Spelling it letter by letter he made out what he called 'Wiesbaden,' and knew it was some German town.

Did Gretchen live there, he wondered, and how could he find out, and what should he do?
He had not yet seen the child at the cottage, but from some things Harold said, he knew she was more like this picture than like the dead woman found with her, and in his heart he felt almost sure who she was, and that his course of duty was plain.

He ought to show Arthur the photograph, and tell him his suspicions, and take every possible step to ascertain who the woman was and where she came from.
Frank was not a bad man, nor a hard-hearted man, but he was ambitious and weak.

He had enjoyed money, and ease, and position long enough to make him unwilling to part with them now, while for his children he was more ambitious than for himself.

To see Tom master of Tracy Park was the great desire of his life, and this could not be, if what he feared were proved true.