The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-09-21

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the audience assured them that it wa.
not his fault an entertainment differ
ent from that laid down in the pro
gramme had been offered them thi:
evening; that he hoped to meet then
again tomorrow evening, when he
would resume the subject, and, he trust
ed, convince the most skeptical that nei
ther himself nor Mrs Leffingwel urged
claims of any kind which they were un
able to satisfactorily established.
doubted if they would let him go
but they did, l presume on account o.
Mrs Leff1ngwell.
The next morning the Lefingwell's
we're gone. They had taken the mid
night train down. If they had waited
they might have had Wynn's company
for he went to Boston on the morning
train. As he had arranged previously
to go at this time, and his usual stopping
place was the Revere House, the drama
of the preceding evening did not proba-
bly, influence him in those eircumstan-.
ces; but it may have furnished the mo-
tive which prompted him to inquire OF
the clerk if Mr. Paul Williams were
among the guests, and the reply being
Affirmative it may have induced him to
seek out that gentleman.
The result was the confirmation in
each particular of the items elected from
Tufts.
Janet Ware was the daughter of Mr.
Williams only sister, who had married
and with her husband removed to Ill
inois. Their sole child was Janet, and
when she had attained her twelfth year
both her parents fell victims to that fear
full scourge, cholera. A reighbor had
taken home the child and written to Mr.
Williams letter which never reached
its destination. A year afterwards Mr.
and Mrs Lefingwell, on a tour through
the Western States, had accidentally en-
countered Janet and discovered in her
such susceptibility of the odic influence
as a desirable acquisition. She was timid
and easily wrought upon, and the mythe
of kindship, invented on the spur of the
moment, had been overpowering.
The child had had a tolerable hard
disipline, though it might have been
worse. For the six months and more
she had been wandering about, good
care had been taken that she find no op-
portunity of escape, and entire seclusion,
except when under the eye of Mr. and
Mrs Lefingwell, secured to her at least
a degree of immunity of bad influences.
Mr. Williams was induced to accom-
pany Wynn on his return to Epping,
and when he saw Janet, who bore her
mothers name, her strong resemblance
to that mother, was to him convincing
proof that his sisters child stood before
him.
l have since seen full-length portrait
by Sully of Mrs Ware before her mar
riage. l should unhesitatingly have
it an Incompatible likeness
of Janet, or, as she is now, Mrs Wynn
There we're just the same large, shadowy,
violet eyes, fringed with lashes of un-
common length and richness; the same
low, pearly brow and profuse, brown,
waving hair, with golden lights on it;
the same faint tinge on the cheek, just
like the inside of a sea-shell; the same
curve of the bright red lips; the same
poise of the head on the white, slender
neck. A little sad would say the face
is, but Elinor. Wynn's sister, now my
wife, affirms that Janet is as cheerful
little sprite as ever gladdened a mans