RICH, BUT PENNILESS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4575, 28 April 1922, Page 1

RICH, BUT PENNILESS.

SHELL-SHOCK VICTIM. Unwashed and shivering in his rags, a young man was arraigned recently before a magistrate in St. Paul, Minnesota, on a charge of vagrancy. He had nothing to say for himself. He seemed dazed, and answered in vague monosyllables the questions put to him. It coiild not be proved that lie had been disorderly, or had begged alms of anybody. His only offence appeared. to bo that bo was penniless and friendless. “Discharged,” said the magistrate. A policeman took him by tho arm, and the prisoner, without a word, turned and shuffled towards tho door of tho court. RANCH OWNER AND OUTCAST. Just as ho reached it the door opened, and in hurried Mr Oliver B. Dunvardo, a wealthy ranch owner, of Montana, who, having accompanied a large shipment of cattle ho lmd sold, had come to tho police court to pay the fine of one of his cowboys who bad got himself into troublo amid tho alluring joys of the big city. Mr Dunvardo bumped right into tho outcast, and nearly knocked bin over. Ho roaiclied out to steady the man, but broke off bis half-uttered apology to throw both arms round him. “Why, Frank,” he stammered, “whore have you been?” Tho man in rags was startled. Then bis wholo demeanour changed as his brother hugged him affectionately. “I’m sure I don’t know, Oliver,” he answered. WANDERING FOR FOUR YEARS. Tho magistrate a steed what it was all about, and was told that the vagrant, Frank Durwrde, was a member of a prominent family in. Boston; that ho had returned from the war suffering from shell-shock, and one day had disappeared. . That was four years ago. Since then he had been wandering over the country, a victim of amnesia, remembering neither who he was nor whence ho had come. His parents and brother had spent hundreds of pounds in their efforts to traco him. ' Frank Durwarde is now under a doctor’s care in St. Paul's most fashionable hotel, and will soon rejoin his parents in Boston. They were informed by telegraph of the strange meeting of. the brothers.