AFTER TWENTY YEARS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 11

AFTER TWENTY YEARS

DAUGHTER COMES HOME. “She is just as I thought she would be, with a nice gentle voice and quiet, calm ways,” remarked Mrs George Argurious, of York road, Southend, England, when she saw her 21-year-old daughter, Theodora, recently, for the first time since she was a baby five months old. Theodora and her nurse disappeared during the Balkan war of 1012 While fighting was taking place at Belgrade, where the family was then settled. All trace of her was lost until recently, when it was discovered that she had been adopted from an orphanage by a Yugoslavian official at Belgrade. Mr Argurious, who keeps a furrier's shop at Southend, went to Belgrade to bring Theodora home. “ My daughter came into the shop this evening” Mrs Argurious said, “and I thought she was a customer. I asked her what I could do for her, and she just looked hard at me for a time, then said, ‘Mammal* and embraced me. I am sure I should have known her by her eyes. Oh, it is wonderful! ” Mrs Argurious was formerly Miss Helen Morris, of Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire, and her husband, Mr George Argurious, is of Greek birth. He became a naturalised Englishman in 1007. For years the couple made inquiries after the missing hutse and child, but only recently the husband had a tangible clue, which eventually led to Theodora’s discovery.