Chapter 36 No.36

When Maurice saw his wife the next morning, it was with Mrs. Houghton's warning-emphasized by the presence of a nurse-that he must not excite her. So he sat at her bedside and told her about his trip, and how he had got ahead of the Greenleaf heirs, and how he rushed back to Mercer the minute those dispatches came saying that she was ill-and he nev