Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 90: what you’re looking at

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GUY HAMMERSLEY. St He had been brought there from Johnstown, where his home and all his relatives had been swept away by the flood.” ‘‘And their name was——”’ Mrs. Hammersley interposed. “Colburn,” answered the judge. ‘‘ Do you rec- ognize it?” ‘‘No,” responded the other. ‘‘ But if we could find papers giving an account’of the accident, and discovered it there, 1 am sure you would ask for no further proof.” ‘“No, I could not do so, madam,” responded the judge, gravely. ‘‘ But perhaps you can realize what it would mean to me to give up Reginald now. I have never seen a more lovable child, and yet with all that I have done for him he seems to be not in the least spoiled.” ‘‘ What does he say about his life in Johnstown?” asked Mrs. Hammersley. ‘‘ Was the family to which he belonged in good circumstances? ” ‘‘T understand so, and the boy has had an excellent grounding in his studies.” ‘‘Why, then, was it necessary to send him to an orphan asylum?” queried the lady, adding eagerly: ‘‘Don’t you see that this bears on my side of the case? Any of the friends, their lives spared by the terrible flood, but their property destroyed, may have had doubts all along about the child’s being a real Colburn, and now that they were forced to begin the world again, taken this opportunity of getting rid of a boy that was very possibly no kintothem. I can’t account in any other way for their allowing such a GEomichboo cS (E(0) m