THE HONOURABLE PAUPER
Lord Northmoor's card was given to the porter with an urgent request for an interview with the Master of the workhouse.
He steadied his voice with difficulty when, on entering the office, he said that he had come to make inquiry after his son, a child of three and a half years old, who had been supposed to be drowned, but he had now discovered had been stolen by a former nurse, and left at the gate of the workhouse, and as the Master paused with an interrogative 'Yes, my Lord?' he added--'On the night between the Wednesday and Thursday of Whitsun week, May the--'
'Children are so often left,' said the Master. 'I will ascertain from the books as to the date.'
After an interval really of scarcely a minute, but which might have been hours to the father's feeling, he
