THE DEPARTURE.
“Oh, Connell,” he said, “how are you?”
“I am quite well. May I ask if you are the same?”
“Oh, yes, thank you. All right. Sit down. Well, how about this girl, eh? What does she say?”
“The child, you mean?”
“The what?”
“The child that was brought here to-night.”
“Child, eh?—hem! Excuse me, I don’t know anything about a child. I allude to Ellen Harmer. I may as well name her at once, for I hear from Gordon that she has proclaimed who she is.”
“It is to that same girl I allude. I call her, I think justly, a child.”