Chapter XVIII What Charity Covers

* * * * * Captain Dale Conway rose to his feet, amid applause from the crowded little drawing-room—or rather, drawing and breakfast-room made one by throwing open the double doors between. The applause was led by Denny and Leo, who, flushed with triumph in the matter of the Darnborough Vase, were inclined to be boisterously tolerant of everything in general—even the activities of Laura Meakin. “May I sum up for you very briefly,” he suggested, “the results of this meeting—this admirably …