Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-05-30
THE MISSING DEED.

"Any news from the case this morn
ing, Mr.. Hutchinson?'
This question was asked by Mr..
John IIolbrook, senior member of the
law firm of Holbrook g. Hutchinson,
one certain morning. in the latter part
of September, as he entered the Of
flee.
E Ills partner. Tom Hutchinson. witt
out looking up from the papers ne Va
reading, answeredin the negative.
"Well," continued the senior mem
ber Of the firm, I'VE must exhaust
every effort to find the missing deed
There is a letter in the mornings mail
from Mr.. Arnold, authorizing us to
increase the reward to five thousand
dollars"
"That ought to fetch it, if it is in ex-
istence," said Tom Hutchinson
And he threw down his papers, and
he wheeled his Office chair to face Mr..
Charles Wilson, aged twenty-five
with legal aspirations, who was read
ing in the Office Of this celebrated
firm
Wilson, he said, write out anoth-
er advertisement, in the Arnold case,
and take it around to the Ledger"
Eyes sir" answered the young
man.
And lie took a sheet of paper and
began to write.
After awhile. he read the following,
and the firm agreed that it was the
proper thing:
! "INFORMATIoN WANTED Information want
ed of a certain parchment deed given by Andrew
! sharp to Archi aid Arnold, conveying TO the sand
! Arnold certain parcel of land, containing ao'ul
/ one hundred and thirty five thousand acres, more
or less situated in the state of Iowa s1d deeo
having been given at burlington, Iowa, III the yeal
1915. This deed was lost or stolen some hlteeh
1 wears ago, and any one furnishing information
4 which will lead to its recovery, will receive re
ward of five thousand dollars by applying to HoL
BROOK & HUTCHINSON, Attorneys at Law, fhif
adelphia, Pa.
YOU'D better take it around at
once" said the head of the firm.
And the young man left the Office
to perform the errand.
Messrs. Holbrook and Hutchinson /:
student was a poor young man-Ver!
poor but he had stout heart anC
great ambition, and although he foun(
it a serious matter to make ends meet
he was studying very hard to periec
himself for the bar, after which auspi'
cious event, he felt that all would b'
plain sailing.
He had rosy day-dreams, sometimes
of future, after fame and Weal'i
should have fallen to his share, an'
the central figure of these dreams wa
pretty Madge Bevan, who was neart
as poor as himself, and whom he ha'
loved ever since he was a boy a
school
"If could find the missing deed II
thought, as he hurried to the newspa
per office, call would be well fN
thousand dollars would give rae a goo'
start in life, and 1 could make dea
Madge happy, and lift the burden .
the support of her mother from ne
frail shoulders. 1 shall be admitted I
the bar next term, and it will be pre'''
uphill work at first, unless l nave
reserve capital. By-the-way, ne mu'
tered, aloud, Il promised Madge
take tea with them this evening
Charlie Wilson had expended agfe"
deal of thought on the most impor'"l'
factor in the great land case OF ArhoD
rs Sharp. the missing deed to the ln'
mense tract of Western land, ana = :,
the past month he had spent ms iu'
moments visiting junk-stores' III -
hope of somewhere running aeiO1
the parchment. =,
In the course of his search ne DO