under the impression
that I fought Mr. Dunborough on your account, my girl!' 'Did you not?'
she stammered; and the new-born doubt in her eyes betrayed her trouble.
'Mr. Dunborough struck me, because I would not let him fire on the
crowd,' Sir George explained, blandly raisin

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