Oh, I am glad of that! You were angry with him, perhaps, Mr.Laverick ?" Laverick stood with his back to the little fireplace and with his hands behind him--a commanding figure in the tiny room full of feminine trifles.

He looked a great deal more at his ease than he really was.
"Perhaps I was inclined to be short-tempered," he admitted.

"You see, to be frank with you, the department of our business that was going wrong was the one over which Morrison has had sole control.
He had entered into certain speculations which I considered unjustifiable.

To-day, however, matters took an unexpected turn for the better." Almost as he spoke his face clouded.

Morrison, of course, would be triumphant.