"I'll take care of you," he said. "You go to sleep!"
CHAPTER VIII
THE TURNING-POINT
"You've brought her back!" said Bunny in amazement. "You've actually
brought her back! Here, Jake? Not here?"
"It was the only thing to do." said Jake between puffs at his pipe. "I'm
sorry on your account, but--well, you can keep out of her way."
Bunny's face was flushed. He stood on the hearth and stared down at Jake
with a troubled countenance. "But you won't be able to keep her," he
protested after a moment. "Charlie will come and get her away again--as
soon as he knows. He's such a wily devil."
"He does know," said Jake.
"He knows? Who told him?"
"I told him," said Jake.
"You told him! What the devil for? I don't understand you, Jake." Bunny's
tone had a touch of fierceness in it, almost of challenge.
Jake's eyes came up to him with absolute steadiness. "I told him," he
said deliberately, "because he is the one person who has a right to know.
He is her husband."
"I don't believe it!" said Bunny violently. "He'd never marry her! It was
a damn trick if he pretended to."
"No," Jake said, "it was not a trick. He has married her, and it's up to
him to make the next move.
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