48069    'There is Laura Lyons - her initials are L.L. - but she lives in Coombe Tracey.'

48070    'Who is she?' I asked.

48071    'She is Frankland's daughter.'

48072    'What?

48073    Old Frankland the crank?'

48074    'Exactly.

48075    She married an artist named Lyons, who came sketching on the moor.

48076    He proved to be a blackguard and deserted her.

48077    The fault, from what I hear, may not have been entirely on one side.

48078    Her father refused to have anything to do with her, because she had married without his consent, and perhaps for one or two other reasons as well.

48079    So, between the old sinner and the young one the girl has had a pretty bad time.'

48080    'How does she live?'

48081    'I fancy old Frankland allows her a pittance, but it cannot be more, for his own affairs are considerably involved.

48082    Whatever she may have deserved one could not allow her to go hopelessly to the bad.

48083    Her story got about, and several of the people here did something to enable her to earn an honest living.