New-York tribune., 1909-09-12

nalTed old lady living BROOKLYN. And here
met with apparently great success Yes, Mrs Car
penter remembered Madame Cartier fairly well. The
madame a slender delicate little woman very
modest, wearing a fluffy little dress. She had not
been much of a success as a teacher of French and
German; but was fond of music.
She a widow, as l understand remarked
Fox.
Such was the impression replied Mrs. Carpe1l-
ter, but she was a very uncommunicative person
and told little of her affairs"
And Roman Catholic" suggested Fox.
Il think not, the answer; in fact, | feel
positive that She a Swiss Presbyterian
And how do you know that
In her room at the college We're two small prints
labeled Wide Awake and Fast Asleep. remember
them distinctly. These pictures given away
about that time premiums to subscribers to The
Christian Union, then edited by Henry Ward
Beecher."
You are right Mrs Carpenter She was prob
ably not Roman Catholic remarked Fox with
growing enthusiasm.
Here was a clue at last he thought the first
tangible thing that might lead him to ultimate
cess Madame earlier was a subscriber to The
Christian Union There must be old substitution
books somewhere. He would get the New York adj
dress of Madame earlier, a definite street and
definite house and from this point he could the
lost woman and solve the mystery. But the old
subscription books had been destroyed and he could
find naught of Madame earlier her New York
address. The mystery was still mystery.
As he walked homeWard that night, dOWnCast and
discouraged, Jimmy Fox planned that the next
ing he would visit the library and search the files OF
The Christian Union 1t seemed hopeless task,
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had advertised IN the paper for situation. And the
day in quiet alcOVe of the big library, with the
files of the dead periodical piled high about him. he
set about his tedious labor. For days he worked
but with not glImmer OF light to throw on the dark
mystery of the NaSsar teacher.
- Is it possible for a human being to disappear in
a hole in the ground thought Fox as he opened the
last file in the library. Here IS woman OF respecta
bilitv and education. who walks out of bank a
bright May morning and from that moment is lost
forever. There should be, must be- some eXplana-
ton.
CHANCE has and always will be a great factor in
~ material things. And it Chance that gave
Jimmy Fox new hope at the close of that second day
in the library He had turned the last page of the
last issue of the last file when chance paragraph
of general news caught his trained eye. In a column
of Events of the Week he read
d" Fifteen lives were lost on Tuesday last by the
wreck of the steamship Lucille, near Marthas Vine
Fox sat erect and rubbed his eyes Strangely
enough Madame Carriers name Lucille He
laughed at the foolish thought of coincidence Then
he glanced at the date OF the paper, Saturday, May
2I 1876
What Tuesday the day OF the disaster was the
seventeenth Madame earlier had paid her last
visit to the banl, Monday, May l6.
Jimmy Fox rushed to the library desk. The
Times for May, 1876 II YOU please. he called
\ moment more he was nerVously turning the
leaves of the newspaper file, seeking account OF
the Lucille disaster. There 1t was, a full column,
telling how the steamship LuClle bound Tor Boston,
had left New York on Monday afternoon, had been
caught in a fog Tuesday morning, May II, OF the
Massachusetts coast and had struck rock and
sank OF two hundred persons on board. all but nj
teen were rescued by life savers from Marthas
Vineyard. But boat had capsized and fifteen had
Fox ran down the list of the lost and then, with
eyes bulging and mouth open, he read these names
Mrs. earlier and her niece, Miss Jeannette Devoe
OF Boston
"Of Boston," echoed Fox. Mrs. earlier was
credited TO Boston undoubtedly by mistake. That
i why her New York acduaintanCes did not recOg