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He bowed his head, and for a moment, was silent, then he looked at Dorothy again. "As you are the one chosen to help this man find himself for he has been morally lost for years, I feel it may be that you, too, may help me find my own child," Miles Burlock went on.
The fact that Miles Burlock had not appeared at the Dale home that morning, according to promise was of little interest to Dorothy now. Something might have happened to him. Of course, he certainly seemed determined to settle the business at once, but Dorothy's head and heart were too full of her school friends' troubles to give much thought to the Burlock matter.
"Yes, and I must confess I was proud to hear a dying man bless your name. He declared that you, a mere child, had saved him from a death of shame. I never knew Dorothy, until Ralph told me there at his bedside, that you had worked so hard to help in the crusade work, even speaking to men like Burlock, when they might not have known how to answer you."
I was with father when poor Mr. Burlock told us about it. He declared it was all the result of too much liberty in youth and bad company?" "Be warned, Nat, my boy," interrupted Ned, jokingly. "I must have the mater cut you down. 'And he rambled till the mater cut him down," hummed the brother, paraphrasing the butcher song. "Spare the allowance and cut anything else down you like," answered Nat.
And Ralph thinks perhaps there was some little girl in Miles' story, a daughter maybe and he suggested that I try my influence with Miles." "Did he cry like a baby over you?" teased Tavia, with poor appreciation of her friend's efforts to help along the Liquor Crusade. "Now please, Tavia, don't be absurd. There is something wonderfully winning about Mr. Burlock." "Of course there is.
"The entire boys' school hunted for him that day in the woods," added Tavia, "but he got away." "What on earth is he after?" went on Ned. "The Burlock money," promptly replied Dorothy. "At first we did not know that, but there is no doubt of it now.
Travers said at the meeting, "was, in some way, connected with the Douglass family. There is money in the affair, however it may concern Burlock and Mrs. Douglass, and this stranger is after the cash." "But what in the world has these children to do with that?" asked the chairman. Ralph Willoby stood up. "It seems, Mr.
"What in the world does he follow us for?" "It's all the Burlock business," Dorothy answered. "But hurry, we must give the alarm this time. Perhaps they will be able to catch him." Out of breath, and very much frightened, the girls reached the center of the village, going directly there instead of turning into a side street to go home. "Perhaps father is in his office," remarked Dorothy.
"Child," he said, extending his hand to her, "You need not fear Miles Burlock now. He is a man no longer a slave to rum but a wake at last." "I am so glad!" Dorothy stammered. "Yes, that day you took my hand, although it was not fit for yours, and the way you asked me to join in the League work came like a miracle of grace. Perhaps it is because because you are so like the child I lost."
"Oh, no, I am sure he meant it, for he grabbed my notes. He saw me reading them in the lane," Tavia paused an instant. "And really, poor Mrs. Douglass was a good woman. The servant girl told me how she had worked for that Miles Burlock, she had some special interest in him, and you know how he drinks." Unfortunately every one in Dalton knew only too well how Miles Burlock drank.
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