Chapter 43

Sally was silent again. Her face was averted, and Fiske knew she was fighting hard to keep her composure in this crisis. He laid his hand on hers, and his voice was very gentle. "I don't need to tell you how sorry I am to bring all this upon you, at one blow," he said. "But both of us need to be in full possession of the facts, for Schuy's sake. We don't want him upset and unhappy over anything we can prevent. We'd like to have him so single-minded and generous that he'd take the prospect of being supplanted as the…