“Very well,” answered Dick, cheerfully.
“And now I hope you will be willing to stay at home and rest just one evening, dear Drusilla,” added Anna.
“Oh, don’t ask me to do that, dear Anna! How could I stay home in inactivity, especially now that I know where to look for him? No, I will drive down to that neighborhood in which he was seen, and I will search for him there,” answered Drusilla, firmly and very cheerfully, for hope had come into her heart again.
“And Anna and myself will go with you, my dear Drusa, for we have nothing to do but to devote ourselves to your service until your child shall be found,” said Dick, affectionately.
“Then I shall order tea at once, and something substantial along with it,” said Anna, rising.
Inspired by the new hope brought to her by Dick, Drusilla’s spirits rose.
When tea was placed upon the table, with the “something substantial” promised by Anna, Drusilla was able to join the party and even to partake of the refreshment.
Afterwards, accompanied by her two friends, she got into a cab and drove to the railway station where Dick had seen little Lenny in the arms of the strange woman.
There they drove up and down the streets and roads and in and out among the lanes, and alleys and inquired at many shops and houses for such a woman and child, but they neither found nor heard of one or the other.
To be sure, there were many poor beggar women, and many little two-year-old children; but they did not answer to the description of little Lenny and his strange bearer.