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The girl looked up quickly at the speaker, whose tones seemed unnecessarily
vehement.
"I don't quite understand," she said, "why you should take the matter so to heart.
Father is the best judge of his own condition, and, while he may need a rest, I
cannot see that he is in any immediate danger."
"
Oh, well," replied Bince irritably, "I just wanted him to get away for his own sake.
Of course, it don't mean anything to me."
"
What's the matter with you tonight, anyway, Harold?" she asked a half an hour
later. "You're as cross and disagreeable as you can be."
"No, I'm not," he said. "There is nothing the matter with me at all."
But his denial failed to convince her, and as, unusually early, a few minutes later
he left, she realized that she had spent a most unpleasant evening.
Bince went directly to his club, where he found four other men who were
evidently awaiting him.
"
Want to sit in a little game to-night, Harold?" asked one of them.
"Oh, hell," replied Bince, "you fellows have been sitting here all evening waiting
for me. You know I want to. My luck's got to change some time."
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