The papers were sealed, and she resumed her maiden name.
"As far as I can find out, Vanderdyke then disappeared from her
life. He resigned his position with the railroad and joined a
party of engineers exploring the upper Amazon. Later he went to
Venezuela. Miss Laporte also went to South America about the same
time, and was for a time in Venezuela, and later in Peru.
"Vanderdyke seems to have dropped all his early associations
completely, though at present I find he is back in New York
raising capital for a company to exploit a new asphalt concession
in the interior of Venezuela. Miss Laporte has also reappeared in
New York as Mrs. Ralston, with a mining claim in the mountains of
Peru."
"And Templeton?" asked Craig. "Had he had any previous
matrimonial ventures?"
"No, none. Of course he had had love affairs, mostly with the
country-club set. He had known Miss Laporte pretty well, too,
while he was in law school in New York. But when he settled down
to work he seems to have forgotten all about the girls for a
couple of years or so. He was very anxious to get ahead, and let
nothing stand in his way. He was admitted to the bar and taken in
by his father as junior member of the firm of Templeton, Mills &
Templeton. Not long ago he was appointed a special master to take
testimony in the get-rich-quick-company prosecutions, and I
happen to know that he was making good in the investigation.
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