However, when he demanded only the suit-case which his dead wife had brought when she came to the house, Von Rosen was relieved.

He produced it at once, and his wonder and disgust mounted to fever heat, when that Eastern boy proceeded to take out carefully the gauds of feminine handiwork which it contained, and press them upon Von Rosen at exorbitant prices.

Von Rosen was more incensed than he often permitted himself to be.

He ordered the boy from the house, and he departed with strong oaths, and veiled and intricate threats after the manner of his subtle race, and when Jane Riggs came home, Von Rosen told her.
"I firmly believe the young rascal was that poor girl's husband, and the boy's father," he said.
"Didn't he ask to have the baby ?" "Never mentioned such a thing.

All he wanted was the article of value which the poor girl left here." Jane Riggs also looked relieved.