Jack of course promised (as all men do) to
marry her, and to do him justice I must say that he fully intended
to do so, but his income as a bank clerk was only twenty dollars a
month, and he knew he had no hope of receiving any assistance from
his father. So things went on till Ellen felt she could keep her
secret no longer from those around her, and she told her mistress
she was going home to visit a sick aunt, and did not know whether
she would return or not. Mrs. Rogers was very sorry indeed to part
with her (for she had ingratiated herself with all the family,
although not to the same extent), and told her if she would
undertake to return she would only fill her place temporarily with
another girl. With this understanding Ellen left her place and
entered the Female Home, where shortly afterwards her baby (a girl)
was born; she had the child baptized almost immediately, calling it
Beatrice, after her young mistress, to whom she had been much
attached, although it is doubtful if the young lady in question would,
had she known it have appreciated the honor conferred upon her.
Ellen was scarcely recovered from her illness when her brother, a
country farmer, who had by some means got wind of the state of
affairs, came to Montreal, and had his misgivings confirmed.
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