Harley and I would be friends. That is
impossible. He came out here to crush me. For years his subordinates have
tried to do this and failed. I am the only man alive that has ever resisted
him successfully. I don't underestimate his power, which is greater than
any czar or emperor that ever lived, but I don't think he will succeed. I
shall win because I understand the forces against me. He will lose because
he scorns those against him."
"I am sorry. Oh, I am so sorry," she wailed, gently as a breath of summer
wind. For she saw now that the cleavage between them was too wide for a
girl's efforts to bridge.
"That I am going to win?" he smiled gravely.
"That you must be enemies; that he came here to ruin you, since you say he
did."
"You need not be too hard on him for that. By his code I am a freebooter
and a highwayman. Business offers legitimate ways of robbery, and I
transgress them. His ways are not my ways, and mine are not his, but it is
only fair to say that his are the accepted ones."
"I don't understand it at all. You are both good men. I know you are.
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