The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-07-14
HUNTING A LEGACY.

INTO the room.
"Henriettel Henriettel Haven't you
read it' Don't you knowf" shouted She
out of breath Look see''
And she thrust the paper-The Petit
Rouennaie-under her eyes, pointing out
notice on the fourth page as follows:
Nine. Henriette Emilienne Bardonnel, daugh.
ter Of Pierre Augusta Bardonnel, late piano
tuner Rue de Grand Pont, ut Rouen, Is request.
ed to send her address, to NJ. Thiebault law.
yer, 80 Place du yieux- Marche, Havre property.
"You must write the lawyer at once
my dear--at once"
"Yes, 1 am going to, of course, Nine.
Dufrcsnes, right of, said Henrictte.
The following evening, in reply to her
letter, Mile. Barlonnel received word from
M. Thiebault asking her to come at once
to his office
TO pay current expenses check for 80
francs was incloscd. Decidedly things
were looking we'll and Nine. Dufresnes re-
marked upon it. M.."....."
''You were born with a silver spoon in
your mouth, my dear. I have always said
so. And NJ. Leonce-he, too, is very hap
py, is he mott Is he going with you to
Hayre2''
Nj. Leonce, or Leonce Lecarpentier was
the son of q linen draper on the Quat aux
Monies, n promising young bachelor of 49,
blond and hearty, but as gentle and timid
as lamb
Employed in his fathers shop for papa
Lecarpcntier did not believe any more than
was necessary in throwing his money into
the gutter, Leonce could only indulge
rarely his passion for the pretty little mil
liner. A bracelet or gown on her birth
day or at New Years, q few pienics on
Sundays during the summer and few
ff,- e1..t Ill
Restrained, however, by paternal and
business exigencies, Leonce had to let
Henrietta take tho journey alone from
Rouen to Havre.
The lawyers office was in the second
story of an DID, dilapidatad structure at
the end of courtyard.
M, Thiebault q thin little man, with
bent figure, sharp eyes under his large
copper trimmed spectacles and a black vel
vet cap on his head, motioned to the young
girl to take seat on his loft opposite the
window.
.Mlle. Bardonnel, supposc2"
"Yes, SIR
''You have taken care to bring your GER
tifieato of birth, as / suggcstcdy'
''Here 1t is, sir"
The lawyer unfolded he paper and care
fully read the statement.
good. Correcti Your father left France
about 1866, did he not, missa'
"Yes, sir. was then years old We
were going to meet him in New York.
My mother has often told me the story.
He wrote us three or four times as nearly
as / can remember. But we never received
any further news from him-never. My
mother has been dead six yenrs, and /
have no living relation except a cousin at
Elbeuf'
.tYour father, miss, died on Jan. 2e,
1879, in South America leaving fortune
valued at 12o,0 piasters, or 600, 600
francs, of which you are tho sole heir. To
enter into the possession of tho whole of
this fortune it will be necessary for you
to go there in person in order that you
may see my colleague, NJ. Guastella, who
Is the executor.
$50 way down theref But, monsieur,
p
1--WE shall advance the necessary amount
Have no fear on that score
"And when must starts"
Let us see-the Eurydice-the Meuse
Friday, Saturday. All, here 1t is-the
Iberie for Buenos Ayres. You will sail
next Monday That's rather soon You
have just tirle to get back to Rouen and
make your preparations. l shall expect
you then, madeInoiselle, on Monday next
without fail. !"
twenty-five days after Henriette Bar
donnel, fortified with NJ. Thiebault's in
structions aud suggestions, and with the
address of NJ. Guastella, Anibal Guastel
la, abogado, 1872 Bolivar street, In her
pocket, landed at Buenos Ayres, and re-
paired, with her trunk, to the hotel, SO fa-
yorably named De la Bonnie Soupe.
Within an hour after Henriette's arriv-
al and before she had finished her dinner
all her neighbors at the table, as well as
the proprietor and three servants, who
spoke French, were already informed Of
the motive and the object of her journey.
One of her neighbors the one on the
right, was an elegant and seductive Span
ish gentleman of 80 years, who murdered
French drcadfully. He answered to the
name of Manoel Alvarez and lived at
Monteyideo, where he was in the cattle
business
Like a gallant hidalgo, he offered to aid
| Henriette in her search, II she needed him
in short, he was at the service Of made
| moiselle.
Tho following morning early Henri
ette, with an interpreter, went to Bolivar
| street to the address of the advocate Guas-
tella
| No Guastella was at the number men
| toned, not even an abogndo III the build
| ing. Nor way he in any of the neighbor-
| ing buildings
| At No. 125 was business agent named
| Carlos Figueras. They sought him, but
| el Senior Figueras knew no advocate Guas-
tella He was sure, even, that there was
nobody of that namo in the whole city.
| .tThsre Is commission merchant Guas-
tella, 80 San MARITIME street. You might
| go and see him.
Quickly they departed for this Guastel-
| 10. He assured them he knew nothing Of
what they asked him; had never been writ
ten to by NJ. Thiebault at Havre, of whose
existence he was ignorant.
In what anxiety, in what horrible d.
lemma, poor Henriette found herself
For two days, escorted by her interpret
i er she secured the whole town, visited oil
the sbogados, lawyers, notaries, courtiers.
business agents. But no Anibal Guas
teIla, no Bardonnel property-nothius,
NJ Manoel Alvarez undertook to intro
duee her to the French consul
~ regret exceedingly, mademois"llt,
replied this functionnry to Henriette, "a
dispel such an agreeable illusion, but Il
there had been here an ulelasned Frencl
property should have been the first u
know 1t, and there Is none. You havs
been made tho victim Of hoax. u
Henrictte, when she returned to the ho
tel followed the consul's advice by oNplor
Ing her memory to find some one who hat
personal interest In expatriating her age
IN getting rid of her.
| And she found some one without grea
difficulty. 1t was Leonee's father, the OIL
scamp Of apapa Lecarpentler Not donp
of It,
/ On her account Lcoree haf i. slip ses-
eral good matches, a Mile. CoItois ef Lis
ieux among others. Now they were sehom
ing to make him marry Mile. Hennequin
daughter of merchant Of the Rue 81
| Sever.
| "For how r,any ssas did he buy tn
completely of that Hayre lawyer. Bn