I have been inclined to resent the fact that none of my friends or relatives has ever inquired what became of me." "Are you sure they have not ?" "I have watched the papers carefully.

In two years I have followed several clues.

A bricklayer disappeared, but his drowned body was finally found; a college professor was missing, but he was sixty years of age; a young man in New York embezzled a large sum and hid himself.

I followed that trail, although regretfully, but the real embezzler was caught the day I presented myself in his place.

Perhaps the most curious experience was in the case of a young husband who deserted his wife and infant child.