Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-11-27
THE LANDsTREETs.
A STORY OF THE PEACH Country,
OSCAR DALE.
Copyrighted By The Every Evening Publishing cc
CHAPTER XIII.
A sEw SORROW At IAsDsrRnxr's.


More than week passed before Barlow
received response to his letter sent TO
friend IN New York asking 10 have q
search Of the records Of deaths and mar
riages swiftly made by competent men.
There was no record, the answer was, Of
the death Of any Margaret Grantley, and
though one had been married. she had
not been widow and thanks to the zeal
Of the searohers she had been discovered,
and proved to be an English immigrant
who had been married here shortly after
her arrival. Barlow had been to Land.
streets several times meanwhile, but
when he arrived with this information
Tom was ovsrjoyed.
~ told ye she wasn't Dead" he cried.
"But," said Barlow scared at such
perfect confidence on so slight basis,
"We don't know, you must remember,
that she was In New York. She may have
gone somewhere else."
"No," insisted Tom, 81 feel II In my
bones that she's livin' and that yell find
her In New York"
$50 be IT," responded the young man,
"but II she's living and 9 widow, her
name 10 Grantley and have ordered q
search Of that to be made"
Glow soon sre ye goin' on yerseli :"
asked Tenn eagerly.
81 ohn finish up my business arising
out Of the close Of school this week" an
swered Barlow, "and l shall start sAtur-
day."
"fhAt's right" said Tom. "IfI could
be Of any use I'D 60 with ye. By the
way" he continued, "ye must keep us
rostad rf0ht alongi,
81 will write to you quite frequently"
said Barlow.
eyed jlst as well write to Katie, As
she'll have TO do the answerin'," said
Tom, and catching the quick look Of de-
light In the young mans eyes he added,
81 Isuppose ye'd have done that any way"
"Thank you, I'll write every day."
replied Barlow.
"Well, put some senee and news into
the letters for me-, and dor't fill 'sm
chuck full Of nothin' bat d-n nonsense
Of no interest to anybody but the gal"
said old Tom who had fallen by this time
into the habit Of treating Barlow as an
accepted suitor without regard to oondi-
tions.
When Barlow explained this arrange.
ment TO Katie they devised q plan for
nUp&tAttuk WhAt tuo Oiu RSbtl6uhh Id-
garded as the whest from the ohatf, and
this plan was that each envelope should
CON ain two letters, one sort OF bulletin
giving strict account Of his movements
In the search for Maggie and the other
q letter intended for Katie's eyes alone
This struck them As an admirable method
Of avoiding any undue strain on Mr..
Landstrset's patience ~ mingling what
he did mot care for with that which he
wanted. This matter was thus talked
over and settled on the Friday night be-
fore Barlow left for New York and the
young people had the psrlor to them
selves for the purpose. They had much
besides to consider, for Barlow had
bought the little farm aud the prospective
occupants discussed the plaOs for the
home II was proposed to build on it.
This, too, was to BIZ the frat separation Of
the pair since their engagement aud after
all else bad been considered came OF
course . ErotrAoted leave taking into the
details Of which we will mol attempt to
pry.
Next day Barlow was of for New York,
and once there he lost no time In setting
about his search for the missing woman.
OF course he did not fully share Mr..
LAndstreet's faith that she would be
found, but he regarded II rs possible, and
remembering that she must have been
left on her husbands death poor young
girl to make her way in the great city
alone he sometimes INDUCED In gloomy
doubts as 10 whether or not her finding
would be matter for Joy. The package
had meanwhile arrived from Colonel
Butler, but as the letter within had never
been unsealed 1t was concluded to leave
II unopened until the search should
either prove successful or be abandoned
The marriage certificate was all right
signed by J. G. Register, and dated OIL
the very night before the troops had lei
BARdAd. In order to lose no time 10 Gas,
his search proved successful D rlow tool
the package with him
Letters soon began to arrive for Katie
and each, as agreed, contained . sort o
public bulletin to be read TO the family
aud likewise another which Katie usuall,
carried of to some quiet spot to read BY
herself. First came the announcement
that the house keeper who had know
Maggie had been discovered, and, he
memory being stimulated by some detail
Of the story Barlow told her, she declare,
that wherever Mrs. GrAntley might hAv
gone Afterwards she now remembere,
that she had At frat gone TO New York
Old Tom triumphantly ejAculated, g
told you so I" when this was read
Later came the announcement that n
such name as Margaret GrAntley ooul,
be found In the city directory for tina
year, nor could the name OF any one ar
swering the description be found In an
Of the old directories. This was NO
encouraging. Various bulletins givin
accounts Of unsuccessful efforts and falls
clues followed. Copies Of the "personRl
advertisements were sent aud also neWs
paper clippings giving the story, 6
written mp by Barlow for the variou
newspapers, under the heads Of I"
Romance Of the War;" ""Lost for Fourte'
Years." and so on, made ''sensAtional,
- Barlow explained mot merely to attraI
attention In the frat place, bat In ord,
to! insure wide copying. A naturI
shrinking on the part of Barlow had le
MIN TO suppress the name OF Landstre
in these publications, but shat Of CAPITA
Granuey had bssn given in full. I'll
newspapers really got interested In II, al
for week there was good deal In the
one way and another about the matter aI
the story was widely copied. BArlo
even made . trip to Philadelphia for u
purpose Of interesting the papers OF tn
city, where people were then gather,
from all over the world by the oentenni
exhibition, and he had the good fortui
to get the story inserted In one OF Il
papers printed to exhibit the working
q new press in Machinery Hall.
Presently he sent u bulletin announC
ing an important discovery, though
awaited nothing in the search. A lett
was received at one Of the new
paper ofaces from q Mr.. GrAntley
Detroit, saying that his son Henry b
been killed at Fredericksburg, and sd
ing that he had learned from his aisi
now deceased that his son had left
widow, though he had never been al
70 learn anything Of her whereabou
The writer asked the editor OF the neV
paper TO which he had written TO =
him in communication with any one W
had known his son. This incident "
communicated to the papers and teml
rarily TeAssured public intererest in I
search for the missing woman and 1t
TO correspondence between Barlow q
Mr.. Grantley which made II clear Il
the dead captain was the old gentlems
obtain information concerning his bo
last hours and WAS much pleased to lei
that Colonel Butler could not only g
him the information he sought, but q
probably tell where Captain Granite
body was buried. Mr.. Grantley VT
that he was now alone in the world,
and inhrm, and said that but for this
would hunt up the colonel. He q
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