The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-28
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1 penny that you have spent will have to be refunded"
 T can't understand it even yet 2 Some of Roses native wit was be- ginning to return to her How did you ever come to mistake me for for Rose Conaldine?"
 T see that l must explain it in greater detail When Clement Conaldine deserted his wife anc child he left them, as I have told you, penniless. His wife, came tc New York and consulted us. We dic not then know where Conaldine had gone with the woman Muir.
 The one small service we were ! able to render his wife was to re- lieve her of a certain embarraSs- ment You will remember that one Of Conaldine's inventions met with wide demand. This-ah-design was just beginning to be taken up 1 q II U Q I bu4 OA AloA VI ware and Mrs. Conaldine was find- ing it more and more humiliating to have to confess to these men that she could not even forward their letters to her husband, as she lacked his address. We were able to take this correspondence entirely cut of her hands with the result that, when this device began to sell in large quantities, we-the firm of Perle and Kevern-were made trus- tees of the fortune"
 "But then how in the world you must have known who was go- ing to get it-!"
 "One momentl While the manu- lecturers were making no more than their preliminary inquiries, Ccnaldine with whom we had been trying to get into contact, suddenly flashed into prominence. He was wanted for the murder of Bolt He disappeared. Time passed The money that began to accumulate for the wanted man was held in trust for his wife and daughter who meanwhile also had disap- peared."
 But I still don't seq"
 One moment morel We failed to find Conaldine's wife and child, Then, ere day, eight years after lConaldine's disappearance, we re- ceived this"
 He drew from his pocket cheap, soiled envelope, containing cheap, soiled piece of notepaper. On it, an lunaccustcmed hand had written a message in pencil.
 T see there's lot of my new !oil-burners being sold for high prices if you want to see justice done there's my kiddie in the Sarah Sidley Home her mothers dead and buried but you'll find the kid easy enough if you ask for the one that was in the Lexington train crash with her mother. It's risk me writing to you but I'd like ths kid to have something she was 6 pretty kid with blue eyes though I don't put her above"
 Rose turned the sheet. There was nothing. Then she noticed thai the left-hand edge of the paper was jagged, as though the other half of the sheet had been torl away.
 Tt came to us in that condition, explained Mir. Perle, retrieving it 'l"I was, most unfortunately, away on business and the matter wa taken up by MT. Kevern. He mad' Iperfnctory inquiries, a s $ u m Il blindly that Conaldine, in this scral of a letter, referred to his lega , wife and her child, Rose. MT. Rev iern asked me, on my return, to talk . lyou from the Home and have yo' ], educated; and even when it becam
 necessary, on your coming of age to produce proofs of your identit. and so forth, it did not occur t me that the very fact that you wer [ just twenty-one made it impossibl | that you should be Conaldine's chilt by his wife"
 Rose forced her dry lips to fram
 a question.
 What am I to do?" , There is a way out" he said. } She was trembling violently. 7 Tt is this-Conaldine's heires : has never been found. There doe not appear to me to be any mean of finding her"
 You m n-that-she-needn
 know. If I-keep this money-sh
 needn't know?" T do not see that she can eve l possibly knowP"
 + Roses face twitched. She under
 stood him well enough.
 | You are, you say, heavily 1
 debt to the Conaldine fortune.
 would mean years of slavery-on
 can call it little else-if you wer
 forced to pay the debt. By th J means I have in mind we shoul