he had left the
city, the girl said that her mistress with your two children had been
forced to leave by Beast Butler, who would not allow her to go also,
but that, being determined to follow your wife, she had ran the
blockade and came into the Confederate lines.".

"And did my wife sell her to anybody else?" enquired Alfred.

"Wait a moment, my dear friend, and I will tell you," answered Harry.
"The girl did not see her mistress at all, for she was arrested on her
arrival in this city, and having no papers, as well as no owner, she
was sold according to law, and was purchased by Dr. Humphries, at
whose residence she is now. I would have told you this when we first
met, but it slipped my memory completely."

"But where could my wife have gone to?" remarked Alfred. "I do not
know of any person in the Confederate lines with whom she is
acquainted, and where she can get the means to support herself and
children I have not the least idea."

"That she has been to Jackson I am certain," Harry replied, "for no
sooner did I hear what the girl had informed Dr. Humphries, than I
endeavored to find out where she resided. I searched the register of
both the hotels in this city and found that she had been staying at
this hotel; but the clerk did not recollect anything about her, and
could not tell me where she went to on her departure from this city. I
also advertised in several newspapers for her, but receiving no
information, was compelled to give up my search in despair."

"I thank you for your remembrance of me," observed Alfred. "This
intelligence, however, will compel me to apply for an extension of my
furlough, so that I may be enabled to find out where my wife and
children are. I am very much alarmed at the news you have given me."

"I hope your wife and children are comfortably situated, wherever they
may be; and could I have discovered their residence, I should have
made it my duty to see that they wanted for nothing."

"I know it, I know it," said Alfred, pressing his friend's hand, and
he continued, "you will favor me on our arriving at Dr. Humphries' by
obtaining an interview for me with Elsy; I desire to know the cause of
my wife's ejectment from New Orleans."

"As soon as you are ready let me know and we will start for the
Doctor's," Harry answered, "where you will find the girl. Dr.
Humphries told me that he intended returning her to you or your wife
as soon as he discovered either of you. So in the event o