The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1907-08-30
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even narrated are followed MS closely
to the original happenings as they can
lie without pointing to the actual oc
currence.
Matthew Tuttlc was good man. n
good father ana n good husband. Un
was comfortably off I'm this worlds
goods. happy and contented. This
statcmci is made with the reservo.
tion that so Mr. Tuttle appeared. That
he had r1eans is certain. That he was
contented aud happy is assumed be-
cause no showed no sign to the con
trary.
one AFTERNOON after business hours
Mr. Iuttle did not come home aus usual
Ills VIE waited dinner an hour: o. 10
O'Clock came, and still he did not come.
AIRS. TuCtie supposed he had been nm
avoidably detained, but why had hc
not teiephoned as usual? AT IL o'clocl,
she called up the police Headquarters
requesting that they send to certain
places where her husband might possi-
bly, be found. These places wore vis.
lted, but Mr.. Tuttle was not ut any of
them.
The next morning the city was ran
suckcu Tor the missing man-that is.
ai'er the usual hour for his appear
cn@e at his Office. That hour came
ana the next, and there were no signs
"f MI Tuttle. The day passed with
OUT TIC slightest trace OF him. His
Wlie soon fell into condition border.
ihS on nervous proStlation.
| Weeks, months, years passed and MIR.
| Iuttlc Was not heard from. The police
| gave him up, considering his case ono
OF the many in which the subject j.
murdered ana the body successCully
got away with. This they at last toll
| MIS-. lutilc, and as soon as she became
conNinccl of ii herself, accepting the
| incVitablH she became resigned and
regaincl her health. Her husbands
estate VAS administered, and widow
and children were found To have in
heuted such an income as they noe led
rive years after Mr.. Trttle'S disnp.
pcarancc man Of forlom micn went
up to the Tuttles' front door nul RAM
the bell. OF the servant who answered
the summons he asked If Mrs. futile
lived there. He was informed that she
owned the house, but had rented il
and gone t. Europe with her children.
The man turned away.
1t was n Sunday morning. and he
strollcd aimlessly for awhile tiu pass,
Ing church. he entered 1t and took
| n back seat.
WHAT'S that handsome marble be.
| side the chnnccl?' he asked in n whis.
per of orc next him.
That's the futile font" was the rc
| ply. 1t was placed there In memory
of Matthew Iuttlc, who disappeared
and never was heard from"
| The 70 'lorn man made no rculv anl
| when the congregation was dismissed
went out with the others and stood on
the church steps as If not Knowing
where To 20. Presently he went down
into the street ana boarded Il trolley
car. After half an hours ride he got
out ut cemetery and, entering the
gate, followed walk till he came to
n lot whercon was handsome monu-
ment. He read. the inscription, I'm
Memory of Matthew Tuttlc." The man
looked at the other graves IN the lot
taking In each separately, then went
away.
One me rning in Geneva. Switzerland.
where Mrs. Tuttle had gone To put her
children at school. she was walking
over the bridge leading To an island
In the Rhone, now and then stopping
TO lean ever the stone guard and l3ol;
into the crystal waters After one of
these pnuSes she raised her head To
proceed. Suddenly she clutchcd at the
s.on1 beside her ana was sinking down
when Il man caught her In his arms.
IT was her husband
Snnp tinDn t,1ss.tt lnf,r, ,i,, n.t,,,
islcd woman could speak. ana then
the idea that filed her brain was that
she had been deserted
"Whcrc have YOU becnf" she asked.
drawing away.
II remember" he said. placing his
hand on his forehead. "a long while
ago boarding train. Where / was
going | don't know After that re
memb"r2l nothing till three weeks
ago, when I Suddenly seemed TO come
TO myself. was in Philadelphia.
took train for home and found YOU
had come over here. had no trouble
In identifying mySclf ana Ictting
money to follow YOU. ! have Just ar,
rived. at your apartments they told
me you walked here mornings while
the children are at school"
The wife looked nt her husband for
confirmation anal saw It in his forlorn.
half dazed expire ssion. Then. though
not entirely unobscrvcl. she threw her
arms about him. At that moment
clock near Ey struck II. ana soon
lfter three children came running to
The bridge. 4 man none OF them re-
! mcmbcrco who stood by their mother
| tDOk them one after nnnthnr II, liy
arms and kissed them. Then the re-
united family went away.
Later, when tho children's school
term was finished. the family went in
to the Alps for the summer. Iii the
autumn Mrs n'utiIn's health had been
restored ly the invigoruting mountain
air, and they MI sailed for America.
h"t before reaching home the inscrip-
u ""on removed from the Tuttlc
. ~. '.nt. anl the monument In