The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-03-23
Lost Lima,
Or
THE BITTER AND THE SWEET,
A Tale Of Two Continents.
BY MRS. NINA Law

CHAPTER XXXyIIL-[CoN
How did it happen, Uncle Cristo,
that my WIZ was brought here when a
babe and left with you all these years
And did not you know what those pa
pers were to herr"
II tell you lust how t was, or least
wise just how I was oh us.
"You see, we have been here for
these many years gone by, now, and
have alters lived peaceably enough all
our lives; but sorrow will come to them
who try to do good as well as to them
that do evil. When my old woman was
girl, she used to live in st. Louis.
Missouri, and she worked in a doctors
family: they thought n sight on her,
and when We got married and came
here on the farm they missed her
awfully. Well, You see, one day, arter
we had been here two or three years,
this same old doctor that she lived
with came here with little baby, and
that little baby was our lost Lima.
The doctor gave me a roll of papers,
and said that they We're to be given to
the girl on her eighteenth birthday
he said that the mother died when the
baby was born there in st. Louis, and
that they were English people and
their home was in England; they had
come to America to see the country,
and soon arter the baby was born It's
father had to go home Immediately on
some important business: of course,
the baby was too young to go so far,
| and he just left it at the doctors.
A1 I fatl 81,
gland, bat he never got there, for he
was drowned at sea; the boat, with
everybody on it, was lost, and no one
ever heard of it since; you see, there
was terrible storm on the ocean, and
the boat was kinder old.
We'll, this doctor heard all about
it, and after awhile his woman died
and of course he could not keep the
strangers baby any longer, and then
he brought her to US; he said the name
was Lenora Churchill"
What Churchill? An ancient, hon
ored English family, and have often
heard my mother speak Of them; but
go on, uncle.
well, that was her name; leastyise
that was the name on the pile Of paper
but the doctor all that we might call
her what we pleased, and Of course she
| seemed like one of our own, and we
| called her Lima Rice.
Ny poor little darling Yes, that
was tn name she gave when she was
sent to my home; she has very strange
history, indeed
yes; il almost broke our heart;
| when she was taken away from us; but
[ reckon it was all for the best, or il
| would not have been so. This place is
lonely enough without her, and now
| that she IS your wife and the mother O
| your little giri, war; mt it makes YOU
sore at hear to lose T, but we have
to put up with such in this world"
Ray could make n reply, but pressed
his little girl close to his bosom, and
| YOU could see the tears in his eyes. He
| had written the old doctor a. Michigan
| Iity to write his mother and tell hel
| that he had b en- found, and would
soon be with her in England. H
| thought it bes5 not to write her him
self, for fear the shock would be toe
| great for her present feeble con ii5ion
Early in the Iall, Ray babe ali his old
American friends good-bJ, and, with
| his little girl and a good trustv man
he left the bitter scenes of the past ant
| sailed for England