CHAPTER IV

Collison had never thought of that. He thought of it now, however, though he only laughed at Miss Van Dresler’s suggestion. And he thought of it still more next day—indeed, he was thinking of it rather seriously in the middle of the afternoon when a clerk entered his room with a telegram. Collison had to read that telegram over two or three times before he grasped its full significance. When he at last saw what it really meant, he also saw that in all probability he was on the verge of some further revelations. …