Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-04-26
SAD AWAKENING
THouoHrLEss SON WILL RE.
TURN TO VACANT HOME.
MOTHER IN PAuPER's GRAVE
Hs Brings Back Fortune. But No
Welcome From Mother viii
Greet Him.

Pueblo. Colo.-Ten years ago Abner
Greenwich, lad OF seventeen, disap.
peared pysteriously from his home in
Pueblo. His mother. q widow, believed
he had been murdered.
The police OF Pueblo and other cities
searched for him but without finding a
clew which would lead to the explana.
tion OF the mystery. and In u 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.
Now comes the temperance of Ab-
ner Greenwich, who. In "a letter writ
ten from Peru TO a boyhoOd friend,
John McOoycrn, says he is returning
with u fortune of 100000 cleaned
from the pestilentiai swamps Of Peru
aud the sands of It's fcverridden 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 have
atoned for one hour OF the agony
which his mother spent In her lonely
search for her son.
"Shc shall have everything that
money eau buy. but want my arrival
TO be q surprise to her." Little do-s
Greenwich know that he will bc un'
able with all his wealth TO ever buy
a stone to mark his mothers last rest.
ing place, for abe sleeps with the un-
known dead. and TINT In all the world
there Is no person who will feel
n mothers JOY at the return Of wan
dcrins son.
OF all these things Abncr Green
witch knows nothing. II In enough for
him now that he has 81 .00O.0 900. and
that when as boy rcadin. forbidden
tales Of adventure. he told John Nc
Govern that some day he woald disap
pear and not return until he had ST..
00o. 900, he had meant what he said.
According tn the story Of Green
witch. he has paid dearly for his wealth.
The fever u the tropics has turned his
hair gray and his facc In wrinkicd iik.
that of an old man. Il am afraid" he
says. ITO sec n looking glass; Once
saw my face In a pool near my camp.
aud lis appearance frightened me. bu,
I guess mother will know me. any
how
Grccnwiich says that urins OF
school and poorly paid work. he car
ricd out his Expressed dc'"t'
minniion 10 disappear and no, return
until he hal si.ooo.oco.
With the carcicssncss and cruelty Of
oyhood. he never once thought of III.
SORROW he would cause his mother. but.
meeting young college graduate from
Chicago. he sicaithiiy left Pueblo. and.
reaching New Orleans. sailed with his
companion on q ship bound for Peru.
ror the nrzt three years they suffered
ali tho privaiious Of hunger. thirst and
fever, and found themselves further
handicapped by their ignorance Of tho
native language. Then. bccouins "a.
miiiar 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 I had
seen no white face. save that "t my
partner.
-Now my las, dollar Of the million
has been made. Ny partner has like
amount. aud month hence ~c will b.
In Colorado. when ! shall cad~aSor TO
make amends to mcshcr fos my con-
duct in leaving az I did