Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-08-08
MISS Z LASCELLES'S DISAPPEAR.
ANCE.

CARE you going to Saratoga, Nina ~
"To Long Branch, them"
t'Nop
"ToThe White Hillss"
'Nop-s
"Then rherear you goingr was the
general cry.
81 am going, to disappear" answered
Miss Lascelles. aud it was the only an
swer her curious friends could get from
her, letthem try as they would. At every
fresh surmise she shook her head and
smiled mysteriously. II am going to dis
appearIi she persisted.
Miss Lascelles kept her word. She did
disappear, and nobody could find out
whittier. In fact, there was no one to find
out from, no one to whom she was in the
least-degree responsible for her comings
and g0ings. An orphan without near rel
atives-an heiress, moreover-she was en-
tire. mistress of herself, and had she pro.
posed to go to the moon, so far as this
earthly planet is concerned there would
have been nothing to hinder. But for
certain atmospheric difficulties being in
the way of such tour, her acquaintance
would have been inclined to suspect il
was the very one she was making at pres.
ent-rthat outof-the-way sort of thing eX.
actly tallying with her oddity; for, by
common consent, Nina Lascelles was
dubbed "odd;" bright, sensible, at.
tractive, certainly, but for all that with an
odd streak about her
But where had Miss Lascelles gone?
Not quite as far as the moon, and yet to a
region almost as remote from the sphere
of her dear five hundred friends. One
day there had CHANGED to present itself to
boz sgt,t sott ,,fn tair .,
weather beaten, gambTel-roofed house up
among the rocks and hills of one of the
Northern States, where she had passed
the happiest summer of her life. Miss
LasceAes thought she would like to try
if that old time could not be brought back
again. To be sure, she had been only
twelve then, and the tastes of twelve and
twenty-one are aptto be somewhat differ
ent; butat least it would be a novelty
She was tired and over-tired of the pre-
scribed pleasure tread-mill, every step OF
which she knew so YEARLY well. Briefly,
she had set her heart on the experiment
and when this young lady set her heart
on doing anything, it was very likely ,to
be done.
Besides, it was not simply her own in
clination she consulted in this choice
Among her poor people-for poor people
were one of Miss Lacelles' oddities-were
two young English orphans, brother and
sister, whom she had discovered one day
in crowded, ounwholesome city back
lane, where they were breathing distilled
dirt and. cheating their young, growing
hungry muscles with sort of refuse
which it was the highest strain of cour
tesy to call food. No wonder if theil
poor cheeks became paler every day, ant
hot hn. % narfh HlXy
cient TO earn the pittance which Just KEEP
the life In his sister and himself. These
children were special favorites with Miss
Lascelles, whether because of their singu
lar attachment to one another, or because
they we're orphans with no ties of kindred
even as she herself was; and marking
their increasing delicacy, it occurred tC
her that to take them out of the close hea
of city summer into the free air anC
life in which she herself had once thriver
would be no bad way of spending the
months usually allotted to the busy idle
ness of fwatering place existence.
So, with her two young proteges, Mis-
LasCelles disappeared, to come to the sur
face again in the little town of StonebOr
ough. The old gray house and the scat
terlng village appeared to have undergone
rs little change as the eternal mountain
themselves that closed around.
wonder ~ said Miss T9scelles TO herself
with smile, surveying it. 1t seems t
besout of Times way, at any rate. don
believe a creature has been born or die(
in it since was here. | could almost fan
cv myseIfstiII the slim ofa May-pole / wa
then with ewes several sizes TOO large fo
INV faca and a slyin the color Of the hut
tey NISs Hntcbirs is yorEing tbere !,
Mise TasceIles lougbed AGAIN of tb
rocoiloctian ft ,,,as t57aI, q Secnllectior
and sbe couid afrnrd 70 iSSu%b Of II now
for there vas certoinl~ no bntter color i,
tbe Glow on The cInary eay ychoo,, io anJ tSe fniI
vet firm and G rrsa 90 f,oure e'S, s,%meoted "a% @ anv
3hinr Int n Mav.noie' W Goods s Mr. 'T untnI %
;ns 3erSolf as i}tf o,'O,od an t,l