He saw the new peril into which he was thrown by the loss of Andy, and made it his first business to surround him with all possible good and strengthening influences.

So the old memories awakened by the coming of Andy did not fade out and lose their power over the man.

He had taken hold of the good past again, and still held to it with the tight grasp of one conscious of danger.
"We shall find the child--no fear of that," Mr.Dinneford would say to him over and over again, trying to comfort his own heart as well, as the days went by and no little Andy could be found.

"The police have the girl under the sharpest surveillance, and she cannot baffle them much longer." George Granger left the asylum with his friends, and dropped out of sight.

He did not show himself in the old places nor renew old associations.