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"But he won't be no prettier for it," say the gossips of the neighborhood. Esther Lockwin has been confined to her room for a month by Dr. Tarpion's orders. The servants say she will not enter a carriage again. David Lockwin has hired an extra clerk, and is daily under a surgeon's hands.
David Lockwin thinks of Tarpion's threat about a claimant. It grows clear to him that there is a Chicagoan alive who can view his own cenotaph, his own memorial hospital, his own home who can proclaim himself to be the husband, and yet there will be men like Tarpion who will deny all. Lockwin's face annoys him. "Why was I such a fool to go without the proper treatment in that outlandish region!
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