The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-05-25

of my own without using what
belonged to my husband, and re-
fused to commence the legal pro.
cesses necessary. | simply man
aged tho business, placed the pro,
fits in bank to your fathers &C.
count and spent money ofmy own
freely in advertising and paying
detectives, while | economized in
every other way. Ny fortune en-
abled me to save considerable
money.
Things went on so for more
than three years. One day re.
ceived a letter from the lawyers
mine as we'll as his. A cheek for one
hundred pounds, dated at Paris,
and with your fathers name at
the bottom, had been presented
! by the London bank which bad
received it from a Paris bank for
payment. The lawyers said that
if would enter formal objection
they thought they could avoid
having it paid. l refused to enter
objections. 1t was paid, and l
! took a journey to Paris at once.
i spent money freely there with
only one clew, and with that a
doubtful one, to reward me. |
believed my husband and James
Watson were together, and my
agents believed they had traced
James Watson to Geneva. So l
searched Switzerland personally
and by agents. and failed utterly.
'For a whole year "e paid
drafts, all drawn in England, and
all drawn for small amounts, at
the rate Of about one a week, and
l hunted all over En- gland in the
track of the dates Of those drafts,
and paid dozen men to do the
same thing for the.
"A report reached me from
Liverpool just then which led me
to believe that James Watson bad
been seen to embark on a vessel
for Melbourne. Another man was
with him. There was u good
deal of doubt as to the second
man being my husband, and a lit
tie as to the first one being james
Watson. took the risk on both,
and sailed on the next vessel for
Australia.
The mails went on board, after
which passengers would have
been unable to 60. And our own
vessel carried a letter to me al
Melbourne, informing me Of q
draft made since the vessel which
was supposed to have carried
James Watson and my husband
had sailed. That settled the mat
ter. | took the next vessel back
I followed faint clew, which in'
dicated Watson, 10 Alexandria, tc
Berlin, to St. Petersburg. l. hur
ried back to England to trace
draft made in London. I started
to investigate the case ofa mar
who registered at hotel in Sar
Francisco as James Watson, anc
whose description was not unlike
that of our James Watson, anc
hurried away to the boat from
| New York, leaving tickets fol
San Francisco unused, on -eceip
of cable dispatch from my law
yers regarding another draft
Rome, Washington, Paris again
now on one clew now on another
1t has been a hard life. You hav'
been my only comfort.
"A month before the Centenn!a
exhibition opened in Philadelphia
We paid a draft made in that city
We paid seven, all made there
while the exhibition was in pro
gress. l spent a month ther
with you and FIVE of the sbrewdes
detectives in America worked 70
me during the entire time. W
have paid more than one bundre'
thousand pounds in all. Wo pai'
twelve thousand last year.
would give all l own to meet you
father again and be reconcile'
with tim.'
Why are you going to Americ
now?'
sFor no reason in the worlc
The last check was made in Lor
don the day before We sailed.
have tried system long enough
1 am trying luck this time
What shall you
he paused and glanced at hi
mother.
Her face was pale and her eye
! set. She clutched his arm With