"Yes."
"And what harm has he ever done to you?"
"I don't know," said Charlie, shaking his head, "unless," and an anxious look came over his face, "he has distressed her for rent since I have been gone."
"Is that so?" demanded the sailor, sternly.
"No, no!" said Peter Manson, hastily. "She left my tenement a good many months ago."
"And where is she now?" asked Charlie, eagerly—for, having just landed, he knew nothing of his mother's whereabouts.
"Then you have not seen her?" asked Randall, with the sudden thought that he might make better terms for himself by selling his knowledge on the subject.
"No," said Charlie. "Is she well? Tell me, I entreat you, if you know."
"I do know," said Randall, composedly, "both where she is and how she has fared."