The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-03

flee before the fire, warm and com
Portable except for the effects Of he
fright, l had time to see that he.
features and expression were those o
a young princess of the blood. clear
cut, exquisite and truthful. She wa!
as far removed from the youthful I'M
fortunates brought up in vice and
crime as IS Heaven from earth.
The gist of her story was that she
was a great mans daughter, and the
only way she would ever find her
papa was by the crescent. which he
would recognize. She lived with
Miss Adele, a music teacher, and
they had very little money. Miss
Adele had cried that morning be.
cause their coal was nearly gone and
she had no money to buy more.
"When Adele had gone out | put
the crescent on. and came to find papa.
for l knew that if he saw that he
would buy Us some more wood aud
coal" the child coniled to me earn
estly.
hailed a cab at the conclusion of
tho to1a and ,o,t ,ba obiId 70 tho
street and number given me. A tall.
graceful woman of twenty-five or
| her, hont vnIro,nod ne with aro.
ton.
..Wbr INV 5oor E,o- sbe orica
o~losnior tho ob;,d +o ha,. ..rboro boro
Won hanno Ih,ve hoor almost c,.ozr
with arxiatv about vopn
Ruf ius, at This monapt Miss Adalle
capgbt .ioht # mo and dra WING her.
self nm with dirni,v sbe waited for an
EXPLANATION of my presence there
STATING the case brjchv 7 asked her 70
tell mo something ahnnt tbo chila
~ will sir" she said mo,iopinr
me to be seated. with grace 7 have
rarely seen copaled ,.rhn sole gua,.
diapsbip Of lttle Fvo fell IN mo
STRANGELY" she BEGAN. a am the
daughter of n clemvman. and while
teaching music in NV native v~iI,,gei in
the West il happened that one winters
nioh, some wear. sinco--a nirht NOT
unlikn what this PROMISES IN bo.-m,.
father and were star,led bv means
q, ON. Inrostir,tio, showoa
a woman and child Roth were nearly
f,oz.n and tha woman o,oo IN tho
heated room, swooncd. We summoned
a physician, but she recovered con-
only 10 lose il aroin until
we found that she was diving, Toward
the last the poor creatnre muttered
wildly and incohercnt)y and seemed
to be in mortal fear of punishment for
some rreat crime. Just At the last.
however. she became entirely rational.
and made frantic efforts with her dy-
breath to tell US all about the child.
but the most we could UNDER
stand was that Eva belonr rcd r.
wealthy parents, and that something
would prove her identity. Sewed ND
in the rags wrapped about the baby
Girl we discovered the diamond cres.
cent, which is strangely engraved in
ciphers, pnintelliribIe to a stranger
II, dnubt signifcort opourh ,n tho
owners, whom we naturally supposed
TO be little Eva's parents, Tor this was
evidently what the poor woman meant
to convey.
NV father and I accented the trust
thrown mon lis by that mvsterions
Heath rs n commission Of Haven't
said Eya's Guardian ANGEL. with
soulful smile, which disclosed a rich
be autiful nature, ..and we set about to
find the parents. For q Ions time ve
advertised. hut 10 no nurnoso Many
REPLIES came, but to none of these did
our little Eva belong. AT last. after
nv fathers death, which occurred
.hree wears ago, certain that Eya's
parents were not to be found in the
. est, | sod my roper there. COM
ng 10 New York in the hope of obt ain.
ne pupils here, and at the anne lime
good legal talent to push the work of
establishing nv darlinr's identify,
We have not been very successful so
felt mvsclf in = d;,emma uoro w,s
beautiful voupg woman who had owl
lentlv sucriticcd all her worldly ,oods
O what she believed q divinely.an.
pointed mission and for all t,on
lad at this moment neither money nor