"No, sah," replied Elsy. "My mistis jest told me good bye when she
left wid de children. I promised her I would get away from de Yankees,
but she forgot to tell me whar she was gwine to lib."

"Did she bring out plenty of money with her?" he enquired.

"Yes, sah," Elsy answered. She had seen the sum of money possessed by
Mrs. Wentworth, on her departure from New Orleans, and it being a much
larger amount than she had ever beheld before, made the faithful girl
believe that her mistress had left with quite a fortune.

"Very well, you can go now," remarked Harry. "It is a satisfaction,"
he continued as Elsy left the room, "to know that Wentworth's wife is
well provided with money, although it does appear strange that she
should have a plenty of funds, when her husband informed me, while in
prison, that the money he left her with could not maintain his wife
and children for any great length of time."

"She may have been furnished with money by some friend, who intending
to remain in the city, had no use for Confederate Treasury notes," Dr.
Humphries remarked.

"That is very likely, and I trust it is so," observed Harry,
"However," he continued, "I shall take steps on Monday next, to find
out where Mrs. Wentworth is now residing."

On Monday the following advertisement appeared in the evening papers:

INFORMATION WANTED.