After opening two appeals from charitable institutions, Mrs.Ormonde found an envelope which, from the handwriting upon it, she judged to be a similar communication from a private source.

The address was laboriously scrawled, and ill-spelt; the postage stamp was badly affixed; there were finger-marks on the back.

Such envelopes generally came from the parents of children who had been in the Home, and frequently--dirtiness announced such cases--made appeal for temporary assistance.

The present missive, however, was misleading; its contents proved to be these: 'Madam,--We have a young girl with us as lies very bad.

She come to us not more than three week ago and asked for ployment, and me and my husband wasn't unwilling for to give her a chance, seeing she looked respectable, though we thought it wasn't unlikely as there might be something wrong, because of her looks and her clothing, which wasn't neither of them like the girl out of work, and then it's true she couldn't give no reference.