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Cardo sat listening, with his hands shading his eyes

"And now, here's the directions, sir," she said, as Peggi Bullet

returned froi fâch, you are so ni the old teapot down"

And the nimble woman of seventy soon laid before them the old cracked

teapot, out of which Nance drew the same faded address which she had

once shown to Valmai

"It is horribly faint," said Cardo, a fresh tre in his heart

"Here it is now," said Nance, placing her shrivelled finger on the

paper "This is where she went from here, when all this trouble caer of scorn at her; and when

she had given up the hope that you would ever come back, sir, she

turned to her sister, dear child!"

"I never knew she had a sister!"

"No, nor she didn't know much about her; but I knew, and I told her

Born the sa at

Essec Powell's at the tiht

her up as her own daughter, and we have never heard of her since 'But

I will find her, Nance,' she said 'I will find her! I know I

will!'"

"But have you never heard from her?"

"Well, indeed, there was a letter," said Nance, "came soon after she

left Dr Francis read it to me, and I think I put it in that teapot,