But from this man Carley could not bear even a casual reference.

Morrison had escaped the army service.

He had been given a high-salaried post at the ship-yards--the duties of which, if there had been any, he performed wherever he happened to be.

Morrison's father had made a fortune in leather during the war.

And Carley remembered Glenn telling her he had seen two whole blocks in Paris piled twenty feet deep with leather army goods that were never used and probably had never been intended to be used.