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 CHAPTER X.

TOM, DICK, HARRY, AND THE BABY.

For the next week Mr. Smith was untiring in his efforts to find the missing Joseph Smith, his namesake. Telegrams sped back and forth between Baltimore and San Diego, with the result that the only information gained was: on the very day, or the next following that, on which Mrs. John Smith sailed from San Diego for Santiago de Chile, Doctor Alexander MacDonald, otherwise known as "Doctor Mack," had departed for the Philippines. No person at their recent home knew anything further concerning these two persons, and owing to their long journeys all communication with them was for the present impossible.

The seventy-five Joseph Smiths residing in or around Baltimore had all been unearthed, so to speak, without finding one who in any