Show AFTER TWENTY TEARS flwibanil and Wife Reunited In aVery a-Very Peculiar Manner New York Oct 18 Edward Sheffield of Melbourne Australia and Ellen his wife of Helena Montana met In the 3aw office of Richard V Boyd last night the first time in twenty years Each had believed the other dead but each had remained faithful Nearly a quarter of a century ago in Southampton England Sheffield a captain ofa hlp met and loved pretty S Elleo MSrsfoalls William Porcac a L u k young merchant also loved her but the bluff sailor won the girl Eawaid and Ellen had been marrisd two years when Edwards ship was chartered tot Brazil On the voyage it was wrecked The sailors took to the small boats and were lost The captain clung fo days to the wavewashed hull till a passing schooner took him aboard He was landed friendless and penniless un the South American coast and turned his hand to any sort of work lie could find in the wretched South American towns where fate cast him After years cf hardship he scraped together enough to take him home only to find his wife gone Edward inquired of iis oldtime rival and Porter told him maliciously that Mn Sheffield had gone off to tm erica with another man The young man left at once for Australia bought a small ranch near Melbourne and tcok to sheep farming Success vas slow but sure He became moderately rich but he never married though he heard his wife was dead While going through his old sea chest some months ago Sheffield found memoranda of deeds to 500 acres of land in Montana which he had bought for a song twentyfive years ago He wrote to Clive Pritchard a London lawyer to look the matter up and tee if the land was worth anything any-thing Pritchard wrote to Lawyer Boyd of this city and ne communicated communica-ted with a lawyer in Helena which was near the lands in question The reply was that Mrs Sheffield had shown deeds for the land and sold most of it at a high price as silver had been found in several places Mrs Sheffield was a widow the Helena lawyer reported re-ported She wrote that she took the deeds for the Montana lands and came to America to see what she could sell them for As for the story that she had run off with another man that was a false story of Porters The husband and wife hastened to unite their lives once more They decided to settle in Montana Sheffield sold his Australian ranch and crossed the water and Mrs Sheffield came east to meet him They started west at once |