Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-18
IllIDIBG OF A DREAM
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=. 1906, by the Author.a fTlsh' .,UrD TIT

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 p''r metropolitan papers the < srtcle: ,.ao4ntlv been made lirlss ss,a,,aintances r and business ?, 7 ass val street of MT. Charles ss ,,tIs Ia s VI view to discovering cover if sIis sis present 'bsat.ancs whereabouts, 11as one Poasa s.sriaus episodes wholly 1n- nls.ta 'sSar to his friends and &C., DO si'D to the police. He was a |apes 2 v ,sdste "a and regular habits
 ,da.,+sd d ssS to the pursuit of busi- ds'O.i stions in the stock market
 successful, accommodating a lesa Y, '1 The last week in May he made known to his clerk, sIls.lI' alDs his determination to
 ua .;sv and after putting hls P ,,'5 s,5 shape that his business .'ald ,aIi be protected by Kendall
 .i1 s disappeared. Word from ssI. la. form form was expected from " sss st tbe office, but as the weeks ''lAs \ have passed without any |,!sa la',s him whatever, considerable 'n 7, developed, and it has final aSsa,4rnined Sa, to put the matter in N, l''s' Sf the detectives.
 \, Dwell \ has not been seen since .la s'f bis apartments on the eyen- lsaa i. The janitor says that he { a usual on that occasion. He l 2 ssa Mir. Powell go out that .n fbe following morning. The m.n s rooms have been exam tbey furnish no clew as to the E.5jrsctIon he took upon leaving
 t has also been discovered sre here knows anything of MT. Essarly life. Kendall, the clerk Enrteriously ill the possession of ..gsrls nroperty, says he does |sys that Powell had any living although he is not certain. He ET,tbat Powell carried with him ka.l, 200 in money. ,
 ] Tp followed in other papers by 3 yDsstional articles, in which I gatlse concerning the romance Kendall and Anna Willis were ] mon with various embellish- 1 SoE 22 one of the papers con =hs allowing paragraph;
 Kendall, who says he was left Ia f Mr. Powell's affairs, and Eiibits as proof 3 typewriter 1t is claimed bears Mir. ] signature, appears to have ] aoeedingly nervous over the I published concerning his em- l disappearance. He was much kBi yesterday afternoon when in- #Ha reporter that many enter E apieions that he knew moro acase than he had told. 1t is &0d that liberal reward is to M for solution of the mys- Eh the next four weeks there ap- #a the newspapers of many cities kgE towns advertisements offer gard of $5, 1000 for information Elgat lead to the discovery of Powell, alive or dead. Similar zsaents also appeared in various #Fn throughout Europe, Canada, EMd South America.
 uffOn the date of Mir. Powelps snnee a review of the whole aPed several columns in one of
 York papers. The story of the 1aace was retold, followed in
 the steps taken to unravel the
 The advertisements had pro-
 Op of impostors who had en- Dy every possible subterfuge to las reward. The review con 'llh the following summary:
 Mlest possible investigation
 nade, but the mystery remains M as when Charles Powell first @@ mere IS no probability Rll ever be solved, unless me confession of some one who Aaed his destruction, for it is efea by every one who has had ausln With the case that Pow aalasred and his body destroy 4 eeiore his absence was made Rtae authorities.
 ss1 be remembered that Ken
 cooperation of a power of att as placed in full possession of ill'les, deposits, currency and
 '4sc's of the rich speculator. ss Knew Powell say he had nev-
 N'iayed sufficient faith in any completely trust him with his
 oO lar as known, Kendall has aaes' honest life, but the TO-
 IVY 'oid by both Kendall and
 0lcernlng Powell's sudden <. laaner, his anxiety for their marriage and his advice to
 4'elhlng certain investments \ s.s .a .s on his own account, are < V ~ 'ae s, mans nature that peo- ,n', Os blamed for entertaining
 4p,easant q. suspicious. ;
 VHAPTER ".
 ssaaali ss'l read this review of the a s'sEy ass with care, and when S w. was concluded he bent his
 us desk and groaned in bit lss ,s year had passed, and the
 'li slaaasae ,ua' Characterised lara, it's open ag auss sas ., with a shadow that
 a ,sa sa' his life. He had grown