The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-07-20
CHAPTER V1-tContinuedl

Near 'hoN ri leaving Timnerley, :"
he said.
IN very few weeks" replied.
NV eel. now, like thee. and | nun
come and hear thee praich afore thou
goes. l.e. mon. | ha' something hero
tho Ec produced an old pocketbook
and from one of the Ccmpart nents he
took square Of paslcboard which he
gave ne; happen that may come in
handy when thou goes back to London
l found ii III Lacroix's lane yond'
morcn year ago. and says I. 1 nun
keep this till | 90 to London but I
do not think I'll ever ride in first
class carriage, SO tloud'st better tax
it. mon
What is it, / asked
To be sure said he. thou Gonna
see. It's a frst-clasS ticket"
| thanked him, and put it in my pock-
ct
We were then upon the cottage in
which | had seen Frank Steinhardt sit
ting AT the piano. Sounds of music and
singing were again proceeding from it,,
and WAS not surprised to see that
many of those who had been disaD-
pointed by the nightingale stood list
cning III silence to the girl
When ] reached my lodgings I took
out the old fellows singular little pres
cnt. 1t was the return" half of a first
class railway ticket from London
Bridge to Croydon 1t was tolerably
clean it must have been thrown away.
or dropped soon after it was issued
and picked up soon after it was thrown
away. A suspicion which had begun
to creep upon me when first l looked
at it shot up with startling suddenness
when | turned it over and read the
date stamped on its near edge: MAR
Is s."
This ticket had been found by the
old man in Lacroix lane; had the per-
sen who had lost or dropped it thee
been the same rs the person who had
bought it in London: If he had. had
Lt be.n a resident in Timperlov? In
4 word-had me person been Mr.. La
croix? 1t was impossible to say, IN
til after such inquiry as ] saw little
chance of being able to make; for
though visitors to limp y seldom
passed along the i.acroix lane they
sometimes did | might however, dis
cover from Louise whether har father
had had any connection with Gloydon,
met her next day at Jaqness cot
tage I had almost given up my visits
to Timperley halh. After again an
swering in tie negative her constant
Question as to II sWs from Freeman |
began my attempt to get at this point
40 +iat. wished 10
avoid raising in her undue susp.clea.
DO YOU still wish, | asked, 10 80
to London yourselfs'
Il do" said she, but | take your
advice and wait.
.If YOU went" | continued. where
would you stay Have you any friends
in London
L hoped" said she, shyly, you would
tell me somewhere to 60.
You have. then" said |, no friends
about London, or anywhere round! IL
is not necessary. you know, that you
should live in London to follow up III
quiries.
WELL" said she. Il know two or
three Girls living in London who We're
at school with me in Croydon, bEt
think ! could not ask them
Imagine how my heart 'eapeo
was afraid l showed my emotion IN
nv look and tone ! quickly urged an
other question
.l,roydon is not fa~ from London,
might not your old school mistress take
you in.' :. -, 49,,
II did not think OF that, said she:
| ~ was there for only a year, after !
loft school in Paris. | had only peeh
home three months when father Went
away
/ had learned more than | could have
anticipated. Here, surely, at length
was the strongest presumphve, II mol
cirect evidence that Mr. Lacrolx, ana
not another. had dropped the ticket
ana therefore that he had come nome
I imagined him travelling 1rom LoAuon
Bridge to Croydon to pay, perhai's' llis
daughters school bill, ana re-urhHis
different way. although he had taken
. roturn ticket to London Bridge. rms
struck me as agreeing with all ! mao
haard Of Mr. Lacroix-careless o.
,nanav and without much steady con
sistent purpose. How easily such
.,,.n must have become subject TO the
resolute Steinhardt. -.
- accurred to me that it would mol
he impossible to learn from 'ne Sius
dan school mistress whether NJ. 20
oraix a had called on her.s With a rev
e,,,actions rs to the size, SITUATION ano
CHARACTER of the school, ! learned 1ns
name and address OF the school ms
tress: and as soon as ! returned 70 10y
lodgings wrote to her, "a ,ile sseono
morning after | received neI leinn
nv; piah ! treasured along with the rail
VIZ ,;elet as invaluable evidences
Vito VII note presenting compliments ane
hoa hnon.ing 10 inform that on referring te
nes pesIn hooks and her diary, she found thai
Mr. Mr. 'I Lacroix had called and pad : :
,arms mr, charges for his DAUGHTERS Il I'm 2
iern is,,ine. education. on Wednesday
March the fifteenth, eighteen hundred
ond cjQlt-tWO.