answered. She had seen the sum of money possessed by
Mrs. Wentworth, on her departure from New Orleans, and it being a much
larger amount than she had ever beheld before, made the faithful girl
believe that her mistress had left with quite a fortune.

"Very well, you can go now," remarked Harry. "It is a satisfaction,"
he continued as Elsy left the room, "to know that Wentworth's wife is
well provided with money, although it does appear strange that she
should have a plenty of funds, when her husband informed me, while in
prison, that the money he left her with could not maintain his wife
and children for any great length of time."

"She may have been furnished with money by some friend, who intending
to remain in the city, had no use for Confederate Treasury notes," Dr.
Humphries remarked.

"That is very likely, and I trust it is so," observed Harry,
"However," he continued, "I shall take steps on Monday next, to find
out where Mrs. Wentworth is now residing."

On Monday the following advertisement appeared in the evening papers:

INFORMATION WANTED.

Any one knowing where Mrs. Eva Wentworth and her two
children reside, will be liberally rewarded, by addressing
the undersigned at this place. Mrs. Wentworth is a refugee
from New Orleans, and the wife of a gallant soldier, now a
prisoner of war.

Jackson,----1862. H. SHACKLEFORD.

It was too late. Extensively published as it was, Mrs. Wentworth never
saw it. Her hardships and trials had increased ten-fold; she was fast
drifting before the storm, with breakers before, threatening to wreck
and sink into the grave the wife and children of Alfred Wentworth.

CHAPTER SIXTEENTH.

MR. ELDER DEMANDS HIS RENT.--NOTICE TO QUIT.

The money received by Mrs. Wentworth from Mr. Swartz, proved but a
temporary relief for her children and herself. A fatal day was fast
arriving, and she knew not how to avert the impending storm. By a
great deal of labor and deprivation she had heretofore succeeded in
paying the rent of the room she occupied, although Mr. Elder had twice
advanced the price. Now there was no hope of her being able to obtain
a sufficient sum of money to meet the demand of that gentleman, who
would call on her the following day in person, did she not call at his
office and settle for at least one months rent in advance. The month
for which she had paid expired in three days, and she was apprehensi