"I am glad to be back," answered Mrs. Vernon.
Robert was soon back in his old room, and the expressman brought in the trunks. By night the youth was as much settled as he had ever been, and the same can be said of the lady who had made him her private secretary.
Mrs. Vernon's first move in the morning was to settle domestic affairs. Two days later Mr. Farley called upon her, and her next move was to attend a meeting of the stockholders of one of the companies in which she was interested.
"If you wish you can take a run home, Robert," she said, before going away.
"I thought, if you did not mind, I would go home over next Sunday," he replied.
"Then you can do that. But I shall not need you to-day."
"Then I'll take a walk downtown and see how matters look."
Before going out Robert wrote a long letter to his mother, telling of his adventures in England, and stating when he was coming home.
As he had done with the other letters, he marked this for Personal Delivery only, and sent it in care of the postmaster at Granville, that his step-father might not get hold of it.
His first call was at Mr. Gray's office, where he found Livingston Palmer behind the desk as usual.