"Yes."
"You have found Amalie Stevens?"
"I have found the grave of Amalie Canfield, aged four years."
Our hero proceeded and told all that had occurred, and Mr. Townsend remarked:
"How sad, how fatal!"
"Yes, sir, but you have a consolation. Your oversight has not cost any one any trouble. Old Mr. Canfield died the day he made the deposit with you, and the heiress died two months and one day later, so it makes no difference. No one would have gained by an earlier finding of the letter; the fortune belongs to charity and you."
"No, not to me," said Mr. Townsend, "but to you."
"To me?"
"Yes."