Chapter 55

"He is rather wonderful," Fiske admitted, though privately he thought Sally more so, after a man's way of thinking. "I shouldn't have expected him to show up so well, in his condition. He would have every right to go to pieces, weak as he is." "I'm frightened for the strain on him, but it's no use trying to get him away." "Not a bit of use. What father worth the name, sick or well, would go away? It won't hurt him as much as staying outside would, especially if----" That last phrase had slipped unawares from his li…