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OU don't know?"

"I was very proud," she said. "He never told me his name; I never asked him."

"I don't understand that kind of pride," said Judge Tyler.

"You would if you were a woman," said she.

"Perhaps," a little dryly. "Perhaps I would. But as it is, I do not. You tell me that you do not know this man. Does he—did he ever know that you had a son?"

"How should he know? I went out of his life, he out of mine."

"He must be found," said Judge Tyler. "This is his affair, not mine."

"Yes," she said plaintively, "I suppose so, but—"

"Have you no means of tracing him?"