"In saying good-bye to your old home, you left your father behind, I presume?"
"Yes, he preferred to remain in America."
"May I ask his profession?"
"That, I'm afraid, foolish as it may seem to say so, I cannot tell you," answered the girl, with a slightly heightened color. "His means of earning a living were always kept a secret from me."
"That was rather strange; was it not?" said Klimo. "Had he private resources?"
"None that I ever heard of," replied the girl.
"Did no business men ever come to see him?"
"But very few people came to us at all. We had scarcely any friends."
"Of what nationality were the friends who did come?"
"Mostly Irish, like ourselves," answered Mrs. Jeffreys.