Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-02-28

| Feb. N.-This is dreadful. know
where the ring is. 1 can't tell.
can't even write it down in nv diary,
How could shep oh, how could shei
My own sweet! OH to have been So
deceived! 1t makes me sick! And ]
1 must go with her just the same, OF
they'll suspect her.
We were walking up and down the
hall together, reading our Virgil, and
my arm was round her waist, and all
at once there was something hard slip
ping under my fingers there, something
queer: aud before knew, l had felt it.
And | said, "Oh, Maria, you've got
hump comingr' She snatehed her
self away, and faced me, and in anoth-
er moment knew what it was-onIv I
couldn't believe it. She had sewed it
into her waist-lining, and the diamond
had cut the thread and worked round.
And she saw I knew.
"Oh, how could you? how could
you?" l exclaimed, and she began to
cry and ran outdoors. 1 followed her,
and there, shivering on the piazza, and
her teeth chattering, she begged and
begged me not to tell. And promised
her if she would give it back-put it
back-I never would. And never will.
But oh, [ do hope nobody will ask
me. Till to-day, 1 never in all my life
have told lie, and I'm afraid should.
But, oh, have lost her! l have lost
her! ] never shall believe in her again!
Feb. % The last day of winter. But
it will always be winter in my heart.
March IL have had such dreadful
week. 1t was impossible to write in
my diary. 1 didn't have it. The de-
tective, who talked with all the girls
little, when it came SOphy's turn, made
her say that if twas it wouldn't sur
prise her.
1 can see Sophy saying it, with all
her mysterious mods and winks; and
the reason why was because talked so
much about Miss Palmer's ring, and
she had read in my diary a page, some
where about the middle of January,
where I said, "l'll have that ring, or
die in the attempt" but somebody's
coming had hindered her reading any
more.
How mean! oh, how horribly mean!
and after all papa has done for the
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the street, and educating her just as he
does his own daughter!
Well, the man didn't do anything
about it till next day, thinking It
over, and then he came back. Miss
Palmer, meanwhile, after school opened,
made a few remarks to US all, SAYING
that, although she valued the ring, her
sole object now was to learn which one
of her girls was capable of the act, that
she might do her best to bring her to a
sense of her sin, and help her to sin no
more.
I didn't dare to look up or look
across the aisle; all could do was to
cry. Sophy, who is bell-monitOr, went
the door when the bell tinkled, and
sntly the detective came in and
>-'7'l. 800, =. teachers room.
announced the lsr,e sai6 oh Il
Now gentlemen. 90 - S1,tS ,SI1Ion =; -
order, and each man ~ Z, - =,
property" When the We lot
the people came with rus9
more terrible than an army with bar
ners. They came bulging against th
fence, and knocked it down for 10
yards. | was overturned and nearl
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property, and thus the fraudulent rae
was broken up by an exhibition of tn
most extraordinary courage. He di
that day what it would have require
1000 armed men to have effected. Al
this was effected by the presence an
action of one man, and without tn
drawing of one drop of blood. A Ger
tain knowledge that In one even
streams of blood would have flOwe
effected this great and worthy object
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