"This matter must be settled, once and for all," he continues, addressing Harvey. "There can be but one head of the Paradise Coal Company. I wish to know if you will cease interfering with my orders?" "I have never objected to carrying out any order of yours that was legal. As long as I am in your employ I shall continue to do as I have done. But to tell you that I will do your bidding, whether legal or not, that is something I cannot bring myself to do," Trueman replies, looking the Coal King squarely in the eye. "I shall have no one in my employ who cannot obey me," Purdy says. He then rehearses what he has done for Trueman; how he has advanced him to the position of counsel to the company. "And all the thanks I receive is your opposition, now that I need your support," he states, and without waiting for a reply hurries from the room. When Ethel and Harvey go to the dining room they find that the irate Coal King has gone to his private apartment, where his dinner is being served. Harvey spends the evening at the mansion. As he and Ethel sit in the drawing room they discussed the events of the day, and speculate on the result that will follow the quarrel with her father. "My father will regret his hasty words," Ethel says. "He admires you and places absolute confidence in you. Only yesterday he told me that there was not another man in the world to whom he would confide his business secrets as he has done to you." The lovers go to the music room. Harvey's voice is a remarkably rich baritone. At Ethel's request he sings a ballad which he has recently composed. Standing at her side as she plays the accompaniment, he sings. "THE SEA OF DREAMS. "Sing me of love and dear days gone; Sing me of joys that are fled; Strike no chord of the now forlorn; None of the future dread, Ah, let thy music ring with tone That speaks the budding year; The Winter's blast too soon will moan Through the forest bleak and drear. Then sing but a line from the dear old days We sang 'neath the moon's soft beams, When we were young, in those gladsome days, While we sailed on the sea of dreams. There are no songs that reach the heart, Like those sung long ago. New singers and their songs depart; The old ones ne'er shall go. Nor is it strange that they should be As balm to the sad heart; They tell of love when it was young, And all its joys impart." At eleven o'clock Trueman leaves the Purdy mansion and goes to his hotel. To him it is clear that an irreparable breach has been made in the relations between himself and Gorman Purdy. He knows the unrelenting character of the President of the Paradise Coal Company.