was her son who had been taken from her by the courts while he was still a baby. She had lost trace of him afterward, she said, through some confusion of the court records."
"That was what Walter said," was Jeffrey's reply.
"Because the woman told him that. The nurse didn't see the police agency report. She believes now, from some things the woman said to her at the time, that it stated no more than that the boy's parentage was unknown. The woman, the nurse says, had been deeply in love with Walter—that is, as she puts it, with the man who came there afterward. The nurse doesn't know any of the names, except that of the Lampert woman. I didn't tell her any of them, either. The woman never hoped to marry him, of couse. After the affair had been broken off, she left Chicago. The nurse thinks it was because she couldn't bear to stay where she was continually thinking she might see him. She lived in other cities. The life she was leading and the drugs she used finally broke her down and she returned to die here where her family
