BEATRICE WILL NEVER MARRY
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But Embry had assured her that surmise on the matter had passed to certainty, that Steele was the man from whom Flash Truitt took his orders, to whom Flash Truitt paid over the moneys which came in to him. Somebody lied; was it Steele? was it Embry?
"Joe Embry is my friend," she maintained stoutly. "And he is a gentleman."
But the upshot of the whole interview between Beatrice Corliss and herself was that, while she hated Bill Steele most heartily and despised him, still Embry made her shudder and … Bill Steele didn't!
"I am not going to marry anybody … ever!" said Beatrice. "I don't have to."
