I am doing what is best for us both.
Thank me, and forget me." She leaped from the bed with one bound, and, bare of foot and in her nightgown only, rushed to the telephone.

She called up the Arkwrights, asked for Grant.

"Wake him," she said.

"If he is still in bed tell him Miss Severence wishes to speak to him at once." Within a moment Grant's agitated voice was coming over the wire: "Is that you, Rita?
What is the matter ?" "Come out here as soon as you can.

How long will it be ?" "An hour.