"But she has a school," he went on, his face falling a little, "and there is a son." "I have thought of that," the sergeant said.

"The school enables them to live, but it cannot do much more, so that I should think she would feel no reluctance at giving that up." "Money would be no object," the squire said.

"I am a wealthy man, Mr.
Wilks, and have been laying by the best part of my income for the last eight years.

I would pay any salary she chose, for the comfort of such an arrangement would be immense, to say nothing of the advantage and pleasure it would be to the child.

But how about the boy ?" "We both owe a good deal to the boy, squire," the sergeant said gravely, "for if it had not been for him, the child would have been lost to us." "So she was telling me last night," the squire said.