Crossword-Solution: AVONDALE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The letter was written in Spanish, of which Randolph had a fair knowledge, but it was made plainer by a space having been left in the formal letter for the English name, which was written in another hand, together with a copy of Miss Avondale's signature for identification--the usual proceeding in those early days, when personal identification was difficult to travelers, emigrants, and visitors in a land of strangers.

Meantime, for a week after, Randolph indulged in wild fancies of taking his benefactor's capital of seventy dollars, adding thirty to it from his own hard-earned savings, buying a draft with it from the bank for one hundred dollars, and in some mysterious way getting it to Miss Avondale as the delayed remittance.

But he found every seat occupied, and was turning away, when he suddenly recognized Miss Avondale sitting beside her little escort.

You were wetter then even than you are now.” “I was hungry, friendless, and penniless, Miss Avondale.” He had spoken thus abruptly in the faint hope that the revelation might equalize their present condition; but somehow his confession, now that it was uttered, seemed exceedingly weak and impotent.

The second time--and not very long after--I saw him well dressed, lounging like any other young man on a Sunday afternoon, and I believed that he took the liberty of bowing to me then because I had once looked at him under a misapprehension.” “Oh, Miss Avondale!” “Then I took a more charitable view, and came to the conclusion that the first night he had been drinking.