"No; he said he would look out for a chance for me."
"It is curious Uncle Thomas feels such an interest in that boy," Webb said to himself, meditatively.
CHAPTER XXIV
MRS. MERTON PASSES A PLEASANT EVENING
Ambrose Kean called with Luke an evening or two later to thank Mrs. Merton in person for her kindness. They arrived ten minutes after Mrs. Tracy and Harold had started for Hooley's Theater, and thus were saved an embarrassing meeting with two persons who would have treated them frigidly.
They were conducted upstairs by the servant, and were ushered into Mrs. Merton's room.
Ambrose Kean was naturally ill at ease, knowing that Mrs. Merton was acquainted with the error he had committed. But the old lady received him cordially.
"I am glad to meet the son of my old schoolmate, Mary Robinson," she said.
"In spite of his unworthiness?" returned Ambrose, his cheek flushing with shame.