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rriiiK'. Ik- declared thai lie had since seen Schall. 

 then grown to manhood and helieving liimself to Ije 

 the son of the New ^'ork man, whcxse fortune he 

 had inherited. 



Daniels is searching through his effects to try 

 to hnd a record of the name Nesbit gave him and 

 Schall is |)re])aring to leave for Xew \'ork to try to 

 locate his son. Schall corroborates the story (jf the 

 sportsman insofar as the offer of adoption is con- 

 cerned. He says that he connected the occurence 

 with the disappearance of his son, but being poor 

 and unable to pay his expenses to New York at a time 

 when the nearest railroad was forty miles away and 

 travel was a luxury, was unable to follow u|) the 

 clue. — Milton, Pa., "Miltouiaii." 



