Any one knowing where Mrs. Eva Wentworth and her two
children reside, will be liberally rewarded, by addressing
the undersigned at this place. Mrs. Wentworth is a refugee
from New Orleans, and the wife of a gallant soldier, now a
prisoner of war.

Jackson,----1862. H. SHACKLEFORD.

It was too late. Extensively published as it was, Mrs. Wentworth never
saw it. Her hardships and trials had increased ten-fold; she was fast
drifting before the storm, with breakers before, threatening to wreck
and sink into the grave the wife and children of Alfred Wentworth.




CHAPTER SIXTEENTH.

MR. ELDER DEMANDS HIS RENT.--NOTICE TO QUIT.


The money received by Mrs. Wentworth from Mr. Swartz, proved but a
temporary relief for her children and herself. A fatal day was fast
arriving, and she knew not how to avert the impending storm. By a
great deal of labor and deprivation she had heretofore succeeded in
paying the rent of the room she occupied, although Mr. Elder had twice
advanced the price. Now there was no hope of her being able to obtain
a sufficient sum of money to meet the demand of that gentleman, who
would call on her the following day in person, did she not call at his