“I’ll get the divorce, thank you! I’ve taken this sort of thing lying down long enough. I said get out!”

“Come on, Mil,” ordered Silas. “I know a place we can go for to-night. How long’ll it take you to get that divorce, Nat?”

III

Ted Thorne, in the library of his home at ten-thirty that night, beheld the face of his young salesman with anxiety.

“For heaven’s sake, Nat, what’s the matter? Sick?”

“No, just a bit upset, that’s all, Ted. You wired me to come home in a hurry and I forgot to telegraph my wife. I reached the house to find——”

“Yes?”

“That she loved that Plumb fellow—the steam-fitter that works for Holcomb.”

“You caught them?”

“Yes. I caught them!”