He could tell no more.

He showed what he had left of the furniture and tears filled Lord Mountdean's eyes as he saw among it a child's crib.

He liberally rewarded the man, and then set to work with renewed vigor to endeavor to find out Margaret Dornham's destination.
He went to the railway stations; and, though the only clew he succeeded in obtaining was a very faint one, he had some reason for believing that Margaret Dornham had gone to London.
In that vast city he continued the search, until it really seemed that every inch of ground had been examined.

It was all without result--Margaret Dornham and her little foster-child seemed to have vanished.
"What can be the woman's motive ?" the earl would cry, in despair.

"Why has she taken the child?
What does she intend to do with it ?" It never occurred to him that her great, passionate love for the little one was the sole motive for the deed she had done.
The papers were filled with appeals to Margaret Dornham to return to Castledene, or to give some intelligence of her foster-child.