upon your knees dear lady ihe girl that you had friends to care for and keep you in your childhood and that you were never in the midst of cold and hunger and riot and and � and something than all � as i have been from my cradle i may use aa word for the alley and the were mine as they will l� my i pity you said rose in a broken voice it my heart to hear you heaven bless you for your goodness rejoined the if you knew what i am sometimes you would pity me indeed but i have stolen away from those who would surely murder me if they knew i had been here to teu you what i have overheard do you know a man named no said rose twist l� he knows you replied the girl and knew you were here for it was by hearing him tell the place that i found you out i never heard the name said rose then he goes by some other amongst us rejoined the girl which i more thought before sometime ago and soon after was put into your house on the night of the robbery i � suspecting this man � to a held between him and in the dark i found out from what i heard that � the man i asked you about you know � yes said rose i understand � that pursued the girl had seen him with two of our boys on the day we first lost him and had known him directly to be the same child that he was watching for though i couldn t make out why a bargain was struck with that if was got back he should have a certain sum and he was to have more for making him a thief which this wanted for some purpose of his own for what purpose asked rose he caught sight of my shadow on the wall as i listened in the hope of finding out said the girl and there are not many people besides me that could have got out of their way in time to escape discovery but i did and i saw him no more till last night and what occurred then i u tell you lady last night he came again again they went up stairs and i myself up so that my shadow should not betray me again listened at the door the first words i heard say were these so the only proofs of the boy s identity lie at the bottom of the river and the old that received them from the mother is in her coffin they laughed and talked of his success in doing this and talking on about the boy and getting very wild said that though he had got the young devil s money safely now he d rather have had it the other way for what a game it would have been to have brought down the boast of the father s will by driving him through every jail in town and then him up for some capital which could easily manage after having made a good profit of him besides what is all this said rose twist the truth lady though it comes from my lips replied the girl then he said with oaths common enough in mv ears but strange to yours that if he gratify his hatred by the boy s life without bringing his own neck in danger he would but as he couldn t he d be upon the watch to meet him at every turn in life and if he took advantage of his birth and history he might harm him yet in short he jew as you are you never laid such as i contrive for my yoimg brother his brother exclaimed rose those were his words said glancing uneasily as she had scarcely ceased to do since she began to i speak for a vision of haunted her perpetually and more when he spoke of and the other lady and said it seemed contrived by heaven or the devil against him that should come into your hands he laughed and said there was some comfort in that too for how many thousands and of thousands of pounds would you not if you had them to know who your two legged was you do not mean said rose turning very pale to teu me that this was said in earnest he spoke in hard and angry earnest if a v an ever did replied the girl shaking her head he is an earnest man when his hatred is up i know many who do worse things but i d rather listen to them au a dozen times than to that once it is growing late and i have to reach home without suspicion of having been on such an errand as this i must get back quickly but what can i do said rose to what use can i turn this communication without you back do yon wish to return to companions you paint in such colours if you repeat this information to a gentleman whom i can summon in an instant from the next room yon can be consigned to some place of safety without half an hour s delay i wish to go back said the girl i must go back because � how can i tell such things to an innocent lady like you � because among the men i have told you of there v one the most desperate among them all that i can t leave no not even to be saved the life i am leading now your having interfered in this dear boy s behalf before said rose your coming here at so great a risk to as twist what you have heard your manner which me of the truth of what you say your evident and sense 