Braddock, conveying to her notice by this means the
fact that he held in his possession many thousand dollars belonging to
her. Whether this tempting bait found her in such dire distress that
she could not remain in hiding while it was being offered, no one
seemed to know. If she had come forth to claim her portion of the
proceeds, the fact remained unknown to the old friends.
Tom Braddock, so David learned, forsook the show soon after his wife's
disappearance, and went to the Middle West. From time to time news of
him reached David in roundabout ways. He had developed quite naturally
into a common street loafer in Chicago, preying on the generosity of
his old acquaintance and living the besotted life of a degenerate. Of
certain cheerful wights who made up David's secret circle of intimates
we may expect to hear more as we go along. Suffice it to say, he kept
in close touch with them during his years at the University and
subsequently as the recognized "lord of the manor," excepting a rather
lengthy period devoted to travel abroad. On more than one occasion he
responded generously to diffident appeals for help, coming from one or
the other of his old friends.
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