So important
an event as that of searching out my mother, and inducing her to
flee from her husband, could hardly have taken place, it seems to
me, without evidence of the fact being preserved. And my hope is,
that this evidence, if it can be found, will prove of great value.
So you see, Doctor, that I have good reasons for wishing to know
well the agent who goes abroad with a matter so vital as this in his
hands."
I admitted the importance of a thoroughly reliable man to go upon
this mission, and repeated my faith in Wallingford.
CHAPTER XIII.
I saw Mrs. Montgomery a few days afterwards, and inquired if she had
seen the young associate of Judge Bigelow. She replied in the
affirmative.
"How does he impress you?" I asked.
"Favorably, upon the whole; though," she added with one of her
meaning smiles, "I can't help thinking all the time about the cool,
calculating, resolute way in which he went about disentangling
himself from an unfortunate love affair. I look at his calm face,
over which you rarely see a ripple of feeling go, and ask myself,
sometimes, if a heart really beats within his bosom.
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