He did not believe a word of the necklace story.

Somebody was blackmailing the poor child.

If he could only find out who! He made up his mind suddenly to put this problem also in the hands of Spaulding for solution.

The question of his mother-in-law's antecedents was important enough, but that of his wife's happiness and his own was paramount.
He decided to go to the theater himself, for he was in no condition for sleep or the society of men at the club, nor could any book hold his attention.

He prayed that the play would be reasonably diverting.
He walked down town and as he entered the lobby of the Columbia at the close of the first act he saw 'Gene Bisbee and D.V.Bimmer, who was now managing a hotel in San Francisco, standing together.