"Alfred says he thinks his kind-heartedness is about cured! It seems that as soon as the man got well again he deliberately walked off with the old gentleman's glue secret.

Just calmly stole it! Alfred says he believes that if he had a stroke in the office now, himself, his father wouldn't lift a finger to help him!" Mrs.Palmer repeated the name to herself thoughtfully.

"'Adams'-- 'Virgil Adams.' You said his name was Virgil Adams ?" "Yes." She looked at her daughter.

"Why, you know who that is, Mildred," she said, casually.

"It's that Alice Adams's father, isn't it?
Wasn't his name Virgil Adams ?" "I think it is," Mildred said.
Mrs.Palmer turned toward her husband.