His eyes bright with sympathy.

"You will soon be well again," he said.

He took my hand, sat down by me, cautioned me not to worry about my business affairs, told me that nothing would happen adverse to my interests while I was incapacitated, that Mr.Brooks was guarding my affairs and that they were not in peril....

And it turned out that Miss Spurgeon was his fiancee, that it was to her that he had returned from Chicago.

They were soon now to be married.