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With another warning to Mrs. Tate as to silence, we started back to

Sunnyside. So Fanny Armstrong knew of Lucien Wallace, and was

sufficiently interested to visit him and pay for his support. Who was

the child's mother and where was she? Who was Nina Carrington? Did

either of them know where Halsey was or what had happened to him?

On the way home we passed the little cemetery where Thomas had been

laid to rest. I wondered if Thomas could have helped us to find

Halsey, had he lived. Farther along was the more imposing

burial-ground, where Arnold Armstrong and his father lay in the shadow

of a tall granite shaft. Of the three, I think Thomas was the only one

sincerely mourned.