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"I have an inventory of everything the doctor's house contained it was taken the day after his death," said Mr. Grey; "we can look through that." Item after item was most carefully perused. The list contained no mention of a small oaken box. It was quite plain that box and papers had both disappeared. "Could the doctor have given them into Mrs. Dornham's charge?" asked the earl.
Just three years had elapsed since Lady Charlewood had died; and then the great trouble of her life came to Margaret Dornham. On the day after Dr. Letsom's death, Margaret Dornham's husband was apprehended on a charge of poaching and aiding in a dangerous assault on Lord Turton's gamekeepers. Bail was refused for him, but at the trial he was acquitted for want of evidence.
"Then tell me, for pity's sake, where she is!" cried the earl, in an agony of impatience. "I cannot. Two months since I was at Ashwood Cottage Margaret Dornham's worthless husband was in some great trouble. I went to console his wife; and then I saw the little one. I held her in my arms, and thought, as I looked at her, that I had never seen such a lovely face.
He showed what he had left of the furniture and tears filled Lord Mountdean's eyes as he saw among it a child's crib. He liberally rewarded the man, and then set to work with renewed vigor to endeavor to find out Margaret Dornham's destination.
She knew that all efforts were in vain there was no good in him; still more she knew now that there never had been such good as she had hoped and believed. Another thing pleased and interested the doctor it was Margaret Dornham's passionate love for her foster child.
Besides his great love for the little Madaline, he became interested in the story of Margaret Dornham's life in her love for the handsome, reckless ne'er-do-well who had given up work as a failure in her wonderful patience, for she never complained in her sublime heroism, for she bore all as a martyr. He heard how Henry Dornham was often seen intoxicated heard that he was abusive, violent.
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