Upon his arrival in Chicago, he inserted a number of advertisements in the
daily papers, having laid various plans by which she might safely
communicate with him without running the risk of detection by her enemy.

If M.R. is in Chicago, will she kindly communicate with T.
Dunham, General Delivery? Important.

Mrs. Bowman's friend has something of importance to say to the
lady who dined with her October 8th. Kindly send address to T.D.,
Box 7 _Inter-Ocean_ office.

"Mary," let me know where and when I can speak with you about a
matter of importance. Tryon D., _Record-Herald_ L.

These and others appeared in the different papers, but when he began to
get communications from all sorts of poor creatures, every one demanding
money, and when he found himself running wild-goose chases after different
Marys and M.R.s, he abandoned all hope of personal columns in the
newspapers. Then he began a systematic search for music teachers and
musicians, for it seemed to him that this would be her natural way of
earning her living, if she were so hard pressed that this was necessary.

In the course of his experiments he came upon many objects of pity, and
his heart was stirred with the sorrow and the misery of the human race as
it had never been stirred in all his happy, well-groomed life. Many a poor
soul was helped and strengthened and put into the way of doing better
because of this brief contact with him. But always as he saw new miseries
he was troubled over what might have become of her--"Mary." It came to
pass that whenever he looked upon the face of a young woman, no matter how
pinched and worn with poverty, he dreaded lest _she_ might have come to