Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-05

venture to back his opinion with any con-
siderable sum of money. Her ladyship's
mind Is an uncertain quantity, you know.
London correspondence published IN the
ScurTiious NeU York iueekly first quoted.
That is not all, but think 1t is enough.
There are other clippings, 20 odd more of
them, but their interest Is but passing {;
they tell us nothing new. Some are mere
duplicates of those which l have quoted,
duplicates in essence, that Is.
Others, again. are of later dates than
the last above. and furnish only con-
tinuation or, rather, confirmation of their
intelligence. l read in one, dated March
80, that nothing has been heard of Mr..
Anthony Sevrance, well-known barrister,
who disappeared'-and so forth.
From another / learn that the Com
mander Won Something g-or-other has been
ordered from Kiel to the Court of st.
James, to replace Captain Kurd Won Holz-
born, absent without leave. This Is some
three months after the event
Again we hear that It is believed that
Lady Herbert and her yacht, the MyOsotiS,
shared in the fate that overlook the hapless
VtStuld in the North Sea. This Is under the
date of April IS, up to which time the
MUosotLs had not been reported. But fisher
men had brought into Lynn Regis the por-
ton of the sternpost of lifeboat, which
they had picked up far out at sea. The
fragment showed three letters, presumably
part of the name of the vessel to which
the boat belonged. They were: STU"
Which Is held fairly conclusive proof OF
the sinking of the Pistuld.
The matter OF the stolen yacht was drop
ped by it's owners, Messrs Rogers & Greer,
shipwrights of yarmouth. The search in
stituted for the vessel and its crew of ruff
fans was reported fruitless. The world
followed the example OF the worthy builders
and ceased TO concern itself with the mat
.a--t.N IANk
history.
AS for the Japanese battleship, the wags
made merry over the visions of the hys-
terical Hull trawlers for a week or So
who, as one says, went down to the sea
in ships to catch haddocks and caught
hallucinations. And then that subject, too,
lost flavor for the public palate. The
trawlers lapsed into sullen silence, as BELTS
true men whose word is doubted without
sufficient cause.
But last of all the little stack OF clippings
comes one from the same source as the
hrst-and only other-concernlng Mr..
Trail
1t is now three months since Mr.. Trail
has vanished from the haunts OF men,
which is to say, has left New York. He has
sent home no word. His relatives, with
their minds eyes on the Trail income, are
anxious and perturbed on his account. His
lawyers profess ignorance OF his where
abouts, though they are obviously not dis
tressed. He is in danger of being forgotten
of the world-that part OF the world, that
is, which lies within the limits of Man
haitian Island. So the scandalmongering
sheet rushes yaliantly TO the rescue, sound
ing his name for the last time in many
day.
A mere line. this:
where. OH, where, is Gordon Trail. Es-
quire-our 'Gaudy' TFaiI?
But the query has lain long enough un-
an dOnhfIngR ifa author has
forgotten the penning OF 1t. Yet ! fancy
that even he win take an interest in the
reply, from Trails own lips, belated though
IL comes. Here is his story.