Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-28

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/ SCOTT BOVINE, 400 Pearl Street, New York
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Quincy, and under this name? Why
have you not answered my advertise
ments in the Herald?" And he sank
into chair on the other side Of the
! little table,
| The revulsion of feeling was so great
at his double discovery that he came
nearer being unnamed than ever be-
| fore in his life.
| "How did YOU come by this card!"
asked Mademoiselle Archimbault in
| broken voice. when you have ex-
| planned. will answer your questions"
| Quincy took the card from her hand
and glanced at it. What big blum
der ! made and yet what fortunate
one" cried he for he now saw that
he had sent in Lord Hastings card
hearing the London address. Lord
continued, He was a, guest at my
fathers cottage at Nahant last sum-
mer. He came to America and spent
He loves YOU devotedly, and made me
promise that if I ever found you I
would cable at once to the address on
| that card. and he said he would come
to America on the next steamer. OF
course when made that promise did
not know that Indy Putnam and &C.
leste Archimbault were one and the
same person"
i
Sawyer, you will not send him any
word. Give me your solemn promise
you will not. | cannot marry him.
/ You know cannot. There is no Lin
dY Putnam, and Celeste Archimbault
has no right to the name she bears"
4 Did you come to New York when
ised you would?" incurred Quincy.
No, ! did not, Mr.. SAWYER. said
she. Forgive me, but I .csilld not. 1
was distracted, almost heartbrolSen
when reacheS Boston the day she
died. She had robbed me of all hope
of evafr.ffinding my relatives, and but
! for my hatred of her 1 believe would
Z have had brain fever. One thing
i could not do, would not do. would
not remain in America / was rich, 1
row and my hatred l did not go to a
hotel, for did not wish any one to
find me- What good could 1t do? I
/ looked in the Transcript and found a
boarding place. There / met Mdme.
Archimbault. widow, French Cana
dian lady who had come to Boston in
4 search OF niece who had left her
4 home in Canada some five years be-
l ho,, ho1
all the money she had in her unavail-
ing search for her relative, and she
told me, with tears in her eyes and
expressive French gestures. that she
would have to sell her jewelry to pay
her board. as she had no way of max
ing living in a foreign land Then
I told her part of my story. She was
sure her niece was de- and so
asked her to be my mother. to let me
take her name and be known as her
daughter. told her was rich and
that | would care for her as long as
our compact was kept and the real
truth not known. My visit to Nice
and my meeting with Algernon Hast
ings. ne has no doubt told you. did
not know he was a lord, but l suspect
ed it. SO much the more reason why
liz oaouit lioI IieliA y q IieihSlooo Wall /,
a poor girl with no father or mother
and all hope lost OF ever finding them.
1 came back to America with Mdme.
Archimbault, covering my tracks by
cross Journeys and waits which he
could not anticipate. We landed in
Boston.
u found your names IN the quincy
House register. remarked Quincy.
Il don't think | could escape from
A you as easily as did from him., she
said, the first faint sign OF smile
showing ltself upon her race. Went
to my bankers IN Boston and told them
that | mad been adopted by a wealthy
F,rench lady named Arch1mballlt IN
formed them that we We're gong to re
turn TO france at once Ihey made up
my account, and | found was worth
nearly Sl4OOOo. I-took my fortune in
NEW York drafts, explaining that mad
anne wished to visit relatives in New
YORK, and that we should sail for
france from that port. did this so
my bankers could not disclose my
whereabouts to any one. We came