"It is a satisfaction," he continued as Elsy left the room, "to know that Wentworth's wife is well provided with money, although it does appear strange that she should have a plenty of funds, when her husband informed me, while in prison, that the money he left her with could not maintain his wife and children for any great length of time." "She may have been furnished with money by some friend, who intending to remain in the city, had no use for Confederate Treasury notes," Dr.
Humphries remarked.
"That is very likely, and I trust it is so," observed Harry, "However," he continued, "I shall take steps on Monday next, to find out where Mrs.Wentworth is now residing." On Monday the following advertisement appeared in the evening papers: INFORMATION WANTED.
Any one knowing where Mrs.Eva Wentworth and her two children reside, will be liberally rewarded, by addressing the undersigned at this place.

Mrs.Wentworth is a refugee from New Orleans, and the wife of a gallant soldier, now a prisoner of war.
Jackson,----1862.

H.SHACKLEFORD.
It was too late.

Extensively published as it was, Mrs.Wentworth never saw it.

Her hardships and trials had increased ten-fold; she was fast drifting before the storm, with breakers before, threatening to wreck and sink into the grave the wife and children of Alfred Wentworth..