"I will." As he spoke he turned and walked on up the beach. She sighed as her eyes followed his free, powerful movements and noticed his easy, graceful figure and broad shoulders; then she turned to meet Dick. "That was that Blake, the life-guard," Dick spluttered, his sallow face whiter than ever now with anger. "You must think I'm a damned fool to stand for a thing like this!" "I think that you are forgetting, Dick, that you are not speaking to one of your chorus-girl friends." "Do you? Well, let me tell you something; even one of what you are pleased to call my chorus-girl friends would have the decency to play the game straight while she played it at all. There's another name for a woman who takes one man's money and when his back is turned lets another fellow----" "You would be wise to stop right there!" She sprang up and faced him, white with rage, and with a look that, angry as he was, he dared not face. "I have taken your money; yes, this is not the first time you have chosen to remind me of it, but it is the very last. You won't have another chance! I won't take another dollar from you until we are married; after that, if you ever dare to repeat a thing like that, I will leave you! Now you go, get that divorce you talk so much about before you let me see your face again, and get it soon, if you expect me to wait for you!" "Lola, forgive me. I--I was wrong, but I am worried sick, or I wouldn't have made such a fool of myself! Don't be hard, Lola; I've troubles enough without that. I--I'm in a devil of a mess." "What mess?" she questioned quickly. "More trouble with your father?" "Yes, another letter. He's sore because I've been away from New York so long, neglecting my business, he says, and spending too much money. He will come around all right; he always does, but to tell you the truth he refused to send me the check I asked for." "He never did that before, did he?" "No, but it's sure to be all right. I sent him a 'day letter,' and he'll come around, but it rattled me, and my lawyers wrote that my confounded wife sticks out for fifty thousand!" "Well?" "I wired them to offer forty cash. I know the old man will pay that. He's tired of having her around Cleveland, calling herself Mrs. Fenway. Forty thousand is an awful hold-up, but I can't wait. The whole thing may be settled to-day." "If your father, who has refused you ten thousand, agrees to give you fifty, and if this woman, who has stood out for fifty thousand, agrees to take forty, if all this happens you will be a free man, but these things have not happened yet, and if they do you will have to prove to me that there will be no more of this talk about the money you have spent on me, and the obligation I am supposed to be under to you, before I will agree to tie myself to you. Favors! Look at me! If I am not worth the few thousand I have cost you, go back to Broadway; you can buy more for your money there!"