Year: 1874

1 Out Ol inc UNob VI W llklC OOlAlAr
interesting stories Is called "No
Name" and incidental to the un-
folding of its narrative occurs men
tion OF the city of Now Orleans
from whence one of the chief char
acters in the story receives "A mys'
terious letter. NO Name is purely
a work of fiction, and is told in Col
Inns own magnetic style, so that II
commands the earnest attention oi
even the most critical reader.


Curiously enough, in this late
Day, that fiction has come to Gad
in the same New Orleans a proto-
type of truth-a realistic episode
which might we'll have served for
the groundwork of Collins remark
able narrative.


The facts Os the case, which were
presented 20 the writer but thirty
six hours ago, will be here briefly
given.


Up TO within year there resided
in the city, we'll known in fashion
able circles, a .liddle-aged gentle
msn-a wealthy, retired merchant
and charming young lady, who
was known before the world as his
daughter. The gentleman was
left q widower early in life, and
thereafter devoted himself to the
society of his daughter, who, deeply
affectionate toward her father, Law
ished her care, solicitude and love
upon him, even TO the exclusion Of
free participation in the iashiona-
BILE pleasures of life, which were
bountifully at her command. When
ever she ventured forth, either for
the promenade, the interchange of
social courtesies, or an occasional
indulgence in fetes and amusements,
she was ever seen at her fathers
side, and she was happily content
10 manifest her earnest desire to
seek no other society, no other
friendship.


Thus these two lived and loved
together, and they became invested
III the circle of their society with
q hallowed interest, and the story
of their lives was a subject which
entered largely into the current So
ciety topics ef the day. 1t was gen.
orally understood that the daugh-
ter was the sole heIress of her fa
theirs great possessions, and that his
death would transmit to her the
the riches of a princess. This was,
indeed, the .avowed sentiment of
her father, and he failed not TO i'm
press upon her mind the fact that
in his will be would indicate that
his purpose had been faithfully car
ried to fruition


Here, however, is presented the
first parallel to the fanciful creation
of Collins brain.


Pater familIas deferred the max
ing of his will from day TO day, al
though urged to do so by his daugh-
ter, but 10th, as man usually is, to
take up the themo which brings be-
fore his mind the unpleasant sub
ject of death.


Less than q twelvemonth ago he
was suddenly stricken with fatal
illness, and then for the first time
nerved himself to a determination
to execute the will in fuliillment of
his duty, but the hand of death,
which had come upon him, stayed
not it's force for the eonsummation
of his desire, and ere he could work
out that wish he died. And now
steps in the second parallel TO Col
Inns creation. The death of the
father revealed that she whom the
world had looked upon as his
deaghter was his illegitimate child.
She had for years been painfully
aware of II; her fathers relatives
had known It, and To- the sequel
of the story is furnished in the re-
cital that when the grave closed O.
yer the departed they appeared
TO claim his possessions, and to
drive forth into the world the fair
Young girl who had earned the re-
ward Of Vaternal love, but who,
through the inscrutable dispensa-
ton of Providence, found herself at
last homeless, friendless and poor,
turned adrift to battle with the bit
ter realities OF life, without name
and without q friend.


The kindred of the man, whose
diving moments we're embittered by
the thought that the object of his
| life's love would suffer through hi
own unmeant injustice, were legally


the pOssessors of that wealth whiel