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DONALD WELLS came to St. John's Wood to consult his friend: and found John Leith a broken man. There was no need for Wells to tell the story of his failure. Leith had read it all in the tone of his daughter. He turned on the doctor with weak fury.
"It's something you said to her, something you let out, you damned fool! " he shouted. "All that I've worked for, all I've stood for -- gone!"