Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-25

at Is not so difficult TO find anyone as
yoi Imagine. ! shall seek the help of one
ort"bLl. "a rom 50 laul Yard. and Won
viii s-s taat We shall o have news for
goa he said, hopefully-and he believed
what he said.
For some time after this interview,
friends and servants all noticed how ex-
cited and restless Lord Carlswood had
become. 1t seemed to him impossible that
he should ever look upon the face of his
child katrine again. He was always won
dering If news had been heard OF her-if
she were found.
Weeks passed, and. though Mr.. Ford
wrote constantly, his letters contained but
little intelligence. One came mt last which
threw Lord Carlswood into a fever of ex-
element. Mr.. Cameron and his wife had
been traced first to London, where they
had lived some months, and in all proba-
bility had spent the little money they had.
In London Thornton Cameron tried hard
for IA professional engagement; but, young.
unknown, without friends or influence.
how was he TO succeed? From the great
city he had zone TO Liverpool. only too
thankful TO take an engagement that
brought him In a hundred per annum. In
Liverpool he and his wife had taken furn-
ished lodgings; and there n little csild,
baptized at St. Johns Church under the
name Of lsmay Cameron, had been born.
In Liverpool Mr.. Cameron had tried the
hopeless and difficult task of ~endeavoring
To maintain a lady, brought up in the
midst OF affiuence and luxury, on the hun
dred per annum. The struggle had been
from the very first a most hopeless one.
With a careful economical wife he might
have weathered the storm: but Katrine
had seldom heard the word economy"
and had but a poor idea of what it really
meant, She was perfectly ignorant of the
value Of money; she had always had ex-
actly what she wished-the cost of IL was
a matter she had never considered. She
mad been brought up IN one OF the most
luxurious homes in England-what could
she possibly know OF mall economies and
sordid cares? She wondered why, now
that Thornton had an engagement, they
could not have good wine. She was i'll,
and she missed her fathers wine more
than anything else. She raised her beau
titul eyes in wonder when Thornton once
wishing to please her, brought her a bottle
OF Fine old Port"
'N'' ~ NV So'NA ~ iiOA htphy OAS
said lit is not like the wine we had at
home. Get me sone OF that"
It was with difficulty he made her I'M
derstand that he could not afford it, and
it was with equal difficulty he taught
her even more painful facts. He gave up
the task in utter despair, and started out
in the world again TO find something bet
ter"
r a-..- A. 49, - - Cl~-
ter il was found that, after struggling for
some time with adverse circumstances,
fate and fortune both against him, he had
broken down entirely. He had spoiled his
life by The very action that he had hoped
would make it. He had thought to reap
a fortune by marrying the only daughter
of "a rich nobleman, instead of which he
had marred every prospect that life held
for him. How could he, Il poor, unknown
musician, without friends or interest, keep
an elegant, refined lady in comfort-nay,
supply her with the most common neces-
sarics Of life? He could not possibly do
it. and the knowledge that he had made
such IA lamentable mistake killed him.
He had been seized with "A dangerous i'll
ness, which gave but little hope that he
would ever recoVer
lie had battled with it for some time,
but AT last he had died, and had been
buried at Chester. His wife had remained
there for some time in the greatest desti.
tuition, and then left, taking her little girl
with her; and there all trace of her and
the child had been lost. Some Of the
cleyercst detectives in England had been
employed TO ii2I her and had failed. Mr..
Ford, who had undertaken the chief di-
rccrton, was ashamed OF his failure; he
did all that vas possible, but he ayerred
himself at last that the task was hopeless,
and that he had no choice but to abandon
it.