The Glenwood post., 1907-04-27
SAD AWAKENING
THoueHTLESs SON WILL RE.
TURN TO VACANT HOME.
MOTHER IN PAUPER's GRAVE
He Brings Back a Fortune, But No
WELCOME From Mother viii
Greet Him.

\ Pueblo, Colo.-Ten years ago Abner
Greenwich, a lad of seventeen, disap-
peared mysteriously from his home in
Pueblo. His mother, widow, believed
he had been murdered.
The police of Pueblo and other cities
searched for him but without finding
clew which would lead to the explana-
tion OF The mystery, and in year the
disappearance of Abner Greenwich
was forgotten, for the haunting face
Of the mother was seen no longer at
the police station, seeking news of her
boy. She had died of grief.
Nov comes the temperance OF Abb
ner Greenwich, who, in letter writ
ten from Peru to a boyhood friend,
John McGoveIn, says he is returning
with a fortune of $1,0O0,000 Cleaned
from lhe pestilential swamps of Peru
and the sands of its fever-ridden rivers.
Il am coming home" he says, with
million to make my mothers last
days happy" not knowing that all the
millions in the world could not nave
atoned for one hour of the agony
| which his mother spent in her lonely
search for lssr son.
"She shall have everything that
money can buy, but want my arrival
| to be a surprise to her." Little does
Greenwich know that he will be un-
able with all his wealth to ever buy
| a stone to mark his mothers last rest
| ing place, for she sleeps with the un-
known dead, and that in all the world
| there is no person who will feel
| a mothers Joy at the return of wan
dering son.
OF all these things Abner Green
witch knows nothing. 1t is enough for
him now that he has $l,OOO,OOO, and
| that when as boy reading forbidden
| tales of adventure, he told John NC
| Govern that some day he would disap-
pear and not return until he had ST.
100000 he had meant what he said.
According to the story of Green
witch, he has paid dearly for his wealth.
| The fever Of the tropics has turned MS
hair gray and his face is wrinkled IKE
| that of an old man. Il am afraid he
says, ito see looking glass. Once
saw my face in a pool near my camp,
| and its appearance frightened me, but
| l guess mother will know me, any
how"
Greenwich says that firing OF
school and poorly paid work, he car
ried out his expressed detet
| mination to disappear and not return
until he had $1,000,000.
With the carelessness and cruelty OF
boyhood, he never once thought OF the
| sorrow he would cause his mother, but,
meeting young college graduate from
| Chicago he stealthily left Pueblo, and,
reaching New Orleans, sailed with his
| camBauion on ship bound for Peru
| For the first three years they suffered
| all the privations of hunger, thirst and
fever, and found themselves further
| handicapped by their ignorance OF the
| native language. Then becoming ia
miiar with the country and its Gus
toms. they plunged into the wilderness
| and engaged in the rubber business.
Until my arrival at Lima a month
ago" he says, for seven years | had
| seen no white face, save that of my
I partner.
Now my last dollar of the million
has been made. My partner has like
amount, and month hence We will be
in Colorado, when l shall endeavor to
make amends to mother for my con
duct in leaving as l did"