The Caucasian., 1912-03-31

! ask fGr Ny. BFa!Q ana IT GeS oui
/ see if Mr.. Nash is waiting for him OF
| Miss Edith Trowbridge. Tell whas
| you know TO any one of chose NeoVIs
and say yos came from 1amea-that',
me and see what happens"
went 10 Mr. Bsaydons -ffice d
was out Mp NSSa, had Lses tbew and
had gone NiS> Yvo~tridge vSS ene
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o. aVpessxncs, . goMAfsI sSe~<n~S,
mincling With ssnssa-r~i>e &suMEsna Il
character - make - sise Gesaeat i'm
peeSsidn Whk'b xe gave - ess esss
glance
~ sAould aatempa - To sss sssss
h her owD words aBd % Riv~ . ~
turO % Aer n the Sct 6f sstliA9 h .
ehou,d naessly fail. - asNss U@~s sels
tSe eaets a. ! UbtxBHel1 ahem,
Miss TvoWlHidge wsS che a. sGheel
u Leouae6 y Trowbridge. ~h" ~as
snco in q saisIy prosperous wsv ~
business sD .IoAnstowD, ~. He ~sn
Crowned in the gre& don1 % lSS!s
Gis wife anA his two SOM also peri<A
e1-the whole family except Edith.
Who saos then eous yeaes Old She was
sescved froon tho nooJ through . most
extraordinary disVlav o3 hesoisrn ana
endurance by a fourteen ysas-osd bos
named Arthur LynA vhis yonsh also
waa ospha ne6 oy the disaster His
relatives Wese m Bngland. bus he pre-
Hesred to 90 20 Minaea po&s. Mian
vhero he knew some ono Uhe Wovssi
give him WOpb
Euiths sole sUpvavfng sslstive vas
an aunt who Nved On Sterling. which
10 near Minneapolis The JohnstoWn
eeAef committee seAt heP there u
charge % wonas, end Arthur Lynn
made the tourney with then fhs
identity OF the woman ~ lost.
Souns lynn had take. q great faA-
ey % the little eirs and she o. him.
tie often Eent - her auot's house n
Sterling during the NEXT ten yeass, and
chen the two were separated hoy . uery
remarkable occurrence, 90 less than
the elevation ~ ArthHs LsnD 70 ~
Carl os DeHIs,sougA.
1he estate OF Ediths father yielded
DER ii feN hundred dollass, Whicls was
spent upon her education later she
Inherited 4 piatance from hev amt,
4 few days before the i"hnSt"wn
catastrophe Leonard Tsowbridgc ven
to New York and bOernwe>l s..bW of
Julian Edlinger & Co. with which fra
he had had some Previous dealings
He put up as collateral 1or this loan
10000 share~ Of stock IN the yellow
Eagle gold mine of California. which
stock was then quoted around 80
Thus the 10000 shares were worth
about $1,000
BY the terms Of the transaction Ed
linger & Co. were authorized TO sell the
mining shares: if the note was not paid
at maturity. pay it and place the bal
ance TO the account of Trowbridge If
any Of Trowbridges friends knew OF
this transaction or of bis ownership of
q During the four mont hs in which tn
note was maturing there occurred Il
bonanza find" in the Yellow Eagle
mine. The 10000 shares were eventual
ly sold by Edlinger & 60 ct S14
share, They actually obtained $420 .02G
not Originally the transaction may
have been honest. at least in sem
blance. for the account of Leonard
Trowlridge was duly credited with tn.
balance to which it was en-
titled. but subsequently this money
was juggled over int" the personal ac
count of Julian Edlinger
These facts were discovered bv an
aged clerk in Edlinger & Co. S employ
a man named Wilbur Nash He seems |
to have had an old fashioned honesty
for he went to Julian Edlinger and in
quired whether any attempt had ever
been made to find Trowbridge's heirs,
The result was that Edlinger turned
Nash out upon the street not knowing
that the old man had obtained evi |
drnce. legally valuable of the Trow |
bridge transaction
Nash Immediately began IA search for
an heir to the Trowhridge fortune, ac |
Iuated chiefly by motives of common |
honesty hut partly perhaps by resent |
mcnt and The hope of rewar! He |
found Edith Trowbridse in New York.
where she was earning her living as Il |
The discovery was due
more TO accident than good work. for
Nash's Investigations at .Iohnstowp
had revealed only hint that u dauch
Ter of Trowbridge had survived him
In the confusion incident To that an
palling disaster idcntifications we're
necessarily hasty and nobody really
knew whether the little girl sent west
vas actually Trowbridge's daughter.
The only discoverahe witness who
iad known her before and after the
was Arthur Lynn. now
Carl OF Denborough. and be was in In.
liza in the service of his government.
'nt he had kept up struggling cor.
espondence with Edith, and she