The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-07-19
Missing Deed

ing, Mr.. Hutchinsona'
This question was asked by Mr.. John
Holbrook, senior member of the law
firm of Holbrook & Hutchinson, one
certain morning, in the latter part
of September, as he entered the office.
His partner, Tom Hutchinson, with
out looking up from the paper he was
reading, answered in the negative.
"Well," continued the senior men,
Der of the firm, eve must exhaust every
effort to find the missing deed. There
is letter in the mornings mail from
Mr.. Arnold, authorizing us to increase
the reward to five thousand dollars"
"That ought to fetch it, ifit is in ex-
istence," said Tom Hutchinson.
And he threw down his papers, and
he wheeled his office chair to face Mr..
Charles Wilson, age twenty-five, with
legal aspirations, who was "reading"
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 he took sheet ofpaper and be-
gan to write.
After awhile, he read the following,
and the firm agreed that it was the prop
e. thing:
"INFoRNIATIoN WANTED.-Informa-
ton wanted of a certain parchment
deed, giving by Andrew Sharp to Arch
ibald Arnold, conveying to the said
Arnold certain parcel of land, con-
tanning about one hundred and thirty
five thousand acres, more or less, stu
ated in the state of Iowa, said deed
having been given in the year 1845.
This deed was lost or stolen some fifteen
years ago, and any one furnishing in
formation which will lead to its re-
covery, will receive reward of five
thousands dollars by applying to HoL-
BROOK & HUTCHINSON, Attorneys-at-
Law, Philadelphia, Pa"
| S"You'd d better take it around at once" +"
4 And the young man left the office to
perform his errand.
Messrs. Holbrook and Hutchinson's
student was a poor young man-very
poor-but he had stout heart and
great ambition, and although he found
it a serious matter to make ends meet,
he was studying very hard to perfect
himself for the bar, after which auspi-
cious event, he felt that all would be
plain sailing.
He had rosy day-dreams, sometimes,
of future, after fame and wealth
should have fallen to his share, and the
central figure of these dreams was pref
ty Madge Bevan, who was nearly as
poor as himself, and whom he had loved
ever since he was boy at school.
eff could find the missing deed, "
he thought, as he hurried to the news
paper office, call would be we'll. Five
thousand dollars would give me good
start in life, and I could make dear
Madge happy, and lift the burden
of the support of her mother from her
frail shoulders. I shall be admlllcu ~
the bar next term, and it will be pretty
up. hill work at first, unless 1 have re-
serve capital. By-the-way," he mutter-
ed, aloud, ri promised Madge to take
tea with them this evening""
Charlie Wilson had expended great
deal of thought on the most important
factor in the great land case of Arnold
VS.. Sharp, the missing deed to the i'm.
mense tract of Western land, and for
the past month he spent his idle mo-
ments visiting junk-stores, in the hope
of somewhere running across the parch-
ment.
In the course of his search he had
overhauled tons of old paper, but SC
far he could discover not the slightest
trace of the missing document, and
hundreds of others who had been tempt
ed by the large reward offered for its
discovery, were equally unsuccessful.
| To-day he thought more about the
deed than he did of Coke and Black
stone, and was so restless and pre-occu
pied that when the clock struck three
he laid down his books and left the Of
flee.
Mrs. Bevan and her pretty daughte
| llVCQ III dill OlO IcI Iul-uOuoC III tll'
suburbs.
Madge was employed as copyist il
big Market street publishing house
and she usually finished her days worl
at a o'clock.
| Until that hour, Charlie paced slow
| ly up and down thesidewalk in front o
the tall building where she worked.
| They walked home together, ant
Charlie, of course, spoke of the miss
ing deed.
They amused themselves with discuss
ing what they would do with the reward
supposing they should find the impor
tant document, and were talking il
this ridiculous strain when they reach
ed Madge's home.
"Tea is ready" said Mrs. Bevan
greeting Charlie kindly, "and I've open
ed jar of my homemade strawberry
| iellv iuct for vour benefit I"