"There may or may not be, as you put it, money in this.

I have kept this child for close upon eight years, and during the last two the Orphanage has not received one penny of payment.

He was brought to us at the age of two by a seafaring man, who declared positively that the child was not his, that he was legitimate, and that he had relatives in good position.
The man would not tell me their names, but gave me his own and his address--a coast-guard station on the East coast.

You will pardon my keeping these back until I know that you will help me." "Go on." "Sufficiently good terms were offered, and for six years my charges were regularly met without question.

Then payment ceased.