The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1866-05-02

hR 'eVef.-
any DEAR KATE: BY the next steamer
you may expect us home You will nat,
uralv inquire Who is the companion i'm
piled 10y us shall bring YOU. INV dear
child, a friend, who ~iII. | trust. atone to
you for your long lie Of loneliness, a
mother
| ! dashed down tho letter. Here was
the misfortune TO make me- heroine. A
step mother! What. ] han'icsIlv asked,
would NV Laura. Cl.rinda. Iunogsne, and
company. have dove in .uca si,ustion
submitted 7 Never. See anoih-r form
in NY idoIis-d mothers accustomed chair,
tear another voice sing the songs she
loved, give to auo' her the love she alone
coul! claim stood b-for. her por,r al,
ia n frame Of mind that would probably
hav" made the original shut me up on
bread AMI water. and seutimenially
vlwed never TO see the invader fill her
sacred place.
"By the mex, steamer Ny tins was
short! But my resolve wa. taken, and
{ was prepared to dare fate by taking nv
future into my oNa hands. took out Of
INV school trunk all the fnery collec, ed
there, aud having enpusd, proceeded to
refill it, O"ly the Plainest dresses, such
a. had worn in the morning, with a
good supply Of underclo;hs., went into
II. The next day | purchased n cheap
shaw, plain straw bonnet, cotton gloves.
leather boots, and sun bonnet. went
10 n barber. aud sacrificed all my braids
and hands TO have crop of short curIs
left round nv face. Having informed nv
nurse that | ~s going to pay a short
vsit 20 friend who lived in tho same
town where | hsd 80 long gone 20 school,
I sent :or a carriage, donnsd nv new
plain dress, and was ready for my ad.
ventures. Once, while dressing. it struck
me ths, it might he more heroic TO remain
and bear tho prosecutions Of the step
mother. But then-surpos- she did not
P~rsecu's me! To be sure, every step.
ms'he' sho figured IN nv iavori,e class
OF literature WAS mixture Of wilch and
demon, whose sols delight corsi.,sd In
tho torture Of their predecessors otfsprinp.
but sur-ly'my father could marry only a
lady, and--and-.l cut ihs reflection short,
tied my bonnet strings with jerk. and
won't down stairs. rhe Carriage waited,
and ] was ~hirled away. After dismiss.
ing the hacknsn. I took a ticket. not fo,
the village Of K, as NV nurse snp
posed, but for PhIad~Iphis. where |
hoped to he lost in = crowd. The mex,
subject wasa name. N, trunk and cIorbe.
were NAKED X A J. fer Kx,nsrine
hrn"ld Jameson. but ] decided that Kmty
An" Jr"k' wSs much more suitable f.,
nv new position. | had jaa finished
pc srusing "R.ssnsbos." aud WAS d-iermin
sd. like Charles. to sink my identity iu
the mos, menial occupation but how Z
! could not groom horses, that va. v.rv
sisar did not know the frat prin .ipIss
OF co king, bouss~"rk would spoil nv
hands. aud disgust the hero. who ~s,. O
c"ursa. to come. somehow. to nv rescue
would bs nursery maid Cbll.
dr.n were, to hs sue. rather new
subjects, but l could manage that; and
visions Of tie ,ihil, dressed chpruhs I had
ss.n ~ith the nurse. ir the Park, flutered
before nv n,ird's e,a.
In tho mean tima'~I hsd eaten no
breskfas, in NV pxci,-n. .nt, was Hot and
dusty with this Tios in Jnly, and found I
~~s the subject for more masculine eve.
Than were altogether agrse.b.e To he
stared out OF countensncs in = railroad
car wa. b, no ,nssns the style Of corr,ing
to whih INV heroine. were accustomed.
and had mght.n veil. Nv cheeks
grew bot. and feIi vsrv nervous. I had
never travelled alone before; suppose one
Of those impudsut men should speak to
mel Horror stricken Al the idea, Idrsw
Mrs. Henry Wood'. last novel from nv
es,pst.bag. aud sesolu,sIy began TO read.
| was already m''ss sway kom sl my
own woes, wondering md sym ps,hizing
10 those ~ the perse,u,sd ioveiiness i'm