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A’ GALE AMO A DISCOVERY. 55 after a good search I can tell you. Her husband is dead, but the old ale house is still in existence, kept by the man who bought it from her after her husband’s death.”’ ‘‘What is her address?’’ sharply asked Dick, cutting the old man short in the tale of the search he was pre- paring to give in detail. To answer so directly was not the purpose of the old man. Ignoring Dick’s question, he said: *‘Mrs, Tomlinson recollects the Dugdales well. It was she who buried Mrs. Dugdale and took the baby home with her after the funeral. But she thinks the baby was adopted out by Mr. Dugdale, but as she did not see much of him after his wife’s death, she is not clear on this point. I don’t believe we will get much out of her, but in thinking this matter over - ‘‘Give me her address,’’ demanded Dick impera- tively. Dick was ruthlessly destroying the schemes the old man had so laboriously builded. Mrs. Tomlinson was a sharp old woman, having httle confidence in her former employer. ‘Therefore she had not been at all communicative. Barber, appreciating. this, leaped to the conclusion that she possessed information most desirable, and used all the tact and diplomacy he could employ, but without avail. The greater the effort he put forth, the firmer became her determina- tion to keep her own counsel. With a shrewdness superior to his own she induced the old ballet-master to tell that he was making the inquiry on behalf of a Mr. Mason, who was an agent of Mr. Hetlow. The latter name aroused her recollections and she recalled that Edmund Dugdale had more than once told her of his relationship to a man of that name. Barber was finally compelled to retire, but he did so with the de- termination to return again to the attack, and again and again, until he had finally succeeded. But Dick’s imperative ways were destroying his plans. Connie INOO S 3