246/297 We could see them if we did but turn aside for a moment into ways unfamiliar to our feet." "Did you learn who she was, and anything of her condition ?" asked Mr.Edwards. To do so was but a common dictate of humanity. I would have felt it as a stain upon my conscience to have left one like her uncared for in the circumstances under which we found her." "Did you accompany her home ?" "Yes; I went with her to the place she called her home--a room in which there was scarcely an article of comfort--and there learned the history of her past life and present condition. Does thee remember Belgrave, who carried on a large business in Maiden Lane some years ago ?" "Very well. But, surely this girl is not Mary Belgrave ?" "Yes. |