She came and sat on the arm of his chair. “Chase, dear, we mustn’t jump to conclusions. Don’t you remember—thirty-eight years ago—how afraid I was of your fierceness? You had to wait, and you did wait. There was no breaking your will to marry me. Don’t you underestimate the tensile strength of your own son?”
“You mean he won’t give her up?”
“I don’t believe he will.”
Chase was silent for some time, lips perfectly quiet, eyes apparently fixed on her silvery hair.
“Helen, do you wish me to go on with my plot against Ferry?”
“Please do. Win him over to our side.”
“All right, you witch.”
And he lifted her bodily from where she sat, and folded her in his arms.
Chapter 25. Manganese
Next evening, having been invited to come to dinner and bring some blueprints, Jimmy Hogg quietly expressed his deep delight at his chum’s safe return. Three years had confirmed Jimmy’s thoroughbred countenance in all its native unmagnetic hardness, but there was faithful friendship hidden there.