Early this morning Aunt Mary and Bill Mead had arrived in Chicago. They intended to search for Mario, who had injured his wife in a jealous quarrel. Afterward, when Carla lay unconscious, Mario had believed himself to be a murderer and fled from Wakefield. His disappearance, coupled with the rumours Ben Calvert had maliciously spread about Bill, had resulted in the young man being forced to resign from his position at the bank, and that meant that Bill and Peggy couldn't be married as they'd planned...