I must tell her all." Suddenly he thought of the future.

His heart sickened.

"Wade will undoubtedly recommend my discharge.

If Jack fails me, I am then to be cast out in the streets, and the influence of the Trust will surely keep me from holding any other position longer than they can find out where to reach me." He absently broke the seals of a couple of letters dropped on his desk in his brief absence.
He sprang up, a new man, as he read Jack Witherspoon's few words.
The missive was dated from Paris.

It bore in its light-hearted chatter a few words which sealed his fate in life.
"Am coming home at once.