"Look here," said Miss Conway very earnestly; "there wasn't any love business between you and her, was there?"
"No," he answered strongly.
"I was always afraid of that. Do you know—if you don't mind, when I've really paid my cruel creditor everything, I should like to write and tell her what he's done for me. I should like her to know that she really did save me—and how. Because if it hadn't been for her you'd never have thought of helping me. Do you think I might?"
"It could do no harm," said Vernon after a silent moment. "You'd really like her to know you're all right. You are all right?"
"I'm right; as I never thought I could be ever again."
"Well, you needn't exaggerate the little services of your cruel creditor. Come to think of it, you needn't name him. Just say it was a man you knew."
But when Paula came to write the letter that was not just what she said.
Book 4.—The Other Man
CHAPTER XXI.