El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-02
The Diary Of A Bachelor
His vain Effort to Find Missing
Manette and the worry
It Gives Him
by Max

TOV. 1s-When child OF extreme
NJ poverty is lost. there is every
= reason for believing that child
viii be found and quickly returned.
But let a child bearing In attire and
manner every mark Of wealth and in
diligence stray from the guardianship
of those who love IL and IL becomes
mark for every avaricious eye.
When I learned that Manette was
missing that was my first fear. On in
Vulnerable times there had been pic
lures Of her in the papers, always IN
der the aIluring title Of -Heiress to
Millions"
1t was not because she was unknown
that she was not brought home. It
was because she vas known. And act
ing on that theory I engaged the best
detectives TO be had.
They dragged the lakes in the parks,
but / knew what the result would be
before they dragged them I did not
wait the result OF their search with
anxious heart. "She is not there"
said. She is alive and in the custody
Of someone who is holding her for a
ransom"
As the days wore on cannot speak
Of the intOlerabls nights-this grew to
be the accepted theory.
Harassed, distressed and tortured to
the limit Of endurance, / could neither
eat nor sleep. Day and night walked
the street, following I'D some idle clue
a victim of false hope, and returning
home with the prayer that perhaps. at
last, word had been received in my alb
sence. And always the same answer
I received 1nnumera bic letters; some
kindly sympatnetic, but more that Of
fered suggestions and advice that no
sane man could accept.
If It had not been for the SpeDcers,
Diary I think I'd have gone mad. They
cOmfOrted me with encOurag cement when
there wasn't a hope left Every NOM
ing brought to them new clue, an
other hope, another chance If for a
moment they lost hope, they never let
me see it.
Tomorrow became the only mcen-
tive I had for living. Tomorrow
would surely bring some word from the
child's abductor Tomorrow" was the
doubtedly have better things to report.
took heart from the unfailing courage
OF the Spencers, and learned from them
the power, the hope, the full meaning
of that word which wise men declare
only the fool recognizes.
TOmpkins who had never been known
in his long service with me to be out
Of call before, would report to me every
morning and I saw no more of him till
next day. I heard that he was spending
his days and nights in the tenement
districts where he frequented every
disreputable resort, and visited
every howell, in the hope OF learning by
some word or sign Of some one who
knew where the child was concealed
Richards alone remained at home. I
had given an order that under no cir
cumstances must she leave the house
and though inaction was irksome and
the hardest task Of all, she made no
complaint She made ready every
preparation for every possible emer-
known in which the child could be
brought home that would not have
found Richards equipped to meet II.
The poor woman felt that she was
to blame, and in the two weeks that
passed she became Just shadow OF
her former CHEEKY wholesome self.
mo word tonight. Richards"
would say. but IL cant last much
longer. We viii surely hear tomor-
Nov. 15-In my distress about
Manette, Diary. 7 have forgotten TO
tell you of a little note that has never
left me since it came;
Have courage, Max The child viii
surely be found 1 cannot let you come
to me or write to me. It is best not.
But wanted you to know that I love
you. and that 1 am doing all I can in
q humble way to help find Manette---
Margaret"
Plenty of Publicity.
Nov. 16.-When Manette's picture ap-
peared in certain enterprising papers
in connection with the story of that in
was indignant But I have realized
since that the publicity is the best aid
/ could have had
Space writers. reports, artists. idle
men with kodaKs and men who make
living by the camera seem to have
made a special subject of the child,
actuated by her rare beauty and the
prominence my money gave her and
new picture Of her appears in some
paper every day.
With such publicity making her face
and figure so familiar it viii be i'm
possible for her abductors to get her
out OF town