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Never Give Up Hope.
Yet, ever since the sixth of December, at least one father in this city has endured this terrible suffering and suspense. Even before it was known that more than two children were saved out of the forty one in the Protestant Orphan's Home, Mr. Duncan Robertson had had word that his little girl, aged five years, who was boarding at that institution, had been taken out alive. Nothing ever shook his faith, although for days and days, and nights and nights, he made the dreary rounds of hospitals and morgues, three, four and six times a day. At the same time every clue, or even the shadow of a clue, was followed up, and any child found anywhere was visited. During the days when the Morning Chronicle and The Daily Echo maintained the Information Bureau, no effort was spared to locate the little Robertson girl, but without avail. No body was recovered from the Home site that answered to the description of little Elizabeth Robertson, who was fair, with blue eyes, rosy cheeks and light hair, cut Dutch clip, a pretty little thing only five years old.
As one by one children who had escaped from the falling building were located, this anxious father heard afresh that his little girl had escaped too. Recently a new story came to him, which he has thoroughly investigated, and new hope and new fear alike have resulted. A little boy named Murley, who with his sister, was among the children in the Home, was removed to the Infirmary, having had his leg broken by some flying material. He said his sister and Elizabeth Robertson had both been saved. "Find my sister" said the little lad excitedly, "and she will tell you about Elizabeth"

Annie Murley's Story.
Search was instituted for Annie Murley, who was located at the I.O.D.E. Home. Through the kindness of Miss Caldwell, Mr. Robertson was able to see the little girl, who is a quiet child not much given to talking, and secured from her this story: