The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-18

/ SCAR OH the lell tillSu, Ill shape SOIIlelUluS
| like an anchor. And two toes of his left
| foot had been amputated."
ut was he, my-Mr. Herbert" said
Davidson
1.-The British consul has the affidavits
| of myself and Mr.. Simmons, the man
| ager Of the bank, containing full descrip-
lions of the remains Mr.. tombstone, the
consul. has also made a statement
describing all the peculiarities. 1 thought
| 1t might be useful in identifying the
man.
| provingly.
Young Herbert had been walking up
and down my office nervously, as If unde
cided what to do. He halted suddenly
and asked: Gould we see his grave?"
81 shall be glad to show you. Do you
| wish to go now?"
eff we are not interfering with any
plans of yours"
Not at ALL 1 assured him.
/ drove them to the Foreigners GENE
teryNan showed them Jacks grave.
words: Here Lies Jack. an English
| man. Died June 16, 1893. I had to put
something on his tombstone iIi.order to
comply with some absurd municipal
ordinance or cemetery regulation. Also.
as 1 had considerable money belonging
| to the dead man, L had seen no harm in
planting some white rose bushes about
his grave.
The Englishmen, with uncovered heads,
stared silently at the little marble slab.
After a long pause Herbert muttered:
IF he had not been SO stubborn! And
| | heard Davidson say: "He always was
a proud and headstrong man. And to
| think that he He caught himself
| and broke off sharply.
We drove back to the city. and then
| took the men over to the British consul.
| He sent for Simmons and we again went
| over the whole story. MIR. tombstone
gave our sworn statements to Mr.. Dav-
idson. We answered a few questions, the
| relevancy of which / failed to perceive.
| and we endeavored to trace Jacks
| previous life. But we were unable to
discover on what steamship it was that
! he had arrived at Panama The clerk
at the cable office told us he thought he
| remembered having heard the dead man
say something about Peru, and had con-
cluded from that that he had arrived
from the South Pacific. The police could
give us no help.
The Englishmen did not volunteer any
reformation to us about the dead man,
and We naturally could snot ask them,
though l must confess that at various
times 1 limited, very delicately, but unsuc-
cessfully.
They made all the necessary arrange
ments for taking the body to England
When I spoke about the 400 and Nodd
pounds 1 had left of the 500 Simmons had
given me and asked what l should do
with it young Herbert went with me to
the British consulate and told Mr.. John
stone he wished to leave the money with
him to be spent in assisting any impe-
cunious countryman of theirs who NIGH.
need help. They then returned to Eng
land direct by the Royal Mail steamship
from Colon, taking the body with them.
after having thanked me very earnestly
for what I had done for Jack"
Simmons was subscriber to Truth. the
Graphic, the Illustrated News and other
London weeklies. while Mr.. tombstone
regularly received the Times so that we
had a complete file of the London pa
pers. but in none could We ever find the
slightest reference to any case which
had the remotest resemblance to Jacks
no notice of any remains being received
In England.
l was not satisfied and wrote to a
friend to ascertain which Burlington
was a member of the Marlborough and
if he had brother who had disap-
peared.' His reply was disappointing.
There was the Earl of Burlington, Brit
ish ambassador to Portugal; the Hon.
George John Victor Ethrington second
son of the earl, attached to the legation
at Pel1in; Col Lionel Burlington. " =,
a retired army officer; Sir Arthur Eth
rington baronet. with a fine country
place in Hampshire, best known for a
handsome wife and a couple Of winning
horses. They were all respectable, and
as far as could be learned none was
| closely related to any ducal family in
the United Kingdom. Only Col
Ethrington was a regular habitue of the
| club And he was an only SON and a
| confirmed bachelor
| And that is all I ever learned of the
| dead vagabond. Who he was l do not
| know And as to his whilom position in
| life or the causes that drove him to a
| tramp's life or the meaning of the nys-
| tifying message, why, any ones guess 1s
! as good as mine-or as poor.