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My! we are becoming famous travelers!" Very late that night Major Dale still sat at his desk. It was a serious matter for him to allow his only daughter to go into a strange city and then to a police court to identify a criminal. But how else could he carry out his sacred obligation to Burlock? How else could he fulfill his duty to the lost child? And Dorothy too, was troubled that night.
That man Anderson was glaring into her eyes! Dorothy screamed shrilly. "Hush!" commanded the man, "or I'll throw you over the falls!" and his hand was upon Dorothy's throat, preventing further outcry. "Tell me," he growled, "did Miles Burlock leave his money with your father?" Poor Dorothy felt as if the world had gone, and all the woes of death were upon her!
"We must hurry, your father will soon be here. And how anxious I am to go to that place. What if the man has deceived the police as he did poor Mr. Burlock?" "No danger. He is caught in his own trap now, and his only hope is from good behavior they make it lighter for him as he makes it easier to clear up the case. I heard pop talking to the folks last night about it."
I am horribly short shore dinner this week you know." "And there's Nellie," resumed Ned, determined to get at the bottom of the Burlock story. "Now she's to have money. What do you say, Nat, if we get on the case? Nellie might make it all right, you know." "Great scheme, boy," said Nat, "you do the finding and I will act as your attorney." "Isn't there any clue?" asked Ned.
"Burlock!" repeated the major, and he looked pained somehow; distressed at the mere mention of the name. "I thought perhaps it might be the party you that is, the woman wanted in the Burlock matter," faltered Dorothy. "I am afraid, daughter," said the major very solemnly, "you have been bothering your young head about affairs much too grave for you to handle.
That man Anderson had sent him word to go to Buffalo for 'news. Believing the message meant good news, that of locating the wife and child, Burlock went, but not before he had legally made me guardian of the lost daughter, and put in my charge the estate that had lately come directly into his hands through the death of Mrs. Douglass.
"Cheer up, brother," he said, "There may yet be time. Life is with you still." "Ah, but have I not searched all this week? And did not that man promise to take me to them?" Dorothy had shrunk back when Mr. Burlock said the man who had put terror in her own life was the same person who had destroyed his happiness. Then it was as Ralph said, Miles Burlock did figure in the mysterious case.
The dangers of the country to children who venture too far out in the fields and woods were shown in the startling experience Dorothy and Tavia had when Miles Anderson, a cunning lunatic, followed them from place to place, terrifying them with the idea of obtaining from Dorothy some information which would enable him to get control of some money left to a little orphan Nellie Burlock.
This was by far the most intelligent account of the affair yet given, and after its recital many of the men thought they could see a solution of the mystery. "But how do you associate all this with Miles Burlock?" Ralph was questioned by the chairman: "I know Mrs. Douglass had a special interest in that man," went on Ralph.
"I was just thinking the same thing of you," replied Dorothy, laughing. "That was a case of great minds running in similar trenches," said the father. "Now, we are going to have a good, long chat," began Dorothy, leaning against the arm of the major's chair so that her head touched his shoulder. "First, I want to tell you some news Tavia has heard of a woman in Rochester named Burlock!"
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