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58 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS. had again cared for the babe. She had found Dug: dale distressed and despairing. He talked of finding a good home for the child and yielding it up, as the best thing he could do for it. While she had the child the second summer, Dugdale suddenly died, and at first she supposed the child would fall to her to bring up. It was her custom to spend a portion of the day in Union Square, where she met a lady who the summer before had been attracted to the child, and who now learning from Mrs. Tomlinson its home- less condition, expressed a desire to adopt it. She had brought her husband to Mrs. Tomlinson the next day to make the proposition, which was not ac- cepted, because Mrs. Tomlinson wanted first to consult her husband. When the husband came home it was with the announcement that they must prepare for a journey to Montreal, where he had taken an engage- ment. They concluded that the best disposition they could make of the child was to permit this lady to take it, and busy as her husband was he went out to make inquiries, which satisfied them that the lady and her husband were proper persons to take the child. As their time was limited, and as the people with whom Dugdale had lodged at the time of his death were very kindly and respectable people, they determined to carry the child, with the address of the lady and gentleman, to them, and ask them to attend to the details of its settlement. This had been done, and Mrs. Tomlinson had been subsequently informed that the transfer had been accomplished and that the baby was in a good home. And that was the last she had heard of it, for when she returned, the people in the MacDougall Street house had moved away and she had lost all trace of them. **Do you recollect the name?’’ asked Dick. **Yes, it was Powers. None of their old neighbors knew positively where they had moved to, but there was a belief it was to Newark.” Comicloeo S C@ 3