| The advertisement, complete with boxnumber, appeared in New York newspa-pers: "Will anyone having informationabout an infant abandoned in Manhattantwenty-eight years ago please communi-cate." Katherine Derwith had placed the ad-vertisement. In love with a very properlawyer, she had refused to marry him un-til she solved the mystery of her parent-age. Somehow she had to find theanswers to questions that had hauntedher for years; Who had left her, a youngbaby, in a shadowy corner of a HudsonRiver warehouse? Why had she beenabandoned? Among those who answered her adver-tisement was Carl Dietrich, a televisionnewsman. Although he disclaimed anyknowledge of her origins, he offered tohelp her in her search. Katherine, how-ever, had an uneasy reeling that he wasnot dealing straightforwardly with her.Her instinct was correct. |
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