“Pina, I think you are probably right in your conjecture, for I cannot even imagine what motive two such men as you describe could possibly have for stealing a child like Lenny. They must have been employed by his father, and if so, they must have been engaged some days ago, and have been on the lookout for the boy ever since.”
“Oh, Anna, Anna, do you really think he is with his father? If I thought so, one-half this terrible anxiety would be quieted. Oh, Anna, do you truly think Lenny is with Alick?” cried Drusilla, clasping her hands.
“I have little doubt that Alexander employed these men to get little Lenny. I have little doubt but that, for the sake of gain, they will faithfully perform their part of the compact. My only wonder is that Alick should have employed such very disreputable instruments.”
“Pina, is that all? Do you know no more?” anxiously inquired Drusilla.
“It is all, missus—every bit. I have told you not only all that happened, but all I seed and heard and even thought.”
“Now then for action,” said the young mother, rising with a new-born resolution and ringing the bell.
The waiter answered it.
“Order a cab for me immediately, and come and let me know when it is at the door,” she said.
And when the man went away to do her bidding she turned to Pina and said:
“Stop crying and do as I direct you. Go to my room and bring me here my bonnet, gloves and mantle.”