The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-06-21
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BY NORMAN p. WHITE.
IN A cHAIN OF FATE.

thing as fate. Napoleon said, I win
make circumstances And he did -thai
Is. TIL they became too powerful for
him By the union Of all his enemies"
That may do for Napoleon. but not
for me. That am a resident Of this
city, that ! am the husband Of my
wife, the father Of boy named Alan
and a girl named Lucia and that we
ars all rich Is the result Of not
one incident-that wouldn't be 50 sin.
gulaF-but OF a number OF Incidents
happening IN succession, the absence
Of any one OF which would have made
entirely different surroundings for me.
THE first incident was this: On a
certain day man took up a paper he
bad never seen before and saw an ad.
Of mine. l was a young lawyer. with
no clients. advertised 70 secare the
care Of estates. The man WAS a stran-
ger in town and wished for some one
to be agent for building there See
ing my ad., be came to me. IF he
hadn't seen It wouldn't be talking
with you now. He told me that the
building. one OF scattered estate. be-
longed TO some one he was looking for
and couldn't find. The interview re-
suited 10 his giving me the agency, the
building being a part Of the Pendleton
estate.
"One afternoon, being bored by hav-
Ing nothing to do, / went cut and
Btroiled Into a vftascope show. One Of
the pictures was the arrival OF an ex-
press train at Schenectady, n. I. The
passengers poured out Of the ears, and
Dne. a girl about seventeen years old.
same walking, with a satcheI in her
hand. toward the audience. II seemed
rs II she were going to step right into
the showroom. She had a tiInid look
on her face. such as a girl might have
arriving IA a strange city. She was
looking about her, fearing some Of the
many vehicles passing hither and
thither would run ever her. I wanted
to 60 aud put my arm about her to re-
assure her. Then suddenly she passed
cut Of the picture
There was something In the face
and figure that took hold of me. The
performance lasted half an hour, then
began all over again. I waited till /
had seen my little girl get out OF the
train and run the gantlet Of wagons
and carriages three times. Not only
that, went to the show every day TIL
the picture was taken of. By that
time / was desperately IN love. Odd,
isn't itf
1.-THE next IN the chain OF incidents
was a trip 10 Schenectady on business.
That was two years after falling IN
love with a moving photograph. While
there / went into merchants office
and saw sitting at a table jabbing type
keys with her fingers-whom do you
suppose2 recognized her at once
the original Of my moving pictured
What sent me to that city and that
very counting roomi Fate.
Having found my lore. didn't pro
pose to lose her. I learned her name
Evelyn ACKNOWLEDGMENT her a bet
ter salary than she was receiving to
work for me, and she joined me at
the end OF the month.
you may rest assured made It
pleasant for her, and ! made love to
her in q delicate. gingerly way-she
was very sensitive and reserved-and
won her. But / was still a poor law
yer with TOO small an income 10 marry
on, 80 she stayed on as my typewriter
tIll / would be better fixed financially
That sue might be Of more assistance
to me, / taught her 10 keep my ae-
counts.
zone day the man who gave me the
agency of the building spoke OF came
to town, and / paid him some eollec-
lions. he told me that he had been
unsuccessful in finding the heirs to the
estate, and he rather thought the pro-
vision made IN the viii in case they
were never found would be carried
out. The provision was that at the
expiration Of certain period the prop
erty was to 60 to specified charities
That period would expire in a few
months. asked him If he knew who
the heirs were. He said he knew that
all were dead except the children Of
Eliza Pendleton. At the name Eliza
Pendieton noticed that my assistant
flancee-I mean my Gancee-assistant-
looked up. After the man had gone
she asked nae:
"What was that man saying about
Eliza PendletonT
why do you askY
because that was my mothers
name before she married my father
ut was probable that there we're q
great many Eliza Pendletons, but It
struck me the matter was worth look
ing into. Evelyn told me that she
knew nothing Of her fathers family,
but that her grandfather on her moth
er's side was named Nathan Witridge.
I had her typewrIts letter to the
manager OF the property, giving this
information. He had gone back to
where he lived and didn't get the let
ter till the next day. Then received a !
telegram giving an affirmative reply
and asking why ! wished to know
This began to look peculiar. ] replied
By telegraph that my typewriter was
the granddaughter Of Nathan Witridge
Pendleton. The reply to this was, IL
she can prove it am ready to pay her
$500, 900.
Evelyn Brickworth had no difficult
ty in finding the requisite proof and.
being the only living heir, got the
property. 1t was lucky for me that |
b.d no,,rtod and won her while she