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COMPLICATIONS. 249 without difficulty. She was, of course, astonished to see her caller, and listening to his reasons she abruptly said: ‘‘Why, Mr. Mason, a person was here last night to inquire as to the very same thing.”’ This did not surprise Dick, for when he left New York he was satisfied that Moore had preceded him. He asked Mrs. Jenkins for a description of the person who had called upon her the previous evening, and found it agreed with the description given by Mrs, Tomlinson as to the one who had called upon her in the very beginning of the search, and also with Cap- tain Lawton’s description of Moore. *‘Well,’? he said anxiously, ‘‘did you give him all the information you could?”’ ‘‘It was very little I could give him,”’ she replied. **Though I looked over the papers I could not under- standthem. My husband, however, understood them better than I did, but he was not at home nor is he to-day. He has gone out of town for some days, so that the person really went away without anything being told him.’’ While this was satisfactory to Dick, so far as it showed that Moore’s errand had been fruitless, it was not satisfactory as it evidenced that it would be impos- sible for him to obtain the information as to the cone tents of the box. He, however, questioned Mrs. Jen- kins very closely, but all that he could elicit was that there were four letters which were evidently from the person who had adopted the child, and a paper which set forth the fact that the child had been adopted and had been received from Thomas Powers. Whether this paper was signed, or if signed, by what name, Mrs. Jenkins was wholly unable to state. Indeed she seemed to be in a somewhat muddled condition con- cerning it, and so at last Dick was compelled to forego further effort and departed. After he left the house, however, the thought CoMmicloeo® S C@ 3