CHAPTER XX

HAPPINESS CAN keep a man awake as readily as trouble. It was past three o’clock before Dick Staines fell asleep, and he woke so light of heart that in the midst of his shaving there was a knock on the door and the chambermaid came in. “The gentleman next door says would you please stop singing, sir? He’s suffering from nerves.” Dick’s roar of laughter was probably as disturbing as his song. He saw the girl only for a few minutes; a telephone message from Bourke urged him to come back to town at the earliest opportu…