"A beauty," he said, "a perfect little gentleman.

Like Richard Joseph Armour there is none," he added.
"Whom do you think he looks like, Richard ?" she asked.

This was a question she had never asked before since the child was born.

Whom the child looked like every one knew; but within the past year and a half Francis Armour's name had seldom been mentioned, and never in connection with the child.

The child's mother asked the question with a strange quietness.