The sister also has two pictures
of Tag, taken when a baby."
"Where does that sister live?" cried the father. "Take me to
her home at once!"
"She lives in another state, some four hundred miles from here,"
smiled Tom Colquitt. "Mr. Page, I advise that you find the boy,
first. There isn't any real doubt as to his being your son.
You had better wait for further proofs until after you have found
the boy---who, according to all accounts, stands badly in need
of a real father just now."
"You are right---quite right," admitted Mr. Page. "Yes, we will
find my son first. But tell me something more. Didn't the boy
know that Bill Mosher wasn't his real father?"
"No; it had never been hinted to him," Colquitt answered. "Bill
kept the truth from the child, and, after Bill's wife died, they
moved over into this part of the country, where no one knew their
past history."
"And has my son never been in school?"
"Oh, yes; the compulsory education law came to the rescue, and
the boy had a grammar school education before he took to the
woods altogether."
"I know something definite, at last," sighed the unhappy father.
"I know that my boy is alive, and that he needs a father. Moreover,
I feel certain that he is at this moment not far away from me.
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