"Perhaps, in your travels, you may learn something of her history."

"I should like to do so."

"You won't leave us to-morrow?"

"I must go to-day. I know now that I must depend wholly upon my own
exertions, and I must get to work as soon as possible."

"You will write to me, Carl?"

"Yes, when I have anything agreeable to write."

"Let us hope that will be soon."



CHAPTER VII.

ENDS IN A TRAGEDY.


Carl obtained permission to leave his trunk at the Vance mansion, merely
taking out what he absolutely needed for a change.

"When I am settled I will send for it," he said. "Now I shouldn't know
what to do with it."

There were cordial good-bys, and Carl started once more on the tramp.
He might, indeed, have traveled by rail, for he had ten dollars and