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"Oh indeed, father," she hurried to say, "I am sure Mr. Burlock was not intoxicated half the time others thought he was. He seemed so sad always and would sit on a bench, just thinking of his child perhaps, when people called him 'drunk'!" and the girl's eyes flashed indignantly at the thought. "Well, well, daughter; you were right in showing charity.
"But please do not interrupt again." "Then it seems," went on Dorothy, "Mr. Burlock had a lot of money left him. From that time on this Anderson followed Mr. Burlock and even succeeded in separating him from his family." "But how did Burlock hold on to the cash all that time?" asked Ned. "Oh, that was kept for him. He only had the interest of it. But lately a Mrs.
"I don't think he ever saw the man," Dorothy answered thoughtfully. "But I saw him very distinctly. Wouldn't I do?" "You? Why, child, could you go into a big police court and say: 'There, that's the man; without fainting from fright?" "Indeed, I could," declared the girl. "I could do more than that to find Nellie Burlock." "If I really thought so "
"I am sure I cannot guess," answered Dorothy, "but I feel certain it is about that affair that we are called home in such a hurry. I wish I could soon keep the promise I made to poor Mr. Burlock. I said I would some day find his daughter Nellie, and it does seem the detectives have been a long time in finding any tangible clew.
The mother was gone now and Dorothy was sitting there. "Ah, well!" sighed the major, trying to hide his thoughts, "we must talk of something pleasant." "But the Burlock affair," ventured Dorothy. "I thought it would be splendid to think of finding them. I have not seen Mr. Burlock in some time. What do you suppose has become of him?" Major Dale took Dorothy's hand into his own.
She felt a tear fall upon it; and she knew that all her prayers and all her efforts to save this man from his evil ways had not been in vain, and with the happiness that comes always in the knowledge of good accomplished, a new resolve came into her heart she would some day find Nellie Burlock.
"Her name is Nellie or Helen Burlock, and it was in hopes of locating her, upon a false clew which Anderson sent, that poor Mr. Burlock met his death." "But Dorothy had him all fixed for heaven," said Tavia. "Yes, if ever a man died, hoping to be forgiven, it was Miles Burlock. Those who were with him said so, and it was all Dorothy's doings.
"This man may be in with the drinking class, and perhaps if Burlock read anything or heard it, somehow he might go to the Douglass house, and they say Death is a great teacher. I know Mrs. Douglass often befriended Burlock." "Then let him blow the office up!" cried Dorothy, with sudden courage. "Father never listened to threats! Tavia, can you remember some of the important facts?
Father hired two of the best he could get to trace the child that was her mother who died, the one you told me of, you know. I did not talk about it because father thought it was best to say nothing that might possibly give Anderson a hint that they were on his track." "And have they tracked him?" asked Tavia. "Yes, they know he left Mr. Burlock in Rochester. He cashed a check there that Mr.
"Aunt Libby sick," was Dorothy's first thought and exclamation. "The Rochester case," declared Tavia. "That means the Burlock mystery is going to be cleared up." "The major did not, of course, hint at the nature of his business, but I am really so sorry to lose you just now. And the boys at camp they will be painfully disappointed," said Mrs. White.
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