The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-07-16
THE MISSING DEED.

"Any news from the case thi.
morning, Mr.. Hutchinson"
This question was asked by Mr.
John Holbrook, senior members O
the law firm of Holbrook & Hutch.
inson, one certain morning, in the
latter part Of September, as he enter.
ed the office.
His partner, Tom Hutchinson
without looking up from the paper:
he was reading, answered in the
negative.
We'll" continued the senior mem
Der of the firm, I'VE must exhaust
every effort to find the missing deed
There is a letter in the morning.
mail from Mr.. Arnold, authorizing
US to increase the reward to five
thousand dollars"
THAT ought TO fetch it, if it is
in existance," said Tom Hutchin-
son.
And he threw down his papers,
and he wheeled his Office chair to
face Mr.. Charles Wilson, aged
twenty-five, with legal aspiration,
who was reading" in the Office OF
this celebrated firm.
Wilson," he said, write out
another advertisement, in the Arnold
case, and take it around to the
Ledger"
"Yes sir p answered the young
man.
And he took a sheet of paper and
began to write.
After awhile be read the following,
and the firm agreed that it was the
proper thing:
'INFoRNATIoN WANTED. - Information
wanted of certain parchment deed. given
by Andrew Sharp 10 Archibald Arnold, con.
veying to the said Arnold certain parcel
| of land, containing about one hundred and
| thirty-five thousand acres, more or less, sit
uated in the state of Iowa, said deed having
| been given at Burlington. Iowa, in the yeai
| 1s45. This deed was lost or stolen some
| fifteen years ago, and any one furnishing
information which will lead TO its recovery
will receive a reward of FIVE thousand dol
lars by applying to HoLBRooK & HUTcHIN-
son, Attorneys-at-Law,P Philadelphia, Pa
You'd better take it around al
once" said the head of the firm.
And the young man left the office
to perform the errand.
Messrs. Holbreok and Hutchin.
sons student was a poor young
man-very poor-but he had stout
heart and great ambition, and al.
though he found it serious matter
to make ends meet, he was studying
very hard to perfect himself for the
bar, after which auspicious event
he felt that all would be plain
sailing.
He had rosy day-dreams, some
times, of future, after fame and
wealth should have fallen to hi:
share, and the central figure of those
dreams was pretty Madge Bevan
who was nearly as poor as him
self, and whom he had loved
ever since he was a boy at school.
"If | could find the missing deed
he thought, as he hurried to the
newspaper office, "all would be well
Five thousand dollars would give
me a good start in life, and l coulc
make dear Madge happy, and lifl
the burden of the support of he
mother from her frail shoulders.
shall be admitted to the bar mex
term, and it will be pretty uphill
work at first, unless / have reserv,
capital. By-the-way." he muttered
aloud, Il promised Madge to TAX,
tea with them this evening"
Charlie Wilson had expended ,
Igreat deal of thought on the mos
most important factor in the grea
land case of Atnold Us. Sharp, the
missing deed to the immense tract
of Western land, and for the pas
month he had spent his idle mo-
ments visiting junk-stores, in thu
hope of somewhere running across
the parcnment.
In the course of his search he haC
overhauled tons of old paper, but Sc
far he could discover not the slight
est trace of the missing document
and hundreds of thousands of 9th
ers who had been tempted by
the large reward offered for it
discover, were equally uEsuccess
full.
To-day he thought more about
the deed than he did of Coke anG
Blackstone, and was so restless
and pre-occupied that when The
clock struck three he laid aside hi.
books and left the Office.