"I never thought about it.

I don't believe, however, that she has any legal claim upon me." "Is there any way in which you can find out ?" asked Anne.
"Why, yes," replied Mabel.

"I could write the woman at the orphanage who was good to me.

She is still there, and several times she has written to me, but Miss Brant read her letters first and then tore them up.

Her name is Mary Stevens, and she would surely know!" "Then write to her at once," said Grace, "and tell her to send her letter in an outside envelope addressed to me.