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regained consciousness. They talk.
ed the matter over until finally
Meyer fell in with Mrs. Hirsh's way
of thinking. The nurse had no chill
dren and she said she would take
one of the girls. Meyer was salts
fed with that, and two days after
birth one of the children was remov-
ed to Mrs. Hirsh's home in Hoboken
and nurse employed to look after
it. Meyer signed the papers and it
was agreed that Mrs. Meyers should
know nothing of the transaction.
The next day the invalid returned
to consciousness. Her health came
back, and her baby was christened
Annie. Mrs. Hirsh went to her
Hoboken home and hal her protege
baptized under the name of Mamie
Hirsh.
Bad luck came to the little green
grocery after that. For three years
business gradually fell of. Meyer
lost all his money, the shutters
were put up for good, and he tramp
ed around the streets looking for
work. II was hard to find. In short,
he never found it. SO he got up
very early one morning, without
disturbing his wife or little Annie.
He walked over as far as Grove and
Hudson streets, and standing with
st. Luke's Episcopal Church on one
side and the public school on the
other, he pulled out n big old coun-
try revolver and blew his brains out.
Friends came forward to help the
widow, and she took her furniture
and baby and moved up to the
house on OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
sixth street, where she lives to-day.
She was n fine seamstress, and OBJ
taing, sewing, she pursued her daily
work ignorant of the existence of
another daughter. Annie grew up
to be fine looking young woman.
She studied shorthand and learned
how to use n typewriter, and found
n pleasant position in the Office of
well known Harlem lawyer. She
made many friends and engaged
herself to DIR. Samuel ID. Kratzner,
a wealthy young German, who grad
uated from the Columbia School of
Mines. The wedding was to have
taken place on December 10. About
three weeks ago she caught a severe
cold. Pneumonia developed rapidly,
and despite the efforts of the doc
tors she died.
Mrs. Hirsh, who adopted one of
the twins, never communicated with
the Meyers. She lived at 20 South
street, Hoboken. Mamie Hirsh
grew up as strong and handsome as
; on unknown sister. For So. se-sSs
ten years Mr.. Hirsh has been an in
valid, unable to do any work. About
the same time when Annie Meyer
caught the cold which resulted fa-
tally, he died, leaving his wife and
adopted girl almost destitute.
After thinking the matter over
and taking into consideration her
advanced age, Mrs. Hirsh conclud-
ed to return to Germany and pass
the rest of her days with her friends
in the Fatherland. After the sale
of her furniture she found she did
not have money enough to take
Mamie with her, so she wrote to her
relatives in Europe for money and
waited for a reply.
Before it came she read in the
newspapers of the death of Annie
Meyer. Her conscience began to
trouble her, and she concluded to
return her adopted daughter to her
own mother. She told the girl the
true history of her life, and told her
that she must go back to her moth
er. Then she sat down and wrote
the letter which Mrs. Meyer receiv-
ed last Wednesday from the hand
of her daughter.
The morning after the letter was
written they bid each other tear
full goodbye. Mamie started for
Harlem, while Mrs. Hirsh went
aboard the German steamship which
sailed that night. This is the ro-
nance.