CHAPTER XXV

A NEW PARTNERSHIP Chess Copley and Helen Cameron were supposed to be watching over the sick one; but it is to be feared that they somewhat neglected Tom just at this time. Tom was getting along pretty well anyway. He was presumably asleep, and the two had something very important to tell each other. Anyone would have known it was important—the chiefest thing in the world, indeed—if he could have seen the way they looked at each other. Chess gazed upon Helen as though he really thought he might be deprived of his ey…