New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-15

no unexplained visits no letters, nothing that would
even suggest a secret r .:,o c,,,ooso
And vet the secret was there an lne IIic ouPPo'0
she never should succeed in finding II? -,
Oddly enough there was something tonic IN the idea
The future didn't look quite empty, now that she
had task before her that was going TO cal Tor te cAc
She would set about finding out who she was, who her
father had been She knew she wanted to DO that lcC
sure indeed that he would have wanted ner 10. hcIt
was nothing shameful in the secret vi thaV Sc rev
SIRE Indeed no msgving at all on that score arose u
trouble her She would DO her best to hnd out
And if she failed-why, then she could Just go on
being Pamela Harris. g. -
She could earn a living-oh, IN nan dozen "dyS,
She had three Continental Languages that she could
write and speak as easily as English She was con-
nctcnt stenographer Her father had once dictated
long romance of adventure to her, ana eil Hdu ny
published it. The manuscript must be IN one Oh thcH
trunks in Chicago now. And then she was a telegra-
phcr One lazy summer when they had had nothing
better TO do her father had installed par oil keys ana
saunders in the cottage he had rented ana IoI 'No
months their principal communication had been III
onge and shorts She knew the Morse code as well as
her alphabet Or if she wanted TO capitalize her kioWI-
edge of the travel OF the world, and her Skin as
courier she could probably get job as travelling COM
panion to somebody. c.
And the first step in that attempt was to go to Chicago
get their trunks out Of storage, and make careful careful
search She was TO find something there that Wod
furnish at least a clue to her identity
WHAT with her getting new clothes and making her
w arrangements for sailing, her week IN London was
pretty well occupied But the voyage back to America
at least the first two three days OF It, was tal 'naV
tested AL her fortitudc.
The, had spent great deal Of time at sea, she and
her father His deck chair had always been pulled up
close beside hers And during these long days when she
was alone or nantci ON each side by strangers the
sense of loss was almost intolcrablc.
She tried To- read: but no book seemed able TO hold
her thoughts She tried to occupy them with me my
tcrv that was waiting for her in Chicago; but that c
straight back to the Old trail To- her fathers youth anu
her own early rccolcgtons OF him. .,.
Al last i'm sheer self defense, She took TO thinking
about ohn Stanfcd The DID, illogical resentment over
his having taken Of her hours and so muc OF hcT
tots ON the dav that had been her father last was
on,nov. Sbcsw how illogical il was, and regretted H.
4 She thought back over the days that followed DC.
fathers DEATH She realized how kind he had been To hcr
There had been flowers everywhere not Just inc il|'
blossoms. flowers that must have come from London
Il, his bidding And besides that there were host Oh
little Nndncsscs whose very existence she realized "ny
in retrospect, that must have sprung IRON ms thought
ful prcoccupa,on for her comfort
She had not thanked him; had not even slld go,d"E
.o him: had not even learned his name until the land
liy said that Mr.. Staucld had left the night before
lie was gone and unless Fate interviewed once more
there wasn't much chance that She would ever see h"
Wen. wasn't She used 20 that? Hadn't her life been
made up uf meeting people and then losing them cone
rlcclv, But hc somehow, wasn't that kind Of person
The talk on the railing o the bridge that niEA' WASH
the sort Oi talk she'd ever had with anyone else
II She was utterly alone and trcndIcs today, II was
her own doing. There was one person m the world
who had held out q hand 90 her. and She haan taken
il. She realized now that She bad never meant I" lose
him completely; then when. on the first day out She
had scanned the passenger list 500 eagerly, u hai been
IN the uuaosnowlcigcl hope 81 finding ais name IN IT,
She kept away as well as She could from the other
passengers, and her mourning garh protected her ana
made j, easier The only exception She made WAS IN
favor ~ older woman "uo was evidently H unhappy