Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-10

and nalt your CDaHCeb uAS SOhN'
"And l am wanted at home,
added wondering who had sent the cable dis
patch from New York. "Just as we have a
good chance to find Maldrake, | must quit
the search"
Even il we should find Maldral>e, l am
afraid you would not be able to prove your
identity with the child that was reported to
have been lost" said Maddy in the most
discouraging tones.
But | was not quite satisfied in regard to
the dispatch | could think Of no one who
would have been likely to send the message.
Mrs Castleton, the housekeeper, seemed to
be the only one who would send me the mes
sage had written her letter while l was
in London. asking her how my father was but
she could not yet have received it. Until that
reached her she could not even know that l
was in Europe.
''Maddy this dispatch is a humbug! L eX-
claimed after | had considered the matter for
a few seconds. The message never came from
New York and in my opinion Milton Brooks
is alive and rs well, at least, as when we
sailed"
"What makes you think SO, Gay?" asked
the skipper, looking earnestly at me-, The
death OF the man you have supposed was your
father is very serious matter at this par
ticular time
tNo uOuut vi bhhtJ DuO hS 10 NV N~ON' N"S
is trick of the conspirators to send me
back to New York, and Palingrove is at the
bottom of it," replied, warmly.
Il hope you are right
Mrs. Castleton is the only person in the
house with my father, and she does not even
know that | am in Europe"
Good! That is hitting the nail on the
head. But the arrival of the Sleeper was in
the London papers, or in one of them, ar
gued Maddy.
''But we have been in Europe only ten or
eleven days, and that paper has not got to
New York yet. No one would take the trou
BILE to cable the arrival of the yacht"
''No one but myself; | telegraphed to my
father, and added, Don't tell" said Maddy
Milton Brooks was better than he had
been for years when | left the house in Riv
ington street. and more likely to live year
or two than at any time since he landed in
the city"
But he may have died for all that. We
can easily find out about this matter. | will
telegraph our bankers to send the dispatch,
or inform us who gave it TO them"
In half an hour we had done this; but we
received no answer that night We were ex-
ceedingly worried and perplexed about it;
but the more we thought of the news the
better we were satisfied that it was false.
We had gone to bed the night before very
early, and we were up at six o'clock in the
morning, taking a stroll about the city. At
ten o'clock, while we were at breakfast, a
reply to our inquiry came Ii was as follows:
"Have no dispatch; requested to send news
by gentleman of forty-fve, who left his ad-
dress as John White, No. 8 Margaret street,
Cavendish Square Looking him up"
Il told you SOL" 1 exclaimed, triumphantly.
''The dispatch is a fraud The report will
come that John White cannot be found"
That is the look of the thing at present"
agreed Moddy. II think we may as well at
tend to our business, which is to look up NAL
drake. He preached at the English Church,
No. 10 Avenue Marbeuf OF course he is not
the regular clergyman, or he would not have
been announced he was'
The skipper took his Bradshaw from his
satche and proceeded to look for the church
mentioned. He soon found that the Rev. G.
Gardiner the incumbent of the church,
and the first business in order was to find
him. We called a cab at the hotel and went
to Galignans, where we readily found the
address of the clergyman. We drove to his
house, and were so fortunate as to find him at
home
AS we entered the house a gentleman unmis-
takably English passed US in the hall. He
was the very image of Mr.. Pickwick, as pre-
scented in the illustrations of Dickens works.
some Of which had read on the passage from
New York was sure | should know him
again if saw him among ten thousand
The clergy man received us very politely
One OF the first things Maddy did was to make
donation of ten pounds to the fund of the
church in which the reverend gentleman off.
oiated for we had already learned that such
gifts were welcomed by ministers with float