The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-27

about preparing the evening meal. The
girl never returned. Inquiries showed
that she did not visit the shop, and
she has not been heard of since. Vain
also were the efforts to trace the girl
who came up from the north of Eng
land two years ago to take up a situa-
ton in a northern suburb, It is known
that she, reached Kings Cross safely,
but after that her movements are hid
den behind the veil that hides so
many of London's mysteries. She has
not appeared since, and it is a
thousand to one that she never will.
There was the young solicitor who
left his chambers in the West End one
bright morning last year and was
never seen again. Everything humanity
possible was done to trace him, but
all in vain.
"0Id Emma"
I know an old lady who has. been
trying to find her missing husband for
thirty years. She lives at Manner
smith. One morning, somewhere, In
the eighties, he went off to catch his
omnibus for business in the city, and
she has not seen him since. For years
and years the poor old woman has
travelled over the same ground twice
q day in the hope of finding him, but
l am afraid their next meeting will be
beyond the great divide. The last
time I saw her she told me she had
not yet lost hope, but there was that
In her y which tcld that the drawn
out search was affecting her brain. I
cheered her up as best l could, advised
her. to advertise in the papers and
consult the police, but she had done
these things long, long ago. Her hus-
band has gone, and, as far as this
world is concerned, probably gone for
ever.
Some of my readers may have met
odd Emma" who for a long time was
q landmark in the vicinity of CHARMS
Cross, She, too, had lost her husband,
but she believed, poo old soul, that if
she waited long enough by Trafalgar
square she would see him passing the
lions. Having no means she sold
matches, and occasionally, when the
n1atch-selling was killing her, and the
pathetic vigil had dimmed her sight
almost to blindness, she would grip a
customers arm and ask In an anxious
way il he had noticed the appearance
of this man or the other man who had
just passed by. Whether she found
her husband or not I cannot say. /
believe she did, because / missed her
one afternoon, and a day or two later
I learned that she was dead. Its SO
ard to find anybody in London, isn't
1T" she used to say. why, the
4plice can't find a man, if he likes to
keep quiet. Didn't yon never 'ear--"
and, lowering her voice to a whisper,
Old Emma would give me another
chapter in London's secret history,
Lordon has cloaks enough to hide lis
all. III You want to disappear all YOU
need do is move round the corner
Very few people In the metropolis are
on speaking terms with those who live
IN the next fiat or in the next house.
There have been several cases in res |
cent years OF policemen having resided
In the same block as men who were |
wanted for some notorious crime. ana
there is an instance on c Of 4
wealthy ~ex-convict who vanished. as
sumed q disguise and another name.
became a property owner, and actual
~ leased a house to the Judge who |
some years before had sentenced him
To penal seryitlde. Not very long Hgn
tt was found On the death Of al cer-
tain public official that he had been
running Two establishments for TWEEN
W Years. He had two wives and two
families, vet neither of the wornen#hadI
me least suspicion. IT was because
the man lived in London.
Unsooiabie london.
lt8isssr1e2t to impossible to@carrv Al
dlplicity In the country. but hera
ifl the capital; where neighbors, % far
from being friendly, are terribly slls
plclouis 3of one another, a burglar or
murderer can live fcrSyears 5arnonr "a
people without being discoyl
eTeas lI LONDON would only absorb i