I said I guessed God Almighty didn't care much about names, and if she hadn't decided on one I'd name the baby myself and I did: I named the little girl--and a mighty cute youngster she was, too--I named her Elizabeth--favorite name of mine;--just the mother, lying there in bed, and the man and woman that kept the boarding-house in the room.

The mother said she wanted to do something for me; and as I was leaving her she pulled this book out and made me take it." "I suppose it was a favorite book of hers and all that," suggested Dan.
"I don't think anybody had ever opened that book," replied Ware, smiling.

"It was brand-new--not a scratch on it." "And afterward ?" asked Allen, anxious for the rest of the story.
"Well, sir, I passed through there four years afterward and found the same people living in the little cottage there at that settlement.
Strange to say, that woman had stayed there a couple of years after the baby was born.

Hadn't any place to go, I reckon.

Nobody ever went near her, they said; but finally she picked up and left; took the baby with her.