Did I tell you I had a telegram last night?
He is coming on the early train.' Mrs.Tracy passed the allusion to the coroner in silence, but of the little girl she said: 'I suppose the child must come to the funeral, but you surely do not mean to keep her?
We are not bound to do that because her mother froze to death on our premises.' 'Would you let her go to the poor-house ?' Frank asked, but Dolly did not reply.
As the breakfast-bell just then rang, no more was said of the little waif until the sleigh was brought to the door, and Frank announced his intention of stopping for the child on his way back from the station, where he was going to meet the coroner..