CHAPTER XVI

AT SUNDOWN Love and hate are the original Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and one can turn into the other in the twinkling of an eye. As Armitage plodded the interminable way he had traversed so lately with such high hopes, he was shaken by paroxysms of rage, which, though centering on Cynthia, included impartially every member of the irrational sex. Antithetical as his anger seemed to the tenderness which but now had possessed him, it was in reality only his turn-coat passion in another guise. The reason Cynthia had given…