The amount was precisely that which I had paid Shadow. I remembered some of the bills, and was curious to see if they were contained in the money.
They were.
Every bill that I had specially noted was in the roll of bills she handed to me in response to my request.
The last lingering doubt as to Mat Morris and Shadow being one and the same person was swept from my mind by this circumstance.
I said nothing, however, to Mrs. Morris of where and how I had last seen Shadow—or Mat—for I knew it could only make her more anxious on his account.
While wondering where Mat could have obtained so large a sum of money, the mother's confidence in her son was so great that she felt it had been come by in none other than a proper and honest manner.
"Will you not do what you can toward finding our Helen?" Mrs. Morris asked at parting.
"I will," was the reply; and, indeed, I kept the subject constantly before me, and my ears always open, when I visited the many haunts of vice in the pursuit of my duties.
But weeks glided away and I found no clew, nor had I heard or seen aught of Shadow.
Yet he was not idle, and I now know that though I did not see him he saw me many times, and avoided me on purpose.