"I am feeling better, but not very strong yet. I worry so much because I can't remember. If I could only get my memory back I believe I would be myself again." "Can't you remember anything that happened before the accident?" "No, nothing; except that I had a safe with money in it, but I can't remember where the safe was. I can remember part of the combination. It was two turns to the right then to the left to forty----" "How do you do, Harold." "Good evening, Ruth." "Here, take my chair, Ruth; I am going inside, if you will excuse me, Mr. King." "Ruth," said Harold, "I have something of interest to tell you. I heard it in the early afternoon and could scarcely wait until evening." "I have something of importance to talk to you about and am so glad you came, but first you tell me what you were going to tell of interest. You have my curiosity aroused, and you know that when a woman's curiosity is aroused she must know at once." "Here goes, then," he said, laughing. "I have reason to believe that you are going to have your salary increased." "That sounds good, but where did you get your information?" Harold then told her of his conversation with Wilson and of Wilson's report that Stover would probably raise her salary soon. "Oh, that will be fine! I thank you so much. I wouldn't have asked you and Mr. Wilson to have done so much, but since you have I certainly appreciate it. I am so anxious to see if anything can be done for father." "Well, here is hoping that you will get a raise within the next few days." "Will you please thank Mr. Wilson for me? What I wanted to talk to you about is the Ku Klux Klan." "That's a common subject of conversation nowadays. I hear it being discussed everywhere on the streets." "Mr. Stover called all the men employees of the bank into his office this evening and told them that any one and every one of them who joins the Ku Klux Klan will be discharged." "Are you sure of that?" "Yes, I heard two of the men speak of it after the meeting." "What are Stover's objections to the Klan?" "I do not know what he told the men, but I have heard him say that it is an organization of outlaws and that it is a great money-making scheme for the promoters. I told him that my grandfather had belonged to the old Ku Klux Klan in Virginia. He said that some good people had been connected with the old order but that this present organization is very different; that it has all of the vices and none of the virtues of the old order." "He may be right, and then again he may be wrong. There is going to be a public lecture four miles west of town Friday night and I am going to hear a representative of the organization explain it."