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Show Kin and Riches Find Pencil Peddler GREEN IUT, WIS. Henri de la Motte, aged scion of a noble no-ble French family, Is here, far from the curbstone pencil marts of Chicago. Forsaking the Cathedral Shelter home at 850 Washington Wash-ington boulevard, where a cot was his castle and desolate old men his only companions, he Is with his long-lost family. M. de la Motte's forthcoming heritage heri-tage of more than a million dollars (estimated) (es-timated) due him from an ancient estate es-tate in Chantllly, France led to the reunion here In the home of a daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Fred Leldgen. As one of three heirs to this fortune, he had been sought for some time. He Is seventy-four seventy-four years old. It was more than a quarter of a century cen-tury ago, when he was forty-seven, that SI. de la Motte disappeared from his home in Milwaukee. His wife and four small daughters looked for him In vain. Later they grew tired of waiting wait-ing and watching. The daughters married mar-ried and moved away. One of them died. Their father himself was given up as dead. Here they met again. There was Mrs. Leldgen and her husband, and Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Gegere, and Sirs. Harriet H. Scott of New York, widow of Judge Robert Walker Scott, who conducted the search for her father. fa-ther. There were three granddaughters, granddaugh-ters, Stlss Audrey George, Sirs. A. J. Slayhugh and Mrs. John Rnrton. whom the old man had never seen. And there was one great-granddaughter, Lauretta Rarton. One other person was present the old man's wife, whom he had left 27 years before. She sat on a piano bench and stured at her hushand and giggled. Eighty-four years old Is Mrs. de la Motte, but she chattered like a girl. Sirs, de la Slotte and her children and her children's children listened to the story of Henri's life In Chicago. They shook their heads over the spectacle spec-tacle of a De la Slotte selling pencils in the days of ebbing fortune. Hut they nodded their heads In approval ap-proval when the old man proudly proclaimed pro-claimed : "I have kept the honor of the family untarnished. Henri de la Sloite was never so reduced In estate that he begged, borrowed or stole a penny In bis entire life." |