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104 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS, have received,’’ remarked Dick. ‘‘Did you know the name of the people with whom he lodged in Mac- dougall Street?’’ “Yes; the name was Powers. I knew the family. I think he went to lodge there through me. Powers was a morocco-finisher, and soon after Dugdale’s death moved to Newark. He died there some nine or ten years ago. His wife is dead, too.”’ ‘‘She dead, too!’’ exclaimed Dick, much disap- pointed. ‘“Yes, she died a year after Powers. Died here in New York. They had two daughters, both married. I don’t know what has become of them.’’ ‘Did you know of any intimate friends that the Dugdales had?’’ “Well, unless you could call a Mrs. Tomlinson and aman named Barber, who were in the theatrical line, friends, I don’t think they had any. I saw an item in the paper the other day about an old man named Bar- ber who had been a ballet-dancer, who died, and I’ve been wondering if that fellow was the same one.”’ ‘“Yes, he was the same man,’’ answered Dick. ‘‘Do you know whether Mrs. Tomlinson 1s alive and, if she is, where she lives?’”’ ‘I do not. I don't know anything more about her, than that she cared for Dugdale’s baby a good deal after Mrs. Dugdale’s death.”’ ‘‘Oh, then you know there was a child?’’ “Oh, yes,” ‘It disappeared before the father’s death, didn’t Ta ‘‘No, it didn’t disappear. ‘The Tomlinson woman took it.’’ ‘“‘TIt disappeared after the father’s death.’’ “No; the Tomlinson woman brought it back to the Powers people and they put it out for adoption to someone.”’ ‘Do you know to whom?”’ Comicbooks.€© 3