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Rh cast away on an island, and did not get back to San Francisco until five days ago."

"I declare, it sounds like a fairy tale!" cried Franklin. "Where is Wilbur Bliss now?"

"He has gone to hunt up his sister, while I came to hunt up you."

"Find him and bring him along without delay," said the young electrician.

Walter Robinson knew exactly what street Wilbur Bliss had taken in starting on his search, and he found the man in less than a quarter of an hour. Then the two, accompanied by Franklin, went to the hotel at which the latter had left Mrs. Bliss.

The meeting between brother and sister was a very affecting one. Mrs. Bliss could hardly believe her eyes, and shed many tears of joy, in which the inventor joined. It was a scene Franklin never forgot.

One of the first questions Wilbur Bliss asked, was concerning his only child, whom he had left in the Home in New York when he had started for Australia on the trip upon which Montague Smith had sent him.

Franklin asked for a description of the child, and from this, said he felt certain that little Cora was the one. Subsequent events proved such to be the case. Belden Brice had adopted her, merely because he was lonely, and because he desired to do something for the man, who had left the country