Paul drew from his pocket the receipt given him by the Safe Deposit Company, and displayed it to the old man. “Let me keep this?” said Jerry. “Yes, if you like.” This seemed to satisfy him, and he clutched the paper with a deep sigh of relief. “Shure, and you’ve calmed him down, Paul,” said Mrs. Hogan. “Was it really true about the books?” “It was really true, Mrs. Hogan. He has a good deal of money, though he doesn’t look it.” “Thin it’s a fool he is to live as he does, whin he might live like a gintleman.” “He will never live differently. When he dies it will go to his son, who will get through with it in short order.” Then Mrs. Hogan told Paul about the visit of Ellen Barclay, and her discovering a relation in old Jerry. “I wish she might have some of the money. Shure, she nades it with her young children.” “I would much rather she would have it than his son, who is a ruffian and a burglar.” “And you’ll help her to it, if you can, Paul?” “Yes, I will. I don’t want Jerry’s money myself. I am young, and my prospects are good. All I want is that it should go into the right hands.” CHAPTER XXVIII. JERRY FINDS A NEW RELATION. Ellen Barclay came over the next evening according to appointment, and had an interview with Paul. She had at first been disposed to look upon him with suspicion, as likely to divert Jerry’s money from his legal heirs, but the interview dispelled all such ideas. The telegraph boy was so frank and free spoken, and showed such an interest in helping her, that she was strongly impressed in his favor. He even told her the particulars of his first encounter with her husband, and in what manner he had defeated his plan of gaining possession of Mr. Cunningham’s money. “Yes,” said Ellen, bitterly, “he is a husband to be proud of.” “Has he always been as bad?” asked Paul. “Yes; I had not been married to him a month before I found out that I was wedded to a criminal. He treated me brutally, and I only breathed freely when he was away from home. Within a year from the wedding day, he was condemned to a year’s imprisonment, and at least half the time since he has been in confinement.” “Leaving you to support yourself, I suppose?” “Yes, I have had to support myself and the children. Even when he was a free man, he did little or nothing for the family.” “How did you support yourself?” asked Paul.