It had been Lillian's instinct to continue in the place where the child
had been last seen--she felt a fictitious sense of proximity in the
familiar localities that had known him. But with the exigencies of the
systematic effort for his recovery she returned to her own home in the
city of Glaston, whither Gladys accompanied her, as being more accessible
when her presence in the search was required.
Julian Bayne gave himself wholly to the effort. He travelled here and
there, pervading the country like some spirit of unrest, threading the
intricacies of city slums, north, south, east, and west, personally
interviewing all manner of loathly creatures, damaged by vice and sloth
and ignorance and crime almost out of all semblance of humanity. He had
not dreamed that such beings existed upon the earth. Sometimes, unaware
of the circumstances and the danger they courted, they caught up a child
wherewith to deceive him, if it might be, generally a pitiable, puny
thing, swarming with vermin, half famished and forlorn.
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