She had tried to
kill. Therefore, of the two, Carmin Fanchet would have been the
better woman in the eyes of McVane.
In spite of the legal force of the argument which he was bringing
against himself, David felt unconvinced. Carmin Fanchet, had she
been in the place of St. Pierre's wife, would have finished him
there in the sand. She would have realized the menace of letting
him live and would probably have commanded Bateese to dump him in
the river. St. Pierre's wife had gone to the other extreme. She
was not only repentant, but was making restitution, for her
mistake, and in making that restitution had crossed far beyond the
dead-line of caution. She had frankly told him who she was; she
had brought him into the privacy of what was undeniably her own
home; in her desire to undo what she had done she had hopelessly
enmeshed herself in the net of the Law--if that Law saw fit to
act. She had done these things with courage and conviction. And of
such a woman, Carrigan thought, St. Pierre must be very proud.
He looked slowly about the cabin again and each thing that he saw
was a living voice breaking up a dream for him. These voices told
him that he was in a temple built because of a man's worship for a
woman--and that man was St.
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