The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1910-08-18

Inc clothes ! did not consider likely
to he of much value. but the paper, IL
1t was in the mothers handwriting,
which was probable. might be Of great
Importance. ! showed Hardy the pa
per had found in the bottle. He sue-
gesfed that go ~ Guilford and make
the search. but ! insisted on his going
win me. offering to pay his expenses.
he accepted my proposition. and we
set off together. leaving the child with
his foster mother.
We arrived ut Guilford in the AFTER
noon and. taking cab. told the driver
to take us to the Carr place. 1t was
we'll known in the town. and we had
no difficulty in finding it. 1t was-or,
rather. had been-a fine house, sur
rounded by large grounds. But It had
not been occupied for some years and
was In a dilapidated condition. The
house was shut up. and there was no
caretaker. We left the cab at the
gate and walked to the summer house,
1t was. rather. an inclosed cottage.
Having examined the floor and deter
mined what tools were necessary.
Hardy went for them. and when he
returned we pried up several boards
In the corner designated. We found q
lacquered glove box. in which were
several papers. One was addressed to
MY Darling Son" and signed "Your
unhappy mother. Julia Carr Garrett"
The substance of the paper was this:
Myron Blake Carr at the time of
the opening of the narrative was q
widower with an only child. Julia.
When she was seventeen years old
she attended finishing school. near
which was mans college. One Of
the students of the college, Hector
Garrett. met her. The two were pleas
ed with each other. and there were
frequent meetings. One afternoon they
met clandestinely for ride. During
the drive Hector dared the girl to go
with him to Il minister and be married.
Yielding to an impulse of high
strung nature. she assented She was
no sooner married than. realizing what
she had done. she was filled with re.
gret. She dared not tell her father.
Had she done so this story would not
have been written. When she met
her husband again he suggested that
they wait till after he had been grad
uated. when they would both acknowl
edge the marriage. Thus two months
passed. Commencement arrived, anc
they went home. both keeping their
secret.
One day news came to Julia that
her husband had been thrown from a
horse and killed. This deprived her
of her husbands guidance. and she
was obliged to make her own deci-
sions She acted as any young girl
might have done who was afraid of
her father. She continued to keep her
secret. Learning that she was to be-
come mother. she secured permission
from him to go away for a time. os-
tensibly on visit to a friend Where
she went the paper did not state, but
it told how negro woman had left
the child. a boy. with the name his
mother had given him pinned to his
clothing. at a foundlings' home
Julia Garrett returned to her father.
who was still ignorant of her marriage
or the birth of her child. The burden
she bore broke down her health, and
her father resolved to take her with
him on Il trip around the world The
young widows health was not improv-
ed by the journey. She continued to
lose ground. and when on the other
side of the globe she died. Before her
death she must have told her father
of her marriage. that there had been
an heir born to his property and that
she had hidden the paper. This hiding
of the document took place before she
went abroad.
l compared the handwriting with
that which had been attached to the
foundling's clothes. They were iden-
teal. Both were written in a peculiar
fashion. all the letters being made
with sharp angles.
The other papers in the box were
certificate Of marriage between Hec-
tor Garrett and Julia Carr; also q GER
ti6cate Of the birth Of their son Hec-
tor. signed by the physician in attend
ance.
l told Hardy that there was ample
evidence to place his foster son in the
possession of such property as had
been left by the shipwrecked Myron
Carr. There could not likely be a will
unless Carr had mailed one from a
foreign port before starting on his last
water journey. But since the boy was
the only child Of Carr's only child he
would inherit the property as the only
direct heir.
Not wishing to act alone in a matter
in which ! had no legal right to act at
all. persuaded Hardy to go with me
to deposit the papers we had found
with the proper officer of the inner
itance court, and l hired an attorney
to attend to the minor interests. The
property was about 100000. The
judge after hearing my story offered