Chapter 40: Black Delrose Uses Emphatic Language

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​​​​‌​⁠Delrose flew rather than walked to Rose Cottage muttering curses on Kate and Trevalyon as he ran. "D—— him, he has always had the best of it whenever he and I have crossed lances. Kate has loved him best all along, and did he hold up his finger she'd not go with me to-night. But by the stars she shall! I have got the upper hand of her at last by the help of the coming—. We are a daring, reckless r