The daily Alaskan., 1913-05-21
aded Ink
 By RUTH GRAHAM

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 gone out Of her cheek. Che sparkle from her eye. tle smile from her Iips She suId tnat her husband had quarreIed with her and told hcr that tbcir mar |rIuge was DO marriage at alI and 1T she |d.dut believe him to look at her mar. Hagc certificate. She did so and found |aH those parts that should have been |Huud iu with Ink were wanting.
 She wus not only ustoulshcd, but ap. |paIcd. She bad been handed Che cer- |uGcate after the ceremony by the clergyman who bad married her, had l glanced at It aud seen that it had been l filled In. Could it be that her husband ! had stolen the original and left a sub. |siute? It made no difference to her what he had done since be now repu. |dulpd her. Without a word she went 1 bacs to the home she had left, re. snmod her maiden name and lived as l a woman whose lie bad been blighted. l By doing thIs she gave up any chances | that might have existed of proving that she hud been legally married This was doubly unfortunate, for after her return she gave birth to a son, whose l Interests lu lbc matter were identical with hers He grew up under the |uame of Baxter and with a stain rest. Iiug upon him that the boy realized at ! Ian early age.
 ! From bis birth his grandfather the fisherman. John Baxter for whom he was named. took the little chap into ! his heart and resolved to do all in his |Dower to give hlm an education So ! tur old man worked hard and saved much of what he earned and Che lad was sent to school He developed taste for the sciences. and it was de- tormuod Go send him to the scientific |denartmont Of a university.
 When he came home after being graduated. while talking with his mother abnut his and her future she thought Il best Go tell him the story or her marriage, which was on her ! |nnrt rcaI. though she believed lt to be |WngrI Shortly after this dialogue he asked his mother Ir sbc stIlI retained ! Che blank certificate she had received. Going to closet she brought out a ! tIn box in which she kept receipts took from it Che certificate and handed it to John He looked at It carefully and
 wus ab0ut Co hand it back to her when
 bc changed bis mind and put it in bis |DocErt, saying that he would return it later
 The young man went bNck to Che university to Gt himself for an assist |0nt profcssorshIp In analytical chemls. |trv Uo had with him the blank ccr, ufcatc his mother had given him and examined It with a microscope. The paper showed evidence of slight warning In those parts where there should have been writing. though with.
 ont the aid of the lens it seemed per. | factIy smooth. The idea at once oc- cured to the young scientist that the Brangs had been fIlcd ln with an Ink that was manufactured purposely to fade He began an investigation as to what substances could be made Co
 look like ink and later leave no trace. ! His studies had taught him that io. dine gave promise of furnishing a base
 for such a writing GUId Possibly this wns suggested to him from its violet huc. Che color Of some inks At any rate, hc entered upon a series of eSperi.
 mcuts which led to an important dIs. covcry He found that iodine combined
 with starch iodine of starchl would
 produce an Iul, that would In a few
 weeks fade away. leaving no trace
 whatever.
 The question now arose, Could such an ink be restored? Upon Inquiry the young man learned that no agent had
 ever been found to bring back It's color 1. He made many experiments with this
 end In view. but they an failed.
 Then he had recourse to the micro.
 scope. He tried various powers, and at l Inst hlt upon one, neither too high nor too low. which brought out the lnden- auon on the paper made by writing Of letters making up a certificate between 1. Nathaniel Corwlth and Jane Baxter by Edward WyuEoop. Giving his results
 to an attorney, be was advised to dnd | Edward Wyukoop. The clergyman had died. but John Corwlth found his name
 on the records Of the theological sem. mary where he had been educated and
 various churches of which he had been pastor The fact of bis having used an l. ink that would fade could only be eZ- pIalued by the theory that It had been
 foIsted on him surrepddously by the
 man he had married
 John Corwith found that his father, who had recently died, had not taken another wife and had left a snug for
 tune. which was about to pass to the :. children of the dead mans brother as !. heirs ot law, there being no will. By . means Of the certificate Of marriage he ! established his mothers claim to the 1. nr0Derty but she would never accept a penny Of it except for her son.
 But John required nothing to make |him comfortable, for he became emil
 Deut in hls profession and found h |0r1Gfab'e.