"Where were my mother's father and mother for the four years immediately following her marriage ?" "They went to Europe to avoid the humiliation of meeting their friends.
There, in Italy, Mrs.Herron developed a fever, and it was several years before she could be brought home.

She retired from society, and has been confined to her room ever since.

When they could return, a search was instituted at once for their daughter, but they never have been able to find a trace.

They have hunted through every eastern city they thought might contain her." "And overlooked a little insignificant place like Chicago, of course." "I myself conducted a personal search there, and visited the home of every Jameson in the directory or who had mail at the office or of whom I could get a clue of any sort." "I don't suppose two women in a little garret room would be in the directory, and there never was any mail." "Did your mother ever appeal to her parents ?" "She did," said the Girl.

"She admitted that she had been wrong, asked their forgiveness, and begged to go home.