Mother's told me so often."
"If you believe all your mother told you,--Well, well, you have
been a little wooden-head. What made you behave like that to him?--
Where does he live, eh?"
"I don't know."
"You do know. Why, I heard him say you'd been to see him. And what
are you going to do, I'd like to know? You dont expect me to keep
you, I s'pose. Tell me at once where the gentleman lives, and let me
take you there. The idea of your turning against your own father!"
"He's _not_ my father!" cried Ida passionately. "My father is dead;
and now mother's dead, and I'm alone." She turned and went from the
room, weeping bitterly.
CHAPTER VI
AN ADVERTISEMENT
In a morning newspaper of March 187--, that is to chapter, appeared a
singular advertisement.
"WANTED, human companionship. A young man of four-and-twenty wishes
to find a congenial associate of about his own age. He is a student
of ancient and modern literatures, a free-thinker in religion, a
lover of art in all its forms, a hater of conventionalism. Would
like to correspond in the first instance. Address O. W., City News
Rooms, W.C."
An advertisement which, naturally, might mean much or little, might
be the outcome of an idle whim, or the despairing cry of a hungry
heart.
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