You will find everything in order." "Sir," said Winnifred, as Mr.Bonehead proceeded to fold up his papers, "I am but a poor inadequate girl, a mere child in business, but tell me, I pray, what is left to me of the money that you have managed ?" "Nothing," said the Lawyer.

"Everything is gone.

And I regret to say, Miss Clair, that it is my painful duty to convey to you a further disclosure of a distressing nature.

It concerns your birth." "Just Heaven!" cried Winnifred, with a woman's quick intuition.

"Does it concern my father ?" "It does, Miss Clair.