Dear Friend:
You are to consider that all which has taken place since Sunday is as if it had never happened.
Come to me to-morrow, at ten.
Jenny.
Enclosing the note in an envelope addressed to Blake, she gave it to a servant for immediate delivery. As soon as the man left the room, she went to the telephone and arranged for a private consultation with one of the most eminent physicians in the city.
CHAPTER XXIV
THE WAY OF A WOMAN
Blake was humped over his desk, his fingers deep in his hair, and his forehead furrowed with the knotted wrinkles of utter weariness and perplexity, as his eyes pored over the complex diagrams and figures jotted down on the plan before him.
Griffith came shuffling into the room in his old carpet slippers. He looked anxiously at the bent form across the desk from him, and said: "See here, Tommy, what's the use of wasting electricity?"
Blake stared up at him, blear-eyed with overstudy and loss of sleep.