  After a time Sheila rose from the bunk on which she had been sitting and stood in the center of the floor, looking down at her father. Dakota had not moved. He stood also, watching Langford, his face pale and grim, and he did not speak until Sheila had addressed him twice. “What are you going to do now?” she said dully. “It is for you to say, you know. You hold his life in your hands.” “Do?” He smiled bitterly at her. “What would you do? I have waited ten years for this day. It must go on to the end.” “The end?” “Yes; the end,” he said gravely. “He”—Dakota pointed to the prostrate figure—“must sign a written confession.” “And then?” “He will return to answer for his crime.” Sheila shuddered and turned from him with bowed head. “Oh!” she said at last; “it will be too horrible! My friends in the East—they will——” “Your friends,” he said with some bitterness. “Could your friends say more than my friends said when they thought that I had murdered my own father in cold blood and then run away?” “But I am innocent,” she pleaded. “I was innocent,” he returned, with a grave smile. “Yes, but I could not help you, you know, for I wasn’t there when you were accused. But you are here, and you can help me. Don’t you see,” she said, coming close to him, “don’t you see that the disgrace will not fall on him, but on me. I will make him sign the confession,” she offered, “you can hold it over him. He will make restitution of your property. But do not force him to go back East. Let him go somewhere—anywhere—but let him live. “But my vengeance,” he said, the bitterness of his smile softening as he looked down at her. “Your vengeance?” She came closer to him, looking up into his face. “Are we to judge—to condemn? 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