brought the boy here and by hek! he looked as much like you as two peas. What lawyer would you go to, I wondered, if you were in trouble? You'd go, I had no doubt at all to Sallet. I put a man to dig in Sallet's office. Sallet, he found, was advertising for a boy. In twenty-four hours I had the whole blamed thing. I had the boy's record in the institutions; I had the mother's name. Like to hear it? I had her looked up too. I was almost sure what all this meant. I sent for you to come over here, and I watched you when you saw the boy. That made me certain. You're no fit husband for Matt Beman's granddaughter—coming to her straight from another woman, and with a child running the streets who doesn't know his father!"
"I never knew there was a boy."
"What does your knowing matter?"
Peewee heard his father's voice after a long interval. "What is it that you mean to do?"
"I'm going to take her back—away from you. This house is lonesome. I'm old, I ain't dead yet. I'd like a young woman—my grand-
