The note on the dining room table proved, to the captain's delight, to be from James Pearson.

It was brief and to the point.
"Why don't you come and see me ?" wrote the young man.

"I've been expecting you, and you promised to come.

Have you forgotten my address?
If so, here it is.

I expect to be in all day to-morrow." The consequence of this was that eleven o'clock the next day found Captain Elisha pulling the bell at a brick house in a long brick block on a West Side street.