Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-07-07

| '" you 70 grown, 10 De sure, Mr.
Edward! Your folks won't know you, l.r
thinking. specially with that baby iu you
arms. Seems to me you're getting to b,
" family man lee,le to early"
| laughed and took my seat. But as ".
began to near my home grew terribly
nervous and cowardly. The house stood
back some distance from the road. aud a
l walked up from the gate saw The Who'll.
family gathered on the piazza to welcome
me think | should rather have waike,
up to the cannon's mouth. Ny siste,
started down the steps t" meet me. tteu
stonPed. stepped on the piazza. My
mother, pale as death. sunk into her chair
My pretty cousin. Fila, on whom had al
ways from round jacket day, been s~ce,
il" sneaking sort Of way. dar,ed an ami.
hilating glance ut me and ran to suppor,
my mother. Ny father advanced.
What do you dare to bring here, you
shameless young rascal? Is this a place
Tie broke down so angry that u,,erance
was absolutely impossible. Atany other
time should have shouted with lau,hter
at the lndicrous spectacle he presented !:
nov only fastened l., tell my story. IL
few moments my mpther's arms we're
round me. my sister and cousin were con.
testing a e"ri for possession Of my bady.
and my father recovered from hi. rage
sufficiently to welcome his only son, tho
did hear him prowl through his white
beard, "C"n'onnied spooney!'
] advertised far and wide to M purpose.
Bn, my bady grew so into the affections Of
all the household that had M other sters
10 take. We named her Perdi,a, aud |
left her with my mother. When l re-
turned, year after year. found her each
time grown heavier aud pr-tlier. and she
each time manife-ted an affection .nr me.
charmi"gly legi,ima,e-tor was she not
MY bahy?" As such Cherished her.
She was six years old when left Wss,
Point for active service. After that led
wandering and n alventurous life for years
by food and fed MY baby" wrote
me, at first often Her first letters we're
curious sp .cimens-.hslf written, half print.
cd, and sometimes her meaning ,ked on,
with rude drawings. In those days she
was cHa'minely personal II do so and
40 Il think so aud .o-l love so and 80 T.
But years changed her ca'ivraphv. and.
alas =! the feeling of h-r letters. Now. ia
her charming siriish characters, stood.
Your mother dues 50 AN! so,' or, Your
sister thinks an. loves" &c. My mother
wrote:
I'VE can't call Perdi,a your 'bahy any
longer. Shs does not permi, the title. and
you, were ynu TO see her, could scarce i'm
agine that our fair Young queen was ever
- baby. an too oil to be enthusiastic.
but eur darling IS surely the loveliest Wis
ion these eyes ever rested on. She make.
hearts ache, but as ye, their p,in is vain
We tried to be cautious, but she las scu.e
how learned ~bout her finding, aud it is
bitter knowledge to the proul little heart.
I. may he tha, ,ha. IN AXE. her m .lt only to
US. Will you never come home 10 see
US and he -"
1t was in the spring Of the year 1856. l
was on my way to America. An elderly
gentleman, who hal evidently been sold
ier. occupied the state-roon next tn IN inc.
A similarly Of taste and feeling brought,
u. much together durin. the voyage. H..
had been absent from the country many
years.
when | left it," said he to M. ~
meant never 10 revisit the shores that had
been accursed to me. lost there my Wifi
and chill under the cruelest circnmstan-
ces, aud could not remain. l though,
then could never see again the spot that
had been sN fatal tn me. And yet return
now. impel'el b some fealiny which can
neither account for nor resist I dream
that am going to see my child, s"ma'
times. even in waking moments. am fully
convinced th~. shall fad her"
"lIuwT interrupted, in spite Of my
SELF Is not your child dead?"
ALAS! do not know"
"You do not know! Did she not die
before you left America =
"No. Three months ago I should have
said wished she had. ra'h.r than live
los. to me, exposed TO fntes I shudler "a
think Of Nov ! am hopeful. More
trustful. Il seems to me she has beer
kept pure. and ,ha, shall know her
And YET and he sighed heavily, 81 hnv
en't the shadow of reason for such hop,
and trust
Iw.s exci'ed-T compared tn. remem
brance Of the miniature on "my bahy's
sleeve chain with the figure before me.
made him explain all. He told mo of the
chi!d's bir h, the delicate health of hi,
wife .atterward. his taking her to Cub !,
leaving the child in, q. he supposed. trust,
care. the death Of his wife in Havana
aud while he was still in the first anguish
of her loss, news from his chld's nurse o
its death, and Of her speedy return to Ire
land lie came to New York too late I,
find her. and left America at once-as h,
supposed forever. In Europe, years af er
ward, he had met . servant VII had bee,
with him during his lrief married liz.
and who hal declared to him posiliv-l,
that his child was not dead at the date or
which tho woman had written him: hu, fur