The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-08-30
MISS LRScELlES' DISAPPEAR
ANCE.


raj cry. ar.
I'm going to disappear answered Miss
Lascclcs; and it was the only answer her Gu
rious friends could get from her, let them try
As they would. At every fresh sllrmlSe sh.
shook her head and smiled mysteriously. 81
am going to disappear" she persisted.
Miss Lascelles kept her word. She did dis
.nnear. ard nobody knew whittier. In fact
there was nobody to find out from, no one tc
whom she was responsible for her comingS
and goinCs. An orphan without near RELATIVES
an hcrcss, moreover,-She was entire ms
tress of herself, and had she proposed to &c
10 the moon, so far as this earthly planet Is
concerned, there would have been nothing to
finder But for certain atmospheric diilicul
ties being in the way of such 4 tour, her &C
guaintances would have been inclined to Sus.
rect It was the very one she was making at
nrpsan,-that out-ofthc-way sort of thing cN-
nc!ly tallying with her oddly; for, by com,
,,piI consent. Nina LaSCellCs was dubbed
odd. :" bright sensible, attractive, certainly,
tut for all that she had a very odd streak
about her.
BIZ, where had Miss LaScclcs gone? Not
quite As far as the moon, and yet To region
almost rs remote from the sphere OF her dear
five hundred friends One day there had
CHANGED to present itself to her recollection
thc picture of a certain wcathcrbcaten, gam
lrclrOOted houses up among the hiIls ana
rocks of one Of the Northern States, where
she had passed the happiest summer Of her
lie Miss LascelleS thought she would like TO
t-v if that old time COnld not be brought back
again To be sure, she had been only twelve
then, and the tastes of twelve and tWenty-ont
are apt to be somewhat different; but at least
!, would be u novelty. She was tired and ov-
,Tt II nil
every step of which she knew so YEARLY well.
Urielly, She had set her heart on the expert.
rcnt and when this young lany set her heart
Upon doing anything, it was very likely to be
done.
Besides, it was not simply her own incllna.
ton she consulted in this choice. Among
her poor pcOplc-tor poor people were one OF
hiisS I4asccllcs OdditieS-wcrc two young
english orphans, brother and a sister, whom
she had discovered one day in Il crowded, un
wholesome city back lane, where they were
BREATHING dirt, and cheating their young
growing, hungry muscles with sort of re
IGse which it was the highest strain Of cour
teay to call food. No wonder if their poor
cheeks became palcr every day, and that the
bny's strength was hardly sufficient to earn
Inc pittiancc which just kept the life in his
sister and himself These children were the
special iavorItcs Of Miss Lascclles, whether
because Of their singular attachment for one
another, or because they were orphans with
10 ties Of kindred, even as She herself was
and marking their increasing dcliCaCy, it oc-
CURED to her that to take them out of the
close heat of city summer into the free air
aud life in which she herself had once thrivcn,
would be no bad way of spending the months
,sualy allotted 10 The busy idlcnc,s of water
ng places.
SO, with her two young prOtcgcS, Mis- La
,2clcs disappeared, to come TO the surface
gain in the little town OF Scarborough. The
Id gray house and the scattering village ap-
cared 10 have undergone rs little change as
the eternal mountain, themselves that closed
around
"Is this place really in The world, | won
der" said Ms I.asCclcs to herself with a
smile, surveying il. 1T seems to be ont of
Times way, at any rate. don't believe a
creature ha, been born or died in it since
vas here | can almost fancy myself the slip
o, % May-polc was then, with eyes several
sizes too large for my face, and Il skin the col.
or O.. the butter Mr., IIuchins is workingI
here"
Niss Lasccle, laughed again at the rcco.
sCtiOn. Il was only a recollection, and she
could afford to laugh 1T it now, for there was
lear cheek and the iull yet firm and free
gurt, suggested anything but a Maypolc |
Good Mrs lIutchins, herself as little changed
as al the rest, would have been astonshcd to |
earn that this handsome young woman was
40 other than the sallow little hcircss she had
shaken her head over 50 doubtiully nine years |
before. such an idea never occurred to her |
'Ithcr that it was that particular hcircSs, or
NY hclrc,s at all, for it was not precisely Il
Saratoga wardrobe that Nina had brought to |
and then, from some misun- |
Outstanding at the outset. Mrs. lIutchins had |
Ken up the notion that her dodgers were rel. |
q .vc.. Mi, Ln,Ccllc, did not correct an |
error which wa, So very convenient to her
purpose, since, under y strange name, she
you'd escape Il good deal Of the watching
md gossip which, in her own proper person,
he would have had to encounter. So Jimmy
l.d Kitty were privately drilled into their
.cw relationship by Aunt Nina" who wa.
.no%n to the nCighbprhood rs Miss Nccny |
RAFT and taken al the valuation of her cotton |
GOWNS and gypsy straw, attracted no notice
more burdcnsomc than nm admiring glance
rom some young farmer whom she passed in
tcr daily rambic- with the children. The
illagers, indeed, Opincd that She WAS a little
lncitul-which was their way of calling her
odd but the verdict once pronounced,
-oublcd themselves no more about the mat
r, for iancifulncS4, in all its varieties, is not
- high a msdcmcnnor in country rs in city
yes.
But, accustomed 90 homage, change, amuSe-
acnt, she speedily found this monotonOus
itc "a irightiul bore On the contrary, she
IA not find it monolonous, for every day
IrOught her some novelty; from milking and
utter and bed making, 10 skctchng, rowing,
'imbin-, bcrrying, there was scarcely pos
i.Jilily Of the country which she left untried.
and watching jimmy puny muscles harden,
md little Kitty's white cheeks take a color
kc the wild roses in the hedge bricrs, she
actually found a more interesting daily uccu-
patton than noting The progress Of Irritation,
~ undressing Mrs. A at the hops Very
arrange taste no doubt, but tastes are never to
De- scCoupted tor
But ii Miss LasccllcS enjoyed herself, what
,hall be said Of the two poor young things
hat like good fairy, she had carried away
rom squalor and privation: Truly, to them
his was another world in its utter unlike
less TO anything they had ever known.