CHAPTER XLI.
TIDINGS A few days after 'Lina's burial, there came three letters to Spring Bank, one to Mrs.Worthington from Murdock, as he now chose to be called, saying that though he had looked, and was still looking everywhere for the missing Adah, he could only trace her, and that but vaguely, to the Greenbush depot, where he lost sight of her entirely, no one after that having seen a person bearing the least resemblance to her.

After a consultation with the doctor, he had advertised for her, and he inclosed a copy of the advertisement, as it appeared in the different papers of Boston, Albany, and New York.
"If A---- H---- will let her whereabouts be known to her friends, she will hear of something to her advantage." This was the purport of Murdock's letter, if we except a kind of inquiry after 'Lina, of whose death he had not heard.
The second, for Alice, was from Anna Richards, who was also ignorant as yet of 'Lina's decease.

After inquiring kindly for the unfortunate girl, she wrote: "I have great hopes of my erring brother, now that I know how his whole heart goes toward his beautiful boy, our darling Willie.

I wish poor, dear Lily could have seen him when, on his arrival at Terrace Hill, he not only bent over, but knelt by the crib of his sleeping child, waking him at once, and hugging him to his bosom, while his tears dropped like rain.

I am sure she would have chosen to be his wife, for her own sake as well as Willie's.
"You know how proud my mother and sisters are, and it would surprise you, as it does me, to see them pet, and spoil, and fondle Willie, who rules the entire household, mother even allowing him to bring wheelbarrow, drum, and trumpet into the parlor, declaring that she likes the noise, as it stirs up her blood.