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

Not more so than your course /
sacrificing yourself and all that yo
possessed to this child's cause"
BAT that was the will Of Hcave
for me-" Miss Adele said, with dee
seriousness. Il could not do les:
Bat she added. after a moment. "w
do indeed need u friend
ID you suppose that would tres
pass longer upon your privacy were i
not SOP l asked earnestly. NAY
trust me and you shall have no caust
to regret it,"
Then Miss Adele spoke ont like tn,
large-souled woman that she was: -
will trust you, sir, for my little Eva
sake
Matters proved quite as bad as
feared. They were at the end Of theil
money, and no immediate prospect
for getting more opened before them.
Miss Adele, whose musical gifts had
been recognized as pre- -emin,nt in hel
native village, had thought it would
be easy enough to secure pupils in a
great city like New York. but alas!
from bitter experience she had learned
that this commercial Mecca toward
which so many young aspirants for
success turn their footsteps held but
disappointment for her.
The end of a long discussion of the
pros and cons involved resulted in
Miss Adelle's accepting assistance
from me as a loan, and ] in turn.
promised her pupils from among my
friends, taking upon my shoulders the
doubtful task of coercing all the IA
theirs and mothers of my acquaintance
into giving their children over to her
training, beginning with my own
married sister. And it was fortunate
that l made my beginning thAre. else it
is probable that should Internationally
failed in my undertaking, FIR my sis.
ter, Mrs. Merwin-informedm me scorn.
fully when laid my plan lefore her:
Il a not be thankful enough, Tom,
that | am the first one to whom you
unfold your Qiixotic schema, for moth.
ing could be more ruinous to a girls
prospects, situated as Miss Adele is,
than to have a bachelor like yourself
going around advocating her cause
just take me to see the girl, and if she
is not a mere adventures you may
count upon my doing what l a for
her.
That my sister was who'll satisfied
with Miss Adele will go without the
when l tell you tina; she took
her home within the week rs musical
governess to her w chillren, and
personally solicited patronage for her
the ''dear five hundred
friends"
In less than three months from the
day that first discovered Eva, Miss
found herself with more work
upon her hands than she could easily
to, and l found N.Y.
self-but no. l will tell you
about that later, for now comes
the most remarkable part of this
narrative (and there is nothing so
very remarkable in the story of a free
man who is often thrown into the
of q good and beautiful woman
in love with her) and that
which emphasizes the fact that truth
IS stran ger than fiction.
One day there drew up before my
door the we'll known couipage
# one of the city's most successful
Dan kers, and from it alightcd a gen.
Ieman who eagerly requested to see
Miss A lelle. The result of that visit
VAS nothing snort of the restoration
4 little Eva to her parents and home
+ she was proven to be the long-los
md sadly-n burned daughter of the
stolen by a former servant,
he only Object that could be discov.
red TO extort mo ey for her return.
Il order probably to render the
cheme successful the child had been
AIKEN far away where it would be diff
'ult to trace her. The mysterious
leath OF the woman had interferec
With the original plan and left no
lue by which the agonized parents
possibly discover their child,
md long since she had been given w
or dead.
In the course Of its progress from
'erson to person. the story of the
Dung music teacher and her little
II rye had reached the banker and
is wife. who FASTENED to convice
themselves that E;a was their long.
ost darling; the diamond crescent
which had been stolen for that yer,
purpose no doubt furnishing evidence,
more had been needed than the
great resemblance to heI
l. is needless to say hal the CRATE.
parents insisted upon adopting
Idelle into their hearts and homes ms
daughter no less than their legiti.
iate offspring; and for me they de.
lar d eternal Friendship.
Wi h this l should have been quite
under ordinary circum-
but
''Nnnscns",' roguishly says Adele.
no is looking ovcr my shoulder as ]
rite, ''what a commonplace e,ding