The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-10-29
NEW ORLEANS no NAME +"
A Case Astounding in Parallels to "lk'e
0 Collins Fanciful Creation.

O,e NJ IN. hes, Of Wilke Collins inter.
LOO stor;es i. called No Name" aDd
;nc = nt.I 10 the unfolcing Of iIs narrative
accure. meu,ion Of the city Of New Oheins,
TN, wheoce one Of the chief chsrac ers ID
m. s,or, receives mysterious letter. No
N.m.n is purely q work Of fiction, ana IL
!. ,old in Collins own magnetic styie, sothat
il ,mm .nds the earnes, attention OF e'e'
the moe, critical Of readers =,
Curiously enough, in this late day, thar
6.T,on ma. come 10 lind in the same New
OrIeans . prototype of TRUTH realistic
..,;.odr which might we'll have s.rved Tor
ne groundwork OF Collins remarkable MR.
rstive.
The facts Of the case. which were p:essn-
ted 10 the writer hut thirty-si1 honfs Ego
will b. here ir.stiy given:
Into within a wear ago there resided IN
the CIV. well known in fashionable circies,
middle-agei wealthy, ret'reu
merchan;-aEd charming young iady' WY
was known before the world az his daueh-
ter The gentleman was left widower ear
iv IN lite. and thereafter devoted hinsslf 10
the society of his daughter. who, deeply ale
fecionaie toward her father, lavished hef
care. solicitude and love upon him, even TO
the exclusion OF free participation IN me
fashionable pleasures Ci lie, which were
buualiinily at her command. "heh-
ever she yentured forth either for The
promInade, the in exchange OF social cour'e
ei.s, or sn occasioi al indulgence IN lie es ana
anusemcais, she was ever seen at her Ia
,her's side, and she was happily content to
manifest her earnest desire 4, seek 20 ttHer
socieiy-nO other friendship.
Thus there two lived and loved toge;htr,
and they tecame invested in the circle OF
their socie'y with hailowed interes', ana
the story of their lives was the subject winch
entered largely into he current socie:y Top,
ic- Gthe day Ii was generally understood
that the daughter was the sole heiress TO her
fs,ner's great 20 sessi NJ, and that his death
would transmit to her the riches OF prin-
ce-s. Tnis was, indeed, the avowed sentI-
ment Of her father, and he failed not to i'm
press upon her mind the fact that IN bl.
will he would indicate that bis purpose had
been faithfully carried to frui.ion.
Here, however, ia presented the first par.
nllel to the fanciful creation of Collirs'
brain.
Pater fsmilias deferred the making OF his
will from day to day, although urged to dc
30 by his daughter, and 10th, "a man usual
lv j., to take up the theme which brings be
fore his mind the unpleasant SUBJECT o
death.
Lees than twe,vemon,h ago he was sud
denly stricken with fatal illness, and thel
for the firss time nerved himself TO deter
mination to execute the will in ful6ilmen
of his duly, but the hand OF death, which
had come upon hun, stayed no; its force TO
the communication OF his desire, and ere h
could work out that wish he died. Tn
second parallel. And now steps in the sec
ond parallel to Collins creation. The deatl
of the father revealed that she whom tn
word had looked upon "a hi. daughter wa
his illegitimate child. She had Tor year
been painfully aware of il; her fathers reia
tive. had known it, and 10! the seque. Of III
story is furnished in the recital that wheI
the grave closed over the departed they a.
psared 10 claim his possessions. and TO dr.y
fortn into the world the fair young Girl whit
had earned the reward of paternal love, bu
Who, through the inscrutable dspe nsa.ioLs o
Providence, found herseH at last homeIes,
friendless and poor, turned adrift to bail
with the bitter realities of life, without ;
name, and without friend.
The kindred Of the man, whose dyin.
moments we're embittered by the though
that the object of his hf='s love would SAT
fer through his own unmeant justice, Were
leg lily the posses-ors OF that wealth which
w4s, by every sense of right, her meet re
ward, and they ,urOed from her who bort
no name rs from one whose prese intectes
their very eIistance. Thus then has th'
sory ended. The ou,cast still lives in he
pstive CITY, ireading the humblest path o
If, seeking by arduous labor with hel
needle to gain livelihood. She lives with
in herself, drifting through life unnoticei
and shrinking from con act with the wor!d
wno,e cruel sorrows have blighted her life
She may be seen each day iresding III
crowded thoroughf.res in the hurried pnr
sui, of her Calling, but of the hundreds wht
pass and repass her few dream OF tie ecr
ro~ful history OF which she Is the heroine
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