The Dolores star., 1915-12-17

| first marriage. and when father was
hardly more than a boy. he Quarreled
with grandfather, who turned him out.
Father came to Canada to make his
fortune. drifted to the coast, and hnal-
ly married an American girl in San
Francisco. was born there. my moth
er dying when l was only a baby. and
my father when l was seventeen. Aft
! er that came to Winnipeg and taught
for living. OF course, things were
worse time than I. and for his sake
never could forgive grandfather for
turning him out Of doors.
Some day. Anne" my father used
to say lsughingly. you'll 60 back to
France and be adopted and become
heiress Of Clichy."
| Il guess the rest OF them won't
leave much for me to be heiress Of"
answered usually. and the subject
dropped. Save for a fluent knowledge
OF French l had nothing about me to
betray the fact Of my foreign extrac-
ton. and l never wished to meet any
OF my fathers relatives-never! Some
times my father would speak about
the property in the strong box. 1t was
all In bonds-worthless ones, too
which had been left my father by his
mother. whose dowry had been invest
ed in the old Panama canal, that glori-
GUS enterprise that went down to ruin
twenty odd years ago. carrying with 1t
thousands Of prosperous families in a
general wreck. My grandmother had
always had q pathetic belief that some
day the bonds would be worth some
thing. She left them to my father.
placing them in the strong box which
she held In the vaults of Magniff &
Co. bankers. Of Paris and London.
When she was dying she sent him the
key.
We'll, Anne. they won't do any harm
where they are" my father would say.
Some day. when we're all rich, we'll
go to Paris and take them out and sell
them for old paper"
So now think have explained how
l came to sail for England on the
thirty-first Of May, with five 500 and
one $50 bill in my purse and the key
to the ancestral strong box. Mary
wanted me to sew by bills into the
lining Of my dress. But felt safer
with the money in my purse, for, as
told her. I'd either have to wear the
same dress all the time or keep run
ming into my room to see whether 1t
had been ripped open or not. II had
taken her advice I should never have
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Mary. OF course, was at the train In
| tears waiting to bid me adieu And
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