Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-01-20

nduieu lue Hclel. he Hdu usually STOP
ped at my house but on his return he had
gone to quiet hotel in the city, and had
declined to make my house his home as US
ual.
Thank you. I would prefer to eommu.
nicate with him through you, if you are in
any way authorized to act for him in the
matter of our business arrangements.
But L m not" Ianswered.
Then, will you act for me? | am desir
Gus of closing our agreement for this pic
ture. am ready to pay the balance due
him, and will make him liberal allowance
in addition to the sum agreed ON, if he will
renounce the privilege of exhibiting it fur
ther.'
Il think that he will consent to the re-
moval; bat he will decline any considera-
ton for doing so. ="
Thank you. VIII you see him, give him
this check-filling it up for the amount you
can agree on as right, you acting for me-
and obtain his consent to the withdrawal oI
the picture from the Academy
did so. / saw Shannon paid the bal.
ance closed the account and carried his trans
fer of the picture to Mr. Vanderwater
The same day the picture was removed
from the Academy. and passed into the
hands of Mr. Vanderwater What disposi-
tion was made of it at the time do not
know
As we left the building, Mr.. Vanderwa-
ter requested me to go with him to his resi-
dence, as he had second and more serious
communication to make through me to Mr..
Shannon. We got into a cross town car,
which was passing the Academy at the mo-
ment, and started for his house
As We were making a short curve in front
of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, at Madison
Square, [ was suddenly reused from some
meditations into which had fallen, by a
sharp, nervous grasp on my arm. l turned
In my seat. Ii was Vanderwater who had
startled me. He was bent in his seat, gaz-
ing fercely through the low windows of the
car, and pointing to an open carriage which
came from lower Fifth Avenue, and was
crossing the square going north. In it sat
| recognized Mrs. Fanderwaterl
Her husband, too, had seen her, but in
stead OF springing from the car and pursu-
ing the carriage, which was now passing
rapidly through Upper Fifth Avenue, he
sat like one in a stupor. lie did not speak
word, but sat like a statue in lis place, and
almost as white and cold When he had
reached the street car route nearest his house
We got out He took nv arm but showed no
other sign of emotion. We walked block,
and turned the corner nearest his house
We we're surprised to find carriage at the
door, and the servants removing baggage
from it into the house. He quickened his
step, drawing me rapidly with him. As he
entered the gate and was ascending the steps
a light scream was heard in the parlors, fol-
lowed bya cry of Papa papal u and there
came bounding out to meet him, young
girl still in her travelling dress. She threw
her arms around his neck. 1t was his daugh-
ter-the one who had been travelling in Eu-
rope with her mother. She smothered him
with kisses, and he carried her, half faint
ing with joy, aud amidst convulsive sobs, in-
to the parlor, whittier followed Miss Van
derwater was there, and seeing my natural
embarrassment, she came up to rue and told
me the particulars of her sis'er's unexpect-
ed arrival. Her statement was interrupted
by her father, who started up and asked,
wildly:
And your mother-where is she?"
She remains in Europe" she answered.
"Oh! para
Europe! are you sure?"
Yes, you-but let me tell you all about
it. Oh, papa do you know ma thinks she
has found Nellie?''
Found Nellie !" exclaimed the father
''Oh, it is so strangel When we were in
Rome early this year, the Consultold ma of a
lady who had lately been privately married
to friend of his, and who strangely resem-
bled her and the likeness was so remark
able that the Consul afterwards frequently
referred to it. One day he brought us her
photograph he told US that the lady and
her husband had left Rome for Paris, and
that he supposed there was no harm in
showing US the photograph as confirmation
of what he had said about the likeness
When he gave the photograph to mama,
she just glanced at it and tainted away"
Mr.. Eaudersater stared at his daughter in
anazement.
When she came to, which was in a few
moments, she said to me, 1t is your sister
dear, l feel 1t is my lost baby" The
Consul did not know what it all meant, and
l was too much agitated to tell him. When
ma was sufficiently calmed she told him the
story of how Nellie had been lost in Paris,
fifteen years before, aud how all search for
her had been vain He at once became in
terested in the case, and set persons to work
to trace up the gentleman and his wife. He
said the gentleman had strong reasons for
wishing the marriage secret-that he wish
ed to conceal Nellie antecedents. Oh, pa.
pa, she has been a model for one of the ar
fists in Rom" amidst her sobs the
agitated young girl went on to explain that
the Consul and Mrs. Vanderwater were in
Paris endeavoriDg to trace the couple whose