The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-16
VILLAGE CARPENTER
PROVES TO Be PEER
Babe Abandoned on Stormy bea0ii
Falls Into Good Hands anu
Inherits Fortune.
RECOGNIZED AT WORK
Noble Brother Comes TO Tell PeaS-
ant Artisan That He Has
Title Waiting.
RECOGNIZED AT WORE
ccial Gable to The Tribune.

Special Cable To The Tribune
PARIS, April lj.-An interesting ro-
nance has come 10 light In 81. Grazd"
nee, n nshiug village OF Brittany. a'o
the central figure In 1t Is the boat car
pentcr. young Yves lie Goennee NO"
the vlllugers know that The carpenter y
really NJ le Vlcomte, man of moore
birth, and he has LETT for this city in inc
stylc that BELTS his newly discovered
station.
Old residents OF st. Grazanncc remem-
her the night OF Yves lie Goennec's ar
rival They call it ''the night of the big
storm and It happened twcnty-eis
wears ago The storm brought four
wrecked ships TO ST. Grpzanncc. Inc
lifebOai put out TO sea seven times tna'
night, and brought in thirty seven pas
scngers.
II is a rocky, hostile beach, ana the
wind was so high and the night so DARK
that IL was all the women and the old mer
could do to keep their footing as they
pccred out 10 sea. watching for the me-
boats return
Babe Left on Beach.
II had made It's last journey and the
priest was directing the women 10 roll
the last load OF rescued passengers into
up to the cottages. when Anne Marie
le Coennec, old Yves le GocnncCs wife,
hurryins down 10 her man WITH Il bottle
OF cider brandy which was 10 keep of
bundle on the shingle.
'One OF those foolish girls has dropped
her shawl she mutiered. and she picked
the bundle up. But II was heavier than
Il shawl, though there was shawl round
II; and as old Anne Marie lifted II In
her arms a cry came out OF II. That
bundle was quite dry Therefore 1t had
not come To shore from the sea, either
In the lifeboat or by any other means.
And the prizes, Cto whom the woman went
AT once). remembered that there had
been strange man on the beach earlier
In the evening He had no, recognized
him. which was a strange thing of itself,
for everyone In ST. Grazannec knew ev-
erybody else but in the excitement OF
He stood just here the old priest
said. "He must have left the child
A fortnight afterwards one OF the VII
layers went into ST. Rrleuc. While gos-
stranger who had hired a cart on the
night of the storm and had gone for a
drive in II himself: Little Yves was
adopted by Anne Marie, who had no
children Of her own. Old lie Goennec had
money and sent the boy whom ne loved
Into st. Brieuct where he was educated
better than the other lads OF the village.
When the old people died young Yves
found he had inherited re Goennec's
savings. He did not go to sea as ali the
others in the village did: but made him
Sell village carpenter, Ihen one day the
marvel happened, of which all st. Graz
annec Is talking now and Will be talking
as long as the village lasts gentle
man arrived at st. Grazannec. a beau.
tlfully dressed man OF about forty drove
into the village in motor car and asked
for Yves lie Goennec. He was at work
and looked up at the visitor. The visitor
smiled and grasped his hand
'l am your brother. Yves" said he.
The name OF Yves's father and mother
has not escaped so far.