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She laughed bitterly. "So have I, Weston. And to-day I have learned what
it really is. Help me, Weston! Take me back to the home of my making."
When he rang for her, she gave him an order: "Find Mr. John Haynes and
bring him here immediately."
"Bring him now, Madam?" he questioned.
"Immediately, I said," she repeated.
"I will try, Madam," said Weston.
"You will bring him at once if he is in Multiopolis," she said with
finality.
Weston knew that John Haynes was her lawyer; he had brought him from his
residence or office at her order many times; he brought him again. At once
John Haynes dismissed all the servants in the Minturn household, arranged
everything necessary, and saw Mrs. Minturn aboard a train in company with
a new maid of his selection; then he mailed a deed of gift of the Minturn
residence to the city of Multiopolis for an endowed Children's Hospital.
The morning papers briefly announced the departure and the gift. At his
breakfast table James Minturn read both items, then sat in deep thought.


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