"Me—in a ward!"
She nodded. "You're lonesome, aren't you?"
He looked at her with sudden thought. "You didn't know my boy has come!" he said.
Aunt Jane stopped. "Your boy?"
"My boy—Julian! I told you!"
"You said Julian was in Europe—" replied Aunt Jane.
"He came this morning!" The millionaire's voice laughed. "Walked right in through that door—without a word!" He nodded to it—as if still seeing the boy coming toward him.
Aunt Jane looked at the door and then at the man's face, and smiled.
"I told you Europe wasn't so very far off," she said. "But I didn't know it was quite so near you as that!"