FATE'S JEST
» Stranded in Edinburgh, a penniless Ixilo in his own country, is a Scotsman who eagerly left Nova Scotia on a 3000----mile voyage to claim a fortune left by his dead mother. The man. is Peter Duncan, who 17 years ago.left Edinburgh for Canada and fortune: Fortune eluded him. Two months ago he was working as a cook.in a restaurant in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He saw lus name in a newspaper. An Edinburgh firm of lawyers was searching for Mr. Duncan. His mother, who had owned a store when he left 17 years before, had died. He was the only heir. Canadian newspapers estimated that he had been left a fortune of about £25,000. 1 Mr. Duncan communicated with the lawyers. They sent him £.25, and he immediately "booked his passage to Liverpool. Ho took the first train to Edinburgh. He proved his identity to the lawyers, nncl after a short discussion ho "was given ;i form to sign,. It was ii receipt—for 'X.-5. That was all that was loft of his deaij mother's fav in tin.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1934, Page 13
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178FATE'S JEST Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 49, 27 August 1934, Page 13
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