end has something of importance to say to the
lady who dined with her October 8th. Kindly send address to T.D.,
Box 7 _Inter-Ocean_ office.

"Mary," let me know where and when I can speak with you about a
matter of importance. Tryon D., _Record-Herald_ L.

These and others appeared in the different papers, but when he began to
get communications from all sorts of poor creatures, every one demanding
money, and when he found himself running wild-goose chases after different
Marys and M.R.s, he abandoned all hope of personal columns in the
newspapers. Then he began a systematic search for music teachers and
musicians, for it seemed to him that this would be her natural way of
earning her living, if she were so hard pressed that this was necessary.

In the course of his experiments he came upon many objects of pity, and
his heart was stirred with the sorrow and the misery of the human race as
it had never been stirred in all his happy, well-groomed life. Many a poor
soul was helped and strengthened and put into the way of doing better
because of this brief contact with him. But always as he saw new miseries
he was troubled over what might have become of her--"Mary." It came to
pass that whenever he looked upon the face of a young woman, no matter how
pinched and worn with poverty, he dreaded lest _she_ might have come to
this pass, and be in actual need. As these thoughts went on day by day, he
came to feel that she was his by a God-given right, his to find, his to
care for. If she was in peril, he must save her. If she had done
wrong--but this he could never believe. Her face was too pure and lovely
for that. So the burden of her weighed upon his heart all the days while
he went about the difficult business of gathering evidence link by link in
the important law case that had brought him to Chicago.

Dunham had set apart working hours, and he seemed to labor with double
vigor then because of the other task he had set himself. When at last he
finished the legal business he had come for, and might go home, he
lingered yet a day, and then another, devoting himself with almost
feverish activity to the search for his unknown friend.

It was the evening of the third day after his law work was finished that
with a sad heart he went toward the hotel where he had been stopping. He
was obliged at last to face the fact that his search had been in vain.

He had almost reached the hotel when he met a business acquai