eing, friendless, alone, and
in need of help and kindly care, or had she come because she believed
that June Jenrys possessed a heart whose monitions might be trusted,
and that the man she had singled out from among many as the one man in
the world must be a man indeed?

Be this as it would, and whatever the frame of mind in which she
approached that white cot at her niece's side, I knew, by the
lingering touch upon the pale forehead, the deft, gentle, and quite
unconscious smoothing of the white counterpane across his breast, that
the pale, unknowing face had won its way, and that what she took away
from that hospital ward was not the tenderly carried burden of
another's interest and another's anxiety, but a personal interest and
a personal liking that could be trusted to sustain itself and grow
apace in that tender woman's heart.

We were a very silent party as we came away from the hospital. June
Jenrys looked as if the word 'heartless' were yet sounding in her
ears. I was assuring myself that it was best not to speak of what the
surgeon had told me, and the little Quakeress was evidently quite lost
to herself in her thoughts of, and for, others. As I took my leave of
them, Miss Ross put out her hand, and, after thanking me for my
escort, said:

'I will not trouble thee to accompany me to-morrow; I know the way
perfectly, and can go very well by myself. Indeed I prefer to do so. I
shall not even let June here accompany me--at first.'

CHAPTER XX.

'WE MUST UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.'

The next morning brought a telegram from Boston, in reply to my wire
asking instructions about the rooms on Madison Avenue. It read:

'Hold rooms until we come. Short delay. Unavoidable.

'TRENT.'

The second day after our visit to the hospital the photograph of
Gerald Trent was received by Miss Jenrys, and at once turned over to
me, I, in my turn, putting it into the hands of an expert 'artist,'
with orders to turn out several dozen copies as rapidly as possible.

These I meant to distribute freely among specials, policemen, the
Columbian Guards at the Fair City; and others were to be furnished the
chief of police for use about the city proper, for I meant to have a
thorough search made in the hotels, boarding places, furnished rooms,
and in all the saloons and other haunts of vice and crime, wherever an
officer, armed with one of these pictures and offering a prince