It ran:
4000 POUND REWARD. 4000 POUND REWARD. 4000 POUND REWARD.
The above sum will be paid to any person giving information leading to
the recovery of Elizabeth E. Kernaby, aged seven years. She strayed or
was stolen in Kensington Gardens between the hours of 10 and 11 a. m.,
on the 19th ultimo. She is fair with blue eyes, and long flaxen hair,
speaks with a lisp, and answers to the name of Bessie. Any person
bringing information to Messrs. Datchett & Hobb's, 127, Lincoln's Inn
Fields, or to Mr. Joseph W. Kernaby, 11a, Cadogan Square, will receive:
4000 POUND REWARD. 4000 POUND REWARD. 4000 POUND REWARD.
He laid the paper on his knee, and began to consider the facts of the
kidnapping, as he remembered them from the newspaper reports. Her
nurse had taken her to Kensington Gardens, where she had foregathered
with the little daughters of Sir William Uglow. The children's play
had little by little drawn them away from their gossipping nurses,
right out of their sight; and when their nurses went to look for them
they found only the little Uglows; Elizabeth Kernaby had gone. The
children said that a tall gentleman had come to them and, telling her
that her mamma had sent him for her, had taken her away in a cab.
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