"I do, too; but as long as he is not, you must trust me to do what I think best."
He went out abruptly, and Helen Waldstricker cried herself to sleep.
CHAPTER XXIV
Waldstricker Interferes
That evening Frederick Graves shook in his shoes when he returned home and received Waldstricker's message to meet him in the library at nine o'clock. If there was one person in the world he didn't want to see just then, it was his dictatorial brother-in-law. He stood in his room considering the situation, when he heard the grandfather's clock on the stairs slowly strike the hour of nine.
"Well, it won't help any to keep him waiting," he muttered.
Unwillingly, he walked down the stairs to the library door. Pausing, he saw Ebenezer seated at the table reading the Bible.
"Come in and sit down," greeted the latter, curtly.