The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-20

TO follow it up, l had no right after his
death to raise the question myself, seeing
that the young lady and her mother were
now my clients, and it was my duty to
protect them.
But, as the young lady informs me that
her mother practically confessed the
fraud and as she herself wishes the mat
ter investigated, have sent for you She
wishes you to know the circumstances,
and to prove or disprove the statement
yourself. 1t is an extraordinary one Mrs
Stanmore threatens her daughter that
II she holds any further communication
with you she will reveal the fact that she
is not a Stanmore, at ALL but the daughter
OF a poor woman whose husband had de-
serted her, and who parted with her child
soon after its birth to Mrs. Stanmore. The
anonymous letter to your brother stated
that this woman had planned the whole
fraud with Mrs. Stanmore and carried it
out in her husbands absence with the
cohnivance of woman at the seaside
IN whose houses Mrs. Stanmore took
apartments and where she represented to
her husband that her child was born"
And If this terrible story is true?''
II we prove the story true with the
exception of a thousand a year left to his
WIDOW, the whole of your brothers prop
erty Is yours. and that property produces
from four to five thousand a wear R,,t
before l take any steps in the matter I
want your instructions. Either you will
proceed legally, which will eventually
mean crimlnally, against Mrs Stanmore
or for the sake of the young lady. Won
VIII effect compromise"
! hardly knew what to say. The story
was so strange that / didn't at first quite
grasp what 1t meant. Eventually l agreed
10 leaVe the matter to the solicitors dis
erection, only begging him to refrain az
int 1rin ~,
had behaved so honorably and nobiy in the
matter. 1t was impossible for me to take
the matter up personally. l had Nellie
to think about, and the trip to the south
must be taken at once, if her life was to be
saved.
Twelve months later happy little
Christmas party sat round the dinner ta-
bic in pretty house nesting among the
pine woods of Bournemouth. My daugh-
ter Nellie, now happily on the way TO re-
covery, was the brightest and gayest Of
the party, and by her side there sat one
whom had grown to love as a daughter
and who had come to make her home with
us.
Mr.. Brandreth during my absence abroad
had followed up the clue and obtained
sufficient evidence Of the fraud which had
been perpetrated in order to keep me out
Stanmore to throw herself on our mercy.
! did not WISH for Roses sake, to let the
scandal be made public, and so Mrs. Stan
more was allowed 20 go abroad after hav-
ing written out the full particulars of her
iniquity, and signed the confession, and
Rose came TO live with us, and brought
her income with her. every legal precau-
tion having been taken to ensure the
property passing 20 us in the event of her
marriage.
Ana not once but a dozen times that
happy, peaceful Christmas day did thank
God that twelve months previously. in nv
despair and torture, l had made up my
mind to swallow up my pride and appeal
10 my brothers wife for help. Had / not
taken that Christmas day walk Rose
would never have known our story. and
my darling would have
All, it is not good to think Of what might
have been when the danger II past. ana
only happiness and peace ahead. Ny dar-
ilngs arms are round my neck. her sweet
lips press my check. and she whispers
softly in my ear: "Oh, Dad how nanny
we all arev' And the past Is forgotten
The End.