He saw her somewhere and admired her.

He learned who she was, went to her father's law office and pretended he was representing some great business in the West, until he was welcomed as a promising client.

He hung around and when she came in one day her father was forced to introduce them.

The remainder is the same world-old story----a good looking, glib-tongued man, plying every art known to an expert, on an innocent girl." "Is he dead, Ruth ?" "We thought so.

We hoped so." "Your mother did not feel that her people might be suffering for her as she was for them ?" "Not after she appealed to them twice and received no reply." "Perhaps they tried to find her.