He found both his arms grasped by Jordan King's strong hands, and he allowed himself to be held tightly by that happy young man. "Give us your best wishes!" demanded his captor.
"Why, you've had those from the first. I saw this coming before either of you," Burns replied.
"Not before I did," asserted King.
"Not before I did," declared Anne.
Then the two looked at each other, and Burns, smiling at them, his hazel eyes very bright, requested to be restored the use of his arms. This being conceded, he laid those arms about the shoulders before him and drew the two young people close within them.
"You two are the most satisfactory and the dearest patients I've ever had," declared Red Pepper Burns.