We'll see what he has to say about it." Lester Ward, the brother of Mrs.Collins, also lived in Delmore Park.

He had succeeded to his father's banking business and occupied the house which his parents had left.

Fifteen minutes after Collins summoned him over the telephone, he was seated in his sister's library, prepared to mediate in what he guessed to be another quarrel between her and her husband.
"This letter will explain itself," Collins opened the conversation.
Lifting the note out of the envelope, he read: "_My Dear Grace_: "Since I communicated with you last, additional reasons have developed to justify your leaving him immediately.

Your belief that with all his faults he has adhered to his marriage vows is but a delusion born of your own pure nature.

I have the proof, if you care to hear it.