The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-18

place still. Emily Is paler than ever
 and her face has an anxious express
 sion. She remembers that voice she
 boat, and every time the door opens
 she starts and trembles and a flush
 overspreads her face The houssmaid
 brings Gertrude letter. The hand ; writing of the address is wholly strange. She breaks the seal and reads:
 The letter begins: My Darling Ger trude-my much beloved child" She
 reads on and on In state of wonder and excitement, and then hastens to
 the summer house at the foot of the garden where the writer of the letter
 says he Is awaiting her. It Is into the arms of her own, her long lost, father that she falls-Mr. Phillips, as she had known him, but In reality Philip Armory. The letter had told her the story of his life and revealed the se- cret of her birth. Philip Armory. was
 the stepson of MT, Graham's second wife. When Philip and his mother had come to live in the home of MT. Ora
 ham. Emily, a young and beautiful girl, was there. No ties of blood connected them and Philip and Emily had fallen in love. Philip had been placed by his stepfather in his counting house. false charge of forgery-a charge af- terward disproved-had been trumped up against the youth by jealous clerks. MT. Graham impulsive as we'll as stern, had driven Philip from his house and forbade Emily to think of him mc1e. But Phillips had entered the house sur reptitously and sought an interview with Emily. The girl had tainted and then had occurred that fatal accident. Seizing one from number of bottles which stood upon a nearby table, Philip had dashed l into her face not the Florida water which l he had reached for. but a strong acid,
 and Emily was blinded forever
 Flying from the house he had again re- turned, only. to be told that Emily hated l him and his very name. Then he had I become a wander upon the face or the
 earth He had shipped in vessel bound | for Rio de Janeiro. Sailing with the cap | tain on that voyage was the captains ba,f-orphaned daughter Just before the
 ship reached Rio Captain Grey died and was buried at sea The captain had taken | and had him often in the cabin, where Philip had made the acquaintance of the captains daughter. Lucy. She was a sweet and winning girl, and when the captain died in that far-off region she was without protection. Also she had learned to love Philip Amory. Philip, al- though not feeling for Lucy the same sentiments which he entertained for Elm ily, felt that he could be happy with her for nfe-partner And then she was so lonely, so unprotected!
 So Lucy and Philip were married in Rio, and Philip obtained a situation there with a mercantile house. He prospered and was enabled to support his wife and the daughter which was born to them Gertrude-in comfort. While Gerty was still baby Phillip was sent by his em- ployers to a city up the coast As epi- demic of yellow fever broke out in the city Phillip caught the disease was taken to a hospital and was reported dead. The fever also broke out in Rio.
 An old sailor who had left the ship with Philip at Rio-Beii Grant by name-a man who had been driven to sea by his shrewish wife, thinking that Mir. Amory was dead, took Mrs Amory and Ger trude back to the States and placed them
 in the care of his wife, Nan-the same woman with whom we first found Ger trude. Mrs. Amory had died; Nan had stolen the scanty fortune of which she had been possessed. and Ben had gone to sea again. pfH
 When Philip had recovered from the fever and returned to Rio he could get no word of his wife and child. The city was stricken by the dread disease of