Chapter 56

"I think you must know, and you may be the only person who does. Will you sit down, please?" Jo took the chair on the other side of the fireplace, wondering what knowledge could be in her possession which Doctor Chase wished to obtain from her. His tone was cheerful, his manner that of a man who has a definite object in view, and who is intent upon it with no time to lose. She had not seen him in such fashion since he had come to Cherry Square. And yet she knew--or was very sure--that his eyesight had been failing …