The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-18
RuRALv1LLE. O.. Oct. 4.


know with what JOY write these words
L feel that l am once more restored to life,
and know that l can never repay you
and Cochrane for your brave fight
against public opinion and for the per-
sistent search that has finally resulted in
my discovery In all probability after
the lapse of years / would have fully
recovered my memory, but | am none
the less grateful that you, my dear cid
fellow, pushed the search, and that
Cochrane found me and brought me to
life. "
Rest assured it shall be my aim to see
that you and Anna are well repaid for
the great anxiety and trouble | have
caused you. Most of all, regret the
imputations that have been cast or your
character, but now that l have been
discovered" they will vanish like
magic and you will hear these who were
foremost in directing suspicion against
you loudly declaring that they knew all
the time would eventually be found.
Cochrane has left me one thing to tell
you, and only one. In my dream at
Kreeger's saw tho face of girl, sew.
eral years younger than l, who attended
the village school with me here 20 years
ago. | saw her as little schoolgirl,
| bright, pretty and interesting, and in
| thinking it over l remembered that as
boy IA or / years old l had hoped some
time to marry her 1t was this memory
that changed me from an unpleasant
cynic and induced me to make il posi-
BILE for you and Anna to marry. Ii
brought me to a realization of my self
ishness. l had known for some time
that you loved each other, and when
recalled how shabbily l had treated you
1 was heartily ashamed of myself.
| But it is all right now, John. You
are happily married, and well, when
l came here nearly recovered from my
| accident 1 found the same girl, now
| grown into mature womanhood-ah hand
some, intelligent, lovable woman, who
has travelled extensively and is possessed
of many accomplishments. She spends
a certain portion of each year at her old
home in this place think she took
pity on my condition, for she has not
been Indifferent to the little attentions
l have found time to pay her. | was not
very sure of my ground with strange
mystery hanging over my life. No one
knew, nor did | know myself, what had
happened during the vanished years. 1t
might be that l had wife and children
somewhere, and did not know that
had the right to even think of my old
schoolmate as lover.
Today after dinner called upon her
and told the whole story. | know
made a botch of one part of it, but she
understood me, and that is all that is
necessary. We are to be married three
weeks from today at her home in Gin
cinnati.
Now, dear John, want you to shut
up the Office at once and with your wife
come here for avisit. You will both en-
joy this delightful spot and the beauti-
full weather. | cannot be contentod till
you are here with me, and You must
certainly stay till after the wedding.
Cochrane has promised to be my erooms
man. He has little affair of the same
nature ON his own hands. 1t seems he
has been engaged about five years, wait
ing all the time till he should be able e.
support a wife. The reward you offered
i for my discovery, and which he has
more than earned, will enable him to
venture the marriage. AS We return
from Cincinnati we are to accompany
Cochrane to his home and be present at
his wedding.
Now, my dear old fellow, let nothing
stand i'll your way. Just lock the Office
and leave affairs to take care of them
selves. No doubt you have the business
all in such good shape that no interests
will suffer by five or six weeks absence.
Write us what day you will start, and
Cochrane and will meet you in Pitts
burg.
With love to Anna and goodby till
see you again, | will close. Yours as
ever, CHARLES POWELL
The firm of Powell, Kendall & Coch-
rane is as we'll known as any in the city
of New York. 1t has reputation for
honorable dealing with all men, for it
has never yet been concerned i'll a shady
transaction and confines its operations
strictly to those lines of business that
are above suspicion. Its members have
the fullest trust and confidence in each
other, and since their partnership rela-
tions began, now about eight years ago
their friendships have ripened and be-
come stronger with each day.
Every autumn there is a migration to
quiet little Ohio town just outside
the Muskingum valley. and there for
several weeks the three inseparables and
their wives haunt the woods and
streams, wander through meadows and
pastures and take delightful drives
along the pleasant highways. Around
the big, old fashioned homestead, racing
up and down the we'll trimmed lawn
and playing hide and seek among the
shrubbery, filing all the place with
their laughter and sunshine, is troop
Of happy children, on whom the eyes Of
three fcnd mothers rest with growing
pride
THE END.