THE SEARCH IN LONDON.



known. But Col. Schuyler was too brave a man to die a suicidal
death in order to escajpe a trouble.  " Better live and face it,"
he thought, an(l then began to feel a restless iml)aLience to have
the matter settled, to know the worst as soon as possible, and
he was almost as glad as Edith when she was pronounced able
to undertake the voyage.  Why they were going to England in
the winter they did not say, and we naturally supposed it might
be to benefit Edith and pay a visit to Glenthorl)e, where Emnma
was so halp)y. Norah was not going ; Edith could get a maid
across the water, she sai(l, and she preferred leaving Norah to
look after little Arthur. To Gertie, however, the principal care
of the child was given, and she promised to be faithful to her
trust, and care for the little boy as if he were her brother.
  And so one day in January, when the Oceanic sailed out of the
harbor of New York, Edith was in the ship going blindfolded
to seek the very blessing which, all unknown, she left behind.



                     CHAPTER LV.

                 THE SEARCH IN LONDON.

       HEY went first to the - St. Hospital, where officers
         and nurses and matron had all been changed since
         the night when the child Heloise was left at the
door. But the books remained, and after a long time they
found the one bearing date nineteen years back. Oh, how
eagerly Edith turned the worn, yellow leaves till she came to
the date she remembered so well.
  ";January -, x8-. Was received into the house a female
child, found in a basket on the doorstep with the name Heloise
pinned upon its dress."
  Ilhat was the one, and Edith's voice trembled so much that
she could not speak distinctly, as she asked of the person in at-
tendance:
  "s Where is this child now  Who took her from here -and
when"



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