"John and I made up the name to suit the letters.

If ever her friends turn up they'll know the difference, but in the meantime we had to have something to call her by." "Why, this is most interesting!" said Mrs.Rushton, examining the monogram; "she probably belonged to people of position.

It is quite satisfactory that she should prove to be a gentlewoman by birth." "And that is why I feel bound to give her up, ma'am," said Mrs.Kane, wiping her overflowing eyes.

"I've always put it before me that some day or other her folks would come wanting her, and I've said to myself that it would be terrible if she had grown up in the meantime with no better education than if she was born a village lass.

And yet what better could I have done for her than I could have done for a daughter of my own if I had had one ?" "Just so," said Mrs.Rushton; "and now you may be sure that she will be educated, trained, dressed, and everything else, just as if she had been in her mother's house.