Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-27

UhS Cl0y was aDOuC all Sne knew bout it, and her first necessity was to find means of livelihood. Being brave and strong and handy with her hands. this did not prove so serious mat ter as might have been expected, and in few months she was able to give some time to the hopeless task of looking for one man in a great city. Of course, she was ignorant and sim- pie, and neglected the commonest methods to accomplish her end, but she made up for this in the single. sublime confidence in its ultimate success. Another two years passed before she learned that Herbert Scanlan had left the city not long after she came to it, on a mission abroad which was likely to keep him a permanent resident in Ger many. It took her another two years to find a way to get abroad, which she did as a servant on an ocean liner. In the meantime she had learned to speak German, realizing that it would be necessary in tracing him. She also had learned many things of the world and mastered much useful knowledge as to means to get along by the labor of her hands and head. She was no longer the innocent, ig- norant wild flower she was when Scanlan wooed and won-and forgot her.
 Soon after arriving in Berlin she learned that Scan1an had failed in health a year or more since and sought the warmth of Italy to recu- perate. To Italy forsooth went Hell en, and there she found it a much more difficult task, as he had gone for health, not business, and left no trace. Also she found it more seri- ous matter to live. At last she struck the trail again. This time it led to the Transvaal
 In the meantime life had had it's ups and down with Scanlan. Return ing to the city after his sojourn on the farm, he had plunged again into business and met with the same marked success he had always had. He had formed a strong alliance and went abroad to take care of that end of the business. Tn Germany he had met and married reigning beauty, who squandered his fortune and end ed by eloping with an Italian count. Broken in fortune and health, he had gone to Italy to recuperate, and from there to the Transvaal, lured by tho tales of great fortunes being acquired there-and, as we'll, by the prospect of hiding himself and his shame from the world. In South Africa for the first time in his life he found him. self unable to make a Ego" of it, and ran nearly to extremities. He took to gambling and to drinking and sank distinctly in the scale. Arousing him. self from sodden life after some months, he resolved to make one last try of it, and sailed for Australia to make a new start in a new land. The opportunity he sought he did not find, and he took sick of a malignant fever. When he came too, after weeks of illness in charity hospital in Melbourne, he found himself hope lessly shattered and absolutely pen. niless-and without ambition to move step. As a full realization of his condition came to him he groaned aloud. A letter telling him of the
  solace to him. The whole of his life. so full of high possibilities in tn. morning and now so, hopelessly wrecked at high noontide, passed be- fore his mind, and he prayed passion. ately for death.
 "Oh, God, end this useless life" he groaned, before suicide is added to my other crimes and failures.'
 A figure darkened the door. A tall young woman with grave but strange 1y familiar face stood at the foot ot his bed. The next moment she leaped forward and sank on her knees be- side the bed, and he found himself clasped tightly in her strong arms.
 Herbert" she whispered, 'sI have found you at last!" and then he knew it was the little wild flower of the prairie farm, and strange peace and quiet entered his soul.
 Simply she told him of her long quest, and he saw the true gold he had spurned. With a groan, he turned from her.
 q am not fit to touch the hem of your garment" he said, and then he told her all of his story, abating not a jot, extenuating nothing. When he was through, she said, simply:
 s'What does it all matter? I love you, and have found you!''
 Two weeks later Herbert Scanlan walked out of the hospital, leaning somewhat upon the arm of Helen, but strong in the resolution to re- gain his hold on life and success, not so much for his own sake as for hers.