Beg pardon, sir; I forgot that you have been writing all these articles about--" "It's all right, Wade," interrupted Braden.

"Tell me, has he made this proposition to any one else?
To the nurses, to Murray--any one ?" Wade hesitated.

"I'm quite sure he hasn't appealed to any one but me, sir, except--that is to say--" "Who else ?" "He told me plainly that he couldn't ask any of the nurses to do it, because he thought it ought to be done by a friend or a--member of the family.

The doctors, of course, might do it unbeknownst to him, but they won't, sir." "Whom else did he speak to about it ?" insisted Braden.
"I can't be sure, but I think he has spoken to Mrs.Thorpe a good many times about it.

Every time she is alone with him, in fact, sir.