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The acquaintance between the Farnums and Virgie progressed rapidly after the meeting between Sadie and the young wife. Mrs.
She had learned that the Farnums were English, but upon discovering that their home was a long distance from Heathdale Mr.
She told him everything, just as if she had not written to him before how his letters had suddenly ceased, and how she had waited and hoped to hear from him until she had grown weary and heart-sick from his long silence. She told of her meeting with the Farnums, and of the wretched story she had just learned from the elder lady.
She had invested the few hundreds left her in some river-bottom lots at Verden and had later discovered that an unscrupulous real estate dealer had unloaded upon her worthless property. The patched and threadbare clothes of the boy told him that from a worldly point of view the affairs of the Farnums were at ebb tide. "Did... did you know father very well?" Jeff asked tremulously.
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