The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-01-16

when NOrah came out to look for
Tony.
Bat jlst as We got into the path
Ne saw Sue Lane coming. She ask
Ell us TO come mp to her house aud
see new snnshade her amt had
sent her from New York.
June said We couldn't 20 then,
tor we were in a great hurry to go
down aud get some tin-types taken
to send TO her uncle, who was Gov.
ernor OF Massachusetts.
OF course ii wasn't true, for father
is the only uncle June ever had,
but Sue believed il, aHa it Just
took her down, tell you.
After Sue went on, June said
why couldn't We 20 aud get some
pictures; so we did go, and VIC had
such tunl
BY the time we got home, we
had forgotten all about Tony.
Wien We were almost at the gate,
Bridget rushed out TO meet us.
"Ainh, thin! yez haven't the
child wild yez, at all ut allr
She expected we had Tony with
NJ. by this time, mother aud
Norah aud the hired man had comc
out.
Norah was crying and wringing
her hands. Mother WAS just us
white as II ghost, aud all she SAID,
was:
"Wbere is the baby, Rye''
Her voice sounded just like one
crazy. | was scared, | eau tell you.
| couldn't speak Il word. 1t all
rushed over me, the awful thing |
had done TO hide our dear little
baby.
But juno laughed.
81 guess Tony is not far of in
the woods, Aunt Charlotte. | saw
her going down that way while
ago"
Mother never looked at June,
but said TO me in that dreadful
tone:
"Go and get her, RyeH
/ ran, you cun believe. | never
hurried SO IN ms life.
June followed. | believe she
was afraid to stay there with moth.
or. WE'LL eau hardly tell it,
even now-when VIC reached the
"denr the baby was gone. never
had such "a feeling in my life rs
when l came upon the place where
we had left Tony, and found she
wasn't there. | sat down on the
moss aud looked AT june. She
didn't laugh then. She just turn,
ed around aud said:
"Rye, l believe they'll hang me,
for l've killed your little sister"
| didu't dare go back to tell
moiher Tony was gone. | think j
bad n wild notion of going aud
Jumping into the river.
But before | could move the hired
man appeared. lie saw that we
were frightened aud that Tony was
gone. He just grabbed June by
the arm aud shook her as hard us
he could.
Then he SAID:
SNOW tell where that baby is,
you wicked little wretchm
SO June told, as well as he could,
all about 1t.
Jerry-hIs name was Jerry-just
started for the house like race.
horse. don't know what he told,
nor what they said, for June aud l
81 ole up the back stairs and hid in
the attic. never passed such an
afternoon. | could bear them run
ming all through the house at first ;
then everything got still, only l
could hear some one crying bitter.
~ somewhere.
Once, IA carriage drove up, aud l
saw father get out.
About dark, | saw the doctor
four old doctor from R-), come
up the walk. | wondered, in a daz-
ell sort OF way, who WAS sick. l
did not speak nor June did not
speak all that AFTERNOON.
By aud by, it grew dark. There
seemed to be more noise down
stairs. We could hear voices and
steps. | opened the door and crept
ont on the stairs. The house was
all lighted up.
In a minute l heard Norah say
ing:
ats here sue is, ma'am, safe aud
sound. Can't yer see her, ma'am-
yer own little Tony p
| can't tell you how / felt. | |
know rushed down stairs and into
mothers room. Nobody noticed |
me, Tor mother was lying in bed |
aud | thought size was dead. She
never opened her eyes, nor stirred.
There were two doctors there, and
father and Aunt Helen. Nobody |
spoke to me; even Norah pushed
me away. | felt like murderer.
l thought was one.
l went up TO our room aud told
June that Tony was found, but
that We had killed mother. Aud
June never spoke. | cried all that
night. l couldn't sleep. l just
cried and cried.
The queerest thing was June,
though, not u word did she say.
She just sat there and stared at !
nothing. couldn't help feeling |
afraid when | looked at her,