He was in reality a keen-witted boy, only this was an emergency into which he had been surprised, and which he had not foreseen, and Maria's own abnormal mood had in a measure infected him.

Presently he spoke to the point.
"What on earth are you going to do when you get to New York, anyhow ?" said he to Maria.
"Find her," replied Maria, laconically.
"But New York is a mighty big city.

How do you mean to go to work?
Now I--" Maria cut him short.

"I am going right up to Her cousin's, on West Forty-ninth Street, and find out if Evelyn is there," said she.
"But what would make the child want to go there, anyhow ?" "It was the only place she had ever been in New York," said Maria.
"But I don't see what particular reason she would have for going there, though," said Wollaston.

"How would she remember the street and number ?" "She was an awful bright kid," said Gladys, with a momentary lapse of reason, "and kids is queer.