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Burlock gave him for what the poor man thought would be a possible clew to little Nellie's whereabouts, and to think that the disappointment killed the disheartened father!" "Well, I only hope they have him now," said Tavia, "I would like to have another chance at his hat." Then the conversation drifted back to North Birchland.
Ralph had often helped him home, and then tried to get the man to talk of reformation, but it seemed like a hopeless case. "Why should that strange man want the paper to keep quiet about Mrs. Douglass?" asked Dorothy. "Something about Burlock, perhaps," Ralph answered, thoughtfully.
Yes, charity is the love of God and our neighbor, and it was that love that led you to take the hand of that sick and discouraged man. Ralph told me how you brought him into the Bugle office that afternoon, and how that was the beginning of a new life to Burlock for he never tasted strong drink after that day."
"Daughter," he said, "Miles Burlock has passed away." "Dead!" gasped Dorothy. "Yes, dead. But he was happy, glad to go, although he left his task unfinished he had not found his wife and child." "What happened to him?" Dorothy asked, bewildered at the suddenness of her father's words. "He died from exhaustion as much as from any thing else.
"They have good news for us, Nellie," said the woman. "This child is Nellie Burlock, only child of Miles Burlock." Instantly Dorothy had her arms around the little girl. "To think we have really found you," she tried to say, but the words choked for very joy in her throat. "Have you any papers?" asked Squire Travers of the woman. "Yes," she answered, "and more than papers.
Douglass, of Dalton, died; she had charge of the money because Mr. Burlock was not considered capable of taking care of it himself." "And now," said Ned, "the major has it, and Anderson is trying to get it away by means of information he hopes to get from the major's daughter? Easy as a, b, c. But to whom is the money left?" "To an unknown or unfound daughter," said Dorothy.
"The real matter with which I would ask you to help me is the putting aside, now, of the money which is in my name, and which should be secured against enemies of my poor wife and daughter," said Miles Burlock. "I will never again trust anything to the uncertain time when they may be found, for I believe now they are being kept away from me by this same scoundrel, Andrew Anderson.
The man had denied his guilt at first, but finally broke down when confronted with the evidence against him and admitted he had the Burlock child in hiding, but she was now in charge of some woman. Dorothy was to go for her to-day. Mr. Travers, though having many important affairs to attend to, was on time, and he agreed to take Dorothy and Tavia with him to find Nellie.
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