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CHAPTER VI. A TALE AND A DISCOVERY. THE directness with which the disreputable old per- son had arrived at the purpose lying back ef the search did not please Dick. He feared Barber would endeavor to engraft himself upon the enterprise, for evidently he expected profit to arise out of his know- ledge. Dick would have been less pleased had he known that the old dancer, with a view to further pay- ments, had concealed several essential points: one that Dugdale had informed him of his relationship to Mr. Hetlow; another that from time to time, both before and after Dugdale’s death, Mrs. Tomlinson had cared for the child, and still another that the child had been adopted by some person. The old ballet-master was not a vicious person, but his necessities drove him hard and his mind was filled with visions of a great fortune, a small portion of which he thought he could divert to himself. On the afternoon of the day Barber had called on Dick, a letter arrived for the latter, which however was not received by him until the following morning. It was from the lawyer, Mr. Stanton, informing him that he had been successful in his search for the owner of the property at the time Dugdale had occu- pied a room under its roof, and that he hoped ina short time to find the name of the person who had rented the house during that year. Dick had hardly digested the contents of this letter, when Barber entered the office and inquired for him. ‘“Well,’’ he said, ‘‘I have found Mrs. Tomlinson, 54 Comicloeo® S C@ 3