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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1889)
wkst mm:. "My poor, IohI darling, my little (irace! what he inunt have suffered. Yea, it must to my little (irace," he murmured. The tiny hhirt with the initial "(1. (!," precrved firat ly the fiidiernian'a wife and Inter hy Mr. Irving, wag alo produced, nml eeined the ti mil inliettallc evidence. "She ha hair mid complexion like niv wife, hut there the likenc end," the 'rofcor toM John Heath for itn warm, rie lieattty, when nnin a handome ve el waa making ita way toward the California count. A gentleman nnd lady at on deck looking through glac for the tirt night of land. Sin they were joined ly a middle-aged, pleaant faced mid). A few minute general convention followed, hut depite the carele tone of the two men, there wa a nd, far away lnok in their eye that totokened ome inm r nar row, or torturing memory. After a hrief ailence the that ivenini!. "Her feature. exnrcinn and mat nrr ' new -comer nid in a hard, hitter Voice j miiKt U'long to my cide, o wholly i he unlike (i race; , "Odd cnation (hi for a man to to riding over hut I urn nte atiHticl t tut t hue can Im none other 1 hi own grave, than my loid child. The coincidence of an- '''T''l'.:J" W;.T--. other golden haired two ... '. ." t",' " . 1 year old on the Storm , ., '. V' ..- l!ir,l its unlikely, and y'tf hfl: - V' r"' then her memory of the j , ufr-s$?,m pretty, pale woman, 3 Jjf, . fjfl ?' and the initial leave little room for douht. -v;; I am )liapMiintc(i in that I imagincil that I hould know her the moment I aw her, that he would inatuntly ami strikingly remind me of (irace; hut after all, daughter eldom do rcemhle their moth er." A for Imogene, he Wanie at once ah. mat paionately attached to the grave, hitndaome man, and gladly forook the people who had heen father and moth er to her to accompany him to America the fol lowing autumn. "Truly hlood i "Mr. l-awrenre, what can you mean?" cried the lady, in urprie, while her ecort turned sharply un the akcr. " I mean jut thin, that t am upocd to have lept heneath the water outide thetiol den liate for alnt.mt sixteen year." The girl laughed lo r voindy. " Ciilil 11 spring I, I." i, wa up pic to to sloping In the nme cemetery." " And mv wife iIim sleep there unh'M an other miracle ha U rn iM-rformiil, and I yet find her alive and well, a I did my daughter here." Of course, mutual explanation followed, none of which can to of interval to the render ave the tory told lU-t hviihe ulrauiier: fiy&'tZt "M-! name i not Lawni , at all, hut Vccdcr '?S -z- -e VM.I.r" he .it id "Mixliill Vear Ko wa 'xfrt7'i. entilldeiitinl clerk in a large mercantile i-.tnhih tffr meiit iii ."an KraneiiNii and wa enl to Tokio, mm " i iuci t im I et' imiu ur " Jiipan. on huinc f.ir the llrm. I lil ! t expi l . ' i . I,,' In elifrd three month I linldc one thicker"! mn w'atc'r " ! ,aid Pologe.,cllv to Alma rcrl M my employer after my arrival In Tokio, ...d thicker than wat.r. mm y .U.M.-temv friend. on what lc r they mlghtn- Heath who pjnn'wt onie wonder at her nt'liii.r- aiwr-o wj main, wno ixpn- return. When the M..rwi W-tlmt cnctoherfoHter-parent. ,.,,, . !,, Ve,l-Merv ! what the matte, f The ...r- IW Mr. Irvmg wa ,,,,. ' r , ,Mf nt .Ur, , ,,,,,, p,Ur girl a heartle and ungrateful, untd the I r f . ... aettlnl unite a um of money on tl.cn. a. rcom,- 1 1 ... .. i ii ..i i...t. "Noma ternow.gnon. for the care they had given in cnn-i. i.e.. - ,N'oiiiatternow,g"on."Mid the 'rifiorh"rely "A I wa Mving. when the Shrm llifl dd I mi .till In Tkknd he trtel from Yokohama A few daV later I t'k paae oil the f..r lloug Kong, Intending to reach liuie l-V way of ll.no lnlil' hilt our tlohle tellier o.t lief Unfit. ill fog , i ,i . ,i I ,..r and went to 1'ie.v on r k To my knowledge, u Itwathemonthof(MoUr.ft.,lth.-w-rld".r I I',H.r child, what nnfortunate trau.M.g ! had." thought the father a he iiot.nl the hall.. n of the mother.