observed the child slightly and sometimes though seldom spoke of her appearance or asked after her health quite as if she were the daughter of people in whom she took no particular interest was informed of everything that occurred and his fears wore away gradually on the succeeding spring he took a short only a few days in extent and went with and a young nurse that he had engaged for the trip to here he bore the cross questioning in relation to his wife with to that she was not very well and did not feel like taking a journey mr and mrs drew welcomed the visitors warmly and was taken to their hearts without i thought you were going to tell the truth at any cost remarked one day when george bad just repeated the stock story about his wife s health to a person who stopped to speak to him i knew you would learn to like the rest of the world if you were only given a little time you did not understand me he answered i never said i should tell everything to who chose to bore me with questions i treat them in any way that seems best for the moment but to i shall never utter a deception whatever she asks me shall be answered as honestly as i can find words to express mrs had not been informed of her husband s intended journey and she did not ask about it until the second day where is your child she inquired of mrs after waiting as long as she thought advisable for the woman to say something of her own accord i have not seen her all day long the woman replied that she had gone out of town there was a dead silence for some minutes then mrs asked in a low tone if she would remain long i don t know exactly said mrs for this was what had told her to say in case she was the next day mrs came down earlier than usual and remained most of the morning after lunch she returned and stayed all the afternoon several times she went to the street windows and peered through the curtains as if she thought one of the passing had stopped at the door at night the light in her window on the second floor burned late on the other side of the street saw a white figure crouched at the sill out of in the morning she came down again early and watched the nurse as she received the mail from the noticing that she opened none of it after the addresses but neither did she any of it which intimated that the would soon return it was on the third day after this that mrs spoke again to mrs about the absent child she had been out for a walk and on her return she came into her husband s apartments without going first to her own rooms has your little girl got home yet she asked in a low voice not yet was the composed reply you you are expecting her no gathering up her mrs left the room and went upstairs the maid who served her reported to the cook that she did not touch the dinner during the evening dr who still attended the family when his services were required was sent for he told mrs when he came down that it was nothing serious no more than a severe attack of such as mrs was subject to where s he added shortly out of town replied the quiet i know that said the doctor with a snap u but where i want to write to him leave the letter here and i will send it the devil i will do nothing of the kind so he wants to keep his whereabouts a secret does he well i ll wait till he returns when is he coming i don t know w i never had a child the physician grew impatient confound it woman i don t mean to an hour or a minute is he coming within a day or two or will it be a month i don t know muttering something about dr beat a baffled retreat and mrs returned smiling to her sitting room midnight was striking on that very evening when the lost ones came home ascended the steps with his sleeping daughter in his arms and assisted the younger nurse to her and place her in her cot bed bending lovingly over her he was aroused from a reverie by mrs who had hurriedly a portion of her attire and hastened to see them both perfectly well he responded to her first inquiry never better in her life and how have you been yourself as usual she said we have all been well sir but but mrs she had the doctor twice m m what was the matter he said it was a nervous attack you see sir she was down here most of the time after you left and she asked after and i couldn t tell her how long you were to be away for you did not let me know exactly and she seemed very uneasy and when she went back upstairs she walked her room a good deal and that evening she had asked me again that evening she was taken and i could not answer her and she did not eat her dinner and then went for the doctor gazed at his sleeping child as our or if he envied the that hid her sweet eyes from him she asked for did she yes sir and she seemed very anxious sup pose you would not have liked me to tell hei anything would you the husband straightened up in his chair certainly not he said dr tried hard to find out where you were too continued the woman but he learned 