While he was attending to his affairs at the bank, Olaf secured information that Rossland was resting comfortably in the hospital and had not one chance in ten of dying.

It was not Alan's intention to see him.

He wanted to hear nothing he might have to say about Mary Standish.

To associate them in any way, as he thought of her now, was little short of sacrilege.

He was conscious of the change in himself, for it was rather an amazing upsetting of the original Alan Holt.