Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-11
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qE3 9suPPSS9uf 20 y AoohCii' u uCa Sditt' INV
ing the little fall of wet leather Yo his
surprise tie the lid ID liffted the lock yas
have thought 1T would have kept toggeth-
en- like thiss withithe LOCK- broken, ," he
said, .glancng inside and seeing q CON-
fused mass OF clothing in hall wet and
very mixed condition. II think YOU
must be mistaken about the exact place
the gentleman was.f he added. .'there
is nothing in trunk of child's clothing,
tum, led and wet like this, to attract a
mans attention particularly" .5t,a
But it did. anyway. Why, father.
don't Iknow every inch of the beach
by hearth? and.I saw hihf fetery time
looked up, and always in this one spot, y
he sad, positively. Il, #!as j III bass. :,
81 presume your, every time all
came within less than five minutes
Mr.. Anderson said, smiling at his earn
estness. .'The gentleman did not hurt
the trunk by looking at it,, even if it was
for the length of time YOU fancy. Now
let us take it up to the house. ~ IL. 2.
The child stood on the doorstep as
they came up the sandy, grass bordered
path. her great eyes shining like stars,
and her coral lips parted and eager. al
40, am SO; glad.n'' she cried, clap
ping her hands, and then growing sud
denly grave as she Remembered about
her mo- heraher pale, beautiful mother,
lying SO fearfully straightandstin in the
darkened front room., "s4.9 al let.-lE5
She followed them in and kpelt down
on the floor by the trunk, while Mrs.
Anderson took out the garments one by
one and shook and folded them. There
was few articles of woman S under
clothing, a book of, engraviugs( and a
small volume OF Scott S Poems, with
''Genetieve' pencillcd in clear, ele-
giant, masculine hand, on the fly leaf.
The remainder OF the contents consisted
of child's clothing, which Viola 3readi-
ly recognized. The book, of poems,
too, she said her mother had told her
once was to be hers some day, BECAUSE
her papa had bought it. ..........:g
| But though they looked longan care
fully, going over every article three or
four times. there was not a scrap of pa
per or a!line written anywhere among
them all that they could find And SO
the childs name remained still "a secret
for aught the little trunk revealed Only
one thing they found, beside,ga bit OF
knife blade about an inch long, broken
short off, tEiia jI"-. 'h' -
Viola cried bitterly and would not be
comforted. What most children would
scarcely have noticed was something
dark and terrible to her; the more so,
doubtless, from the circumstances under
which it had been made known to her.
Death, so fearful and repellant to every
child. was made more dreadful still II
her, for it had taken away at the same
I time her mothers life, and her own
name, leaving her doubly orphaned.
When Mr.. Anderson told her of the men
whom he had met on the shore, she
stopped crying and looked up, her eyes
I flashing through her tears. 49,. ..
g Ii hadnseen them they should have
told me about.my mothcr;" she cried,
vehemently.
''But they did not know, DEAR Mrs.
Anderson said, gently. Il. =: co.. se.i
=" They did.-hc did, anyway. know;
because when we went out on deck, and
she saw him she grew, O, so white! and
Captain Waite led her back to our cabin
again, and she said something about his
being there, and then she cried and the
pretty color never came into her cheeks
again. - ...... ..f,f..s.-,. g.: .
.T'sBut who was it that she SAW" per.
sisted Ralph. Il a'ati'1' '>'1As'.'
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