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 CHAPTER XII.

"GOOD MRS. BROWN."

Early next morning Prudence carefully locked all the doors of her own room and of her sister's apartment and went round to the stationer's to see if a letter had come for her from X. Y. Z. With much relief she picked out, from a bundle of others, a missive addressed to P. S., and proceeded to read it. It was tolerably written and spelled, the paper was clean, and the communication was signed "Mrs. Brown." "Mrs. Brown" agreed to meet Prudence at nine o'clock that evening in the first-class waiting room at London Bridge Station, and had no doubt they would come to terms. "She was prepared," she said, "to take the pretty little dear and treat it with a mother's love," and regretted that she was unable to make an appointment earlier in the day "on account of family reasons."