"
"You won't forget me?"
"No; I shall be even more anxious to meet
you than you will be to meet me. The one
to whom your former wife is married is very
near and dear to me, and I cannot bear to
think that he has been so wronged and
imposed upon!"
"Very well, sir! I shall wait for you with
confidence. If I can get back from my former
wife the money she robbed me of, I can
get on my feet again, and take a respectable
position in society. It is very hard for a man
dressed as I am to obtain any employment."
Looking at his shabby and ragged suit, Carl
could readily believe this statement. If he
had wished to employ anyone he would hardly
have been tempted to engage a man so
discreditable in appearance. "Be of good courage,
Mr. Cook," he said, kindly. "If your story is correct,
and I believe it is, there are better days in store for you."
"Thank you for those words," said Cook, earnestly.
"They give me new hope."
CHAPTER XXXIII.
FROM ALBANY TO NIAGARA.
Carl took the afternoon train on the
following day for Buffalo. His thoughts were
busy with the startling discovery he had made
in regard to his stepmother. Though he had
never liked her, he had been far from imagining
that she was under the ban of the law.
It made him angry to think that his father had
been drawn into a marriage with such a
woman--that the place of his idolized mother
had been taken by one who had served a term
at Sing Sing.
Did Peter know of his mother's past disgrace?
he asked himself.
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