It dizzied him. Almost he lost control of himself before he dropped the telegram and went out.
Ellen picked it up. She thought in some way she must have handed him, instead of the business message, a telegram about himself; but she read again: "The Nucast business is safe." Only the business message; yet it had affected him more than all else this morning. Why? Why?
Holding it, she put away Mrs. Lytle's telegram. What it told was not so! The five words of this business message referred, she knew, to what had happened to Jay Rountree.
