Mrs. Cameron was anxious for her husband to come with the doctor. And she desired Mr. Cameron's presence for another reason. She looked about the apartment for something that might identify this young couple--that might prove her suspicions true; suspicions that she had felt from the very first. She found the evidence she looked for. Carolyn May was playing with the baby and keeping him quiet when her father and a neighbouring doctor came. She brought the baby out into the kitchen and sat down with him in her lap while Prince crouched beside her. He knew that something had gone altogether wrong with his little mistress' friend. They raised the pale lady and placed her on the bed. Mrs. Cameron helped the physician loosen and remove her clothing. But first she showed Mr. Cameron the marriage certificate she had found in a Bible on a side table. "My goodness! will wonders never cease?" murmured Carolyn's father. "And I never suspected it!" "It is what I believed must be the fact ever since you told me how Mr. Bassett acted regarding his first assignment on the _Beacon_. Now go out and telephone to the office, Lewis, and have him come up here at once." She went back to the bedside where the physician was some time in bringing the patient to her senses. "A very nervous and frail person, Mrs. Cameron," the medical man said. "No more fit to live in a place like this than a butterfly is fit to live in a cage." "And you know, Prince," murmured Carolyn May who overheard this professional statement, "butterflies aren't even like birds. Of course, butterflies would just pine away, like Aunty Rose Kennedy's babies, if they were caged up." CHAPTER IX THE GRIFFIN The doctor went away and came back again before the pale lady's husband, for whom Mr. Cameron telephoned, arrived at the little apartment. The patient was then better, but still very weak. "A general breakdown," said the physician to Mr. Cameron. "No more than I expected. I have treated her now and then--and the baby. He is a fine little fellow, but not robust. How could he be? "I've got to tell that young man a thing or two. He can't keep this woman and the child here--" "And why does he? I happen to know that he is earning a fair salary," Mr. Cameron said. "Yes. He is--_now_. But they are burdened with debts. At the time the baby was born they got very deeply into debt. You can see what sort they are. Come of wealthy families, both of them. Trouble somewhere. And the young folks did not know how to help themselves, nor what to do. Not as poor people do. After all, the poor have the best of it when it comes to work and living," said the practical physician.