I made mother believe it; but she never recovered from the shock, and six weeks after your visit, I was alone with my two girls, Densie and Adaline.

I could not attend to them both, and so I sent one to Eliza and kept the other myself, hiring a housekeeper, and to prevent being dogged by Densie again, I passed as Mr.Monroe Gordon, guardian to the little child whom I loved so much." "That was Adah," fell in the whisper from the doctor's lips, but caught the ear of no one.
All were too intent upon the story, which proceeded: "She grew, and grew in beauty, my fair, lovely child, and I was wondrously proud of her, giving her every advantage in my power.

I sent her to the best of schools, and even looked forward to the day when she should take the position she was so well fitted to fill.

After she was grown to girlhood we boarded, she as the ward, I as the guardian still, and then one unlucky day I stumbled upon you, Dr.John, but not until you had first stumbled upon my daughter, and been charmed with her beauty, passing yourself as some one else--as George Hastings, I believe--lest your fashionable associates should know how the aristocratic Dr.Richards was in love with a poor, unknown orphan, boarding up two flights of stairs." "Who is he talking about, Hugh?
Does he mean me?
My head throbs so, I don't quite understand," 'Lina said, piteously, while Hugh held the poor aching head against his bosom, crushing the orange blossoms, and whispering softly: "He means Adah." "Yes, Adah," the convict rejoined.

"John Richards fancied Adah Gordon, as she was called, but loved his pride and position more.