Paramount Press Books (1917)

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SYNOPSIS. Two years and half after the birth of his little:son, whose advent had cost him the life of his wife, and whom he had therefore sent away to a home for motherless infants, Mr. Kendall, a wealthy merchant, decided that he needed the boy after all, to brighten the lonely home, and he telephoned for the child to be brought immediately. On the way up, however, the child mysteriously disappears from the carriage and the father and servants are completely mystified. In the meantime, Niccolo, a kindly, naive Italian junkman, finds a boy of about two and a half years of age, tucked in among the rags of his wagon with a note reading "Whoever finds this child may have him--no one wants him." Niccolo is delighted with his charge and takes him to his humble home in triumph, stopping on the way to exhibit the boy to his two friends, Nita Lapi and Paolo Mearso, his rival for Nita's hand. They advise taking the child to the police station, but Niccolo keeps putting this off on one excuse or another as he grows very fond of the boy and hates to part with him. Domuuruieep1o Kendall home, the frantic father offers Mrs, Flint, matron of the Home where his boy had been, five thousand Pomlatreet Or tie ureLurn. Otshis, child?) Mrs. Flint isa hard cal— culating woman and resolves to win the money at all costs. She advertises in the papers, adding "No questions will be asked." Paolo Marso, Niccolo's rival, seeing the advertisement, thinks it an opportunity to make a little money if the child Niccolo has 18