The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-12

The last claim OF an interest in It had
been been nr;s received from the National and
pIGylnSiai sdIojfnrs Obj bank The same firm OF
were the vendors OF the policy at the
recent auction) a release of any claim
and a few days later the premium then
itors "on behalf of their client Mr.. John
smith late Of Abingdon Villas" who
now notified the insurance company that
all liens upon the policy were discharged
and that he had again obtained possession
OF the policy and the entire interest
therein. The company acknowledged the
receipt OF the premium and the notifica-
Sir John Kynnersley. having thus
adopted the name and identity OF John
Smith. then went 10 little trouble to
Smith A few hours scrutiny of the gov
ernments marriage statistics in Somerset
house, and few clever guesses. salts
fled Sir John that the policy had been
taken out upon marriage. and that Mrs.
smith had died some six months later.
Mr.. John Smith. Sir John calculated,
must by now be about 81, and little
further search produced his birth GER
tiflcate, as also that OF Younger brother
Thomas. Thomas apparently had married
at an early age, and begottcn a son
astray from lack OF careful forethoueht,
He had been lucky in identifying the
members of the family; and he had
late OF Abingdon Villas. had originally
hailed from a small village III Devonshire
where his brothers birth and marriage
had also occurred, as also the birth OF
The nephew Harry
The baronet's next step was TO visit
that little village in bevonshire.
couple of days at the waysidc inn-the
considerably helped matters. Learning
that John had got job In London, and
was reported TO have made money and
that Tom and the infant Henry had emi-
grated TO America, Sir John at once as
sunled the role OF the quondam infant
and announced that he was Henry
he knew his people had come from the
village, and that he had come there TO
see If any Of the family were left. To
his great relief he found none I'm the
village. nor had any OF the old habitues
of the place ever heard that John and
Thomas Smith had any relatives He
expected to ascertain, and announcing
that before he went back 40 America
he must look up his Uncle John in Lon
don. he shook the dust of the village off
his shoes and set out upon the journey
TO town and the next step In his scheme.
He took out accident policies for vari-
3us ,,Gs,s sums n from from 95ooO TO GIo'ooo. with
name OF John Smith from quiet but
respectable lodgings. which as an elderly
man he was then occupying in Kentish
Town lie had chosen "a garrulous land
lady, and on several occasions referred
TO his favorite nephew. Henry. now in
the United States: to the little village in
Devonshire whence he hailed. and TO his
brief and tragic married life in Abingdon
Villas.
You know Abingdon Villas In Kcnsing
ton: Mrs. Clarke. ! suppose
''Why, surely; i was cook for nearly
a year in the next street-Scarsdale VII
las"
And then John Smith prosed away
about the little village in Devonshire TIL
Mrs. Clarke felt she knew all there was
10 know about the place.
"Ah, well. Mrs. Clarke" he said, as.
even her garrulous patience exhausted
she picked up the tea tray to carry it
out lone likes talking about the old
place. I've neither wife nor chick nor
child Of my own. Still when I go there
will be a nice little nest-egg for my
nephew Henry 10 come into.