Then we can learn what he has done--perhaps
he will have fixed everything himself." But though Jack went to
the station and waited until the arrival of the last train had
dropped its passengers, there was no sign of Garry. Nor did Ruth
find Corinne. She had gone to the city, so the nurse said, with
Mr. Minott by the early train and would not be back until the next
day. Until their return Jack and Ruth found their hands tied.
On the afternoon of the second day a boy called at the brick
office where Jack was settling up the final accounts connected
with the "fill" and the tunnel, preparatory to the move to
Morfordsburg, and handed him a note. It was from Corinne.
"I am in great trouble. Please come to me at once," it read. "I am
here at home."
Corinne was waiting for him in the hall. She took his hand without
a word of welcome, and drew him into the small room where she had
seen him two nights before. This time she shut and locked the
door.
"Mr. McGowan has just been here," she moaned in a voice that
showed how terrible was the strain.
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