4/69 "Perhaps--perhaps if it were that of which you suspect me, we could patch it up. But, Constance, I--I must leave for the west on the first train in the morning." He did not pause to notice her startled look, but raced on. "I have worked every night this week trying to straighten out those accounts of mine by the first of the year and--and I can't do it. An expert begins on them in a couple of days. |