Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06

notes on some of the leading citizens of Edmonton.
That was hardly fiction at ALL she reflected;
tanly pardonable one.
The young woman behind the desk looked little
puzzled. But nobody in Edmonton" she said, ~has
had his biography written.
"Perhaps the newspaper would help said Pamela
"Have YOU a complete file of it
"Since 1885" the Librarian told her.
1884 will be early enough for me- said Pamela and
then she changed her mind. NO. Ill begin at 1890.
And with that she took her place at the table in the
little reading room, and presently attacked the dusty
heap of volumes that the librarian brought her.
She found herself getting little excited and had to
take moment to steady down The thing begin
ming to form into pattern. What looked at first like
loose ends meeting and knotting themselves up
But it wouldn't do to 60 too fast She must begin at
the beginning That why she checked her first idea
start her search in 1894 1t during the
of that year. the theory she and John had worked
together correct that she herself who knew herself
only by the of Pamela Harris, had been stolen
away from the town of Edmonton dressed in the little
clothes she had found preserved carefully OF
her fathers trunks But if the half bill that seemed to
have puzzled Hiram had come to him from old Peter
Darvel. and if it was indeed the half that her bill
matched then her possible connection with the old
worth looking into.
Hiram Williams had married daughter of old Oar
wells. There might have been another daughter But
if Hiram had married widow if Peter Darvels daugh
ter had married another first and had child by
him
SHE was brought up sharp there by the reflection that
- her mother couldn't have been widow Tered Harris
had told her that she his daughter and he had died
less than two months ago. But mghtn't there have
been a divorce? Mightnt it have been grass widow
that Hiram married? And mightn't that second mar
rage have been the justification her father spoke of for
having stolen her away and changed their and
started life on fresh page!
Pamela stopped guessing and went to work
1t slow going. She would turn dozen pages,
sometimes without getting single crumb Of informa-
ton to reward her labor One thing though, that
through almost at once was the overwhelming dom-
in he tV of
He had daughter Jane 1t appeared and other child
and in her own sphere Jane seemed as important he
All the social feof the place revoved around her. As
far the dusty files furnished food for the imagination
Pamela filled in the father hot-tempered, tyrann
CAL self-wlled sort OF man. formidable no doubt to his
enemies but passonately devoted, she guessed to his
daughter. As for Jane she must have been pretty
the extravagan compliments that were avished her
every time She went to party or appeared as brides
maid at wedding would have been beyond the courage
of village reporter. And the of her doings
made her out to Pamela little frivolous and
little spoiled. The description of team of matched
sore Morgans that her father gave her for birthday
present provided her with hint for that conclusion
And then as Pamela turned the pages she became
suddenly aware that Jane had disappeared from them
completely if she had existed She turned
back. thinking she must have overlooked item
that would account for it; but she hadn't. Jane
picnic supper Round Lake. but in the of the
wedding itself, which took place two days later her
name did not appear among the bridesmaids And it
dldnt appear again.
If she had fallen ILL., she had left on visit if
anything serious had happened to her the fact would
surely have been chroncled. Peter Darvel's APP
peared often There cessation Of his
activities, evidently. But he might have had
daughter The explanation didn't appear for six
months
Then Pamela found short paragraph stating that
Mrs Jane Darve Scott had returned to Edmonton and
was living at the house of her father Mr. Peter Darve
And four months SO later birth notice appeared:
Born to Jane Darvel Scott. June 5th daughter"
To be continued next Sunday
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