"I can make no terms with you for any antecedent reward.

The child must be in my possession and his parentage clearly proved before I give you a dollar.

As to what may follow to yourself, your safety will lie in your own silence.

You hold, and will still hold, a family secret that we shall not care to have betrayed.

If you should ever betray it, or seek, because of its possession, to annoy or prey upon us, I shall consider all honorable contract we may have at an end, and act accordingly." "Will you put in writing, an obligation to pay me one thousand dollars in case I bring the child and prove its identity ?" "No; but I will give you my word of honor that this sum shall be placed in your hands whenever you produce the child." Mrs.Bray remained silent for a considerable time, then, as if satisfied, arose, saying, "You will hear from me by to-morrow or the day after, at farthest.
Good-morning." As she was moving toward the door Mr.Dinneford said, "Let me have your name and residence, madam." The woman quickened her steps, partly turning her head as she did so, and said, with a sinister curl of the lip, "No, I thank you, sir." In the next moment she was gone..