The Morning herald., 1877-01-11
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ter. At last he had to be sent to an asy-
lum. Some examination was made by the
authorities, but nothing ever came of it.
The papers made no mention of the affair,
and it was hushed up."
Brandon read on. AT last he came to
another name. 1t was simply this: "Bran-
don." There was slight movement on
the clerks part a. Brandon came to this
name. There is no Christian name here"
said Brandon. II suppose they did not
know it,"
SWELL" said the clerk, ''there's some
thing puculiar about that. The former
clerk never mentioned it to any body but
me. That man didn't die at all"
"What do you mean?" said Brandon,
who could scarcely speak for the tremen-
dous struggle between hope and despair
that was going on within him.
'Its false entry"
"Howf -
"The superintendent wrote that See,
the handwriting is different from the others.
One is that of the clerk who made all these
entries; the other is the superintendent's."
BRANDED looked and saw that this was
the case.
"What was the cause Of thatF'
"The clerk told me that after making
these next fifteen entries of buried parties
buried the evening after these last Twelve
he went away to see about something.
he came back the next morning this name
was written in the superintendent's hand.
He did not know what to think of it. 80
he concluded to ask the superintendent
but in the course of the day he heard that
he was mad and in confinement, az have
told you."
"Then you mean that this is not an entr
ola death at all"
Eyes. The fact is. the superintendent for
some reason got it into his head that this
Brandon"-and he pointed to Edith's name
-"had been buried alive, He hrooded over
the name, and among other things wrote it
down here at the end OF the list for the day.
That's the way in which my predecessor
accounted for it."
1T is very natural one" said Bran
don.
"Quite so The clerk let it stand. You
see, if he had erased it, he might have been
overhauled, and there would have been a
committee. He was afraid of that; so he
thought it better TO say nothing about it.
He wouldn't have told me, only he said
that party came here once for list of all
the dead of the "Tecumseh," and he cop
led all out, including this doubtful one.
He thought that he had done wrong, and
therefore told me, SO that if any particular
inquiries were ever made might know
what to say"
"Are there many mistakes in these re-
cord?'
II dare say there are good many in the
list for 1896 There was so much confu-
sion that names got changed, and people
died whose names could only be conjectur-
ed by knowing who had recovered. As
some Of those that recovered or had not
been sick slipped away secretly, Of course
there was inaccuracy."
Brandon had nothing more to ask. He
thanked the clerk and departed.
Thsre was faint hope, then, that Frank
might yet be alive. On his way up to
Quebec he decided what to do. AS soon as
he arrived he inserted an advertisement in
the chief papers to the following effect:
NOTICE!.
INFORMATION of any one of the name of
".BRANDON," who came out in the ship
Tecumseh in 1916 from Liverpool to Que
bee, is earnestly desired by friends Of the
family. A liberal reward will be given to
any one who can give the above informa-
tion, Apply to
HENRY PETERS
% Place d'Armes.
Brandon waited in Quebec six weeks
without any result. He then went to Nom
treal and inserted the same notice in the
papers there, and in other towns in Canada.
giving his Montreal address. After wait
ing five or six weeks in Montreal he went
to Toronto, and advertised again, giving
his new address. He waited here for some
time, till at length the month of November
began to draw to close. Not yet despon-
dent, he began to form plan for advertis-
ing in every city Of the United States.
Meanwhile he had received many COM
all of which, however, were
made with the vague hope of getting re-
ward. None were at all reliable. At
length he thought that it was useless to
wait any longer in Canada, and concluded
to 20 to New York as centre ofaction.
He arrived in New York at the end of
December, and Immediately began to insert
lis notices in all parts of the country, giving
his address at the Astor House.
One day, as he came in from the street,
he was informed that there was some one
IN his roo,l who wished 10 see him. He
vent up calmly, thinking that it vas some
1ew person with intelligence.
On entering the room he saw man
standing by the window, in his shirt-sleeves
lressed in coarse clothes. The man was
very tall, broad.shouldered, with large, 4