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4 Tale Of Two Continents.
RI MRS. NINA LAWSON.

CHAPTER NXXVIII.-[C
"How did it happen, Uncle Cristo,
that my wife was brought here when a
babe and left with you oil these years?
And did not you know what those pa.
pers we're to her?"
"Ill tell you Just how t was, or least
wise just how t was told 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 we'll as to them
thst do evil When my old woman was
q girl, she used to live ia st. Louis,
Missouri. and she worked in a doctors
family; they thought sight on her,
and when we got married and came
here on the farm they missed her
awfullv. Well, you see, one day, arte1
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 aroll of papers,
and said that they were 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 its
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.
Well, Lina's father started for En-
gland, but 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.
"Well, this doctor heard ali about
il, 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 I have often
heard my mother speak of them; but
20 on, uncle"
"Well, that was her name; leastwise
that was the name on the pile of paper ;
but the doctor said that we might call
her what we pleased, and Of course she
seemed like one of our own, and we
called her Lima Rice"
my poor little darling! Yes, that
was the name she gave when she was
sent to my home; she has very strange
history, indeed"
"Yes; it almost broke our hearts
when she was taken away from US; but
I reckon it was all for the best, or it
would not have been so. This place is
lonely enough without her, and now
that She is your wife and the mother OF
your little girl, warrant it makes you
sore at heart to lose her, but we have
to put up with s1ch in this world"
Ray could make no 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 at Michigan
City to write his mother and tell her
that he had been found, and would
soon be with her in England. He
thought it best not to write her him
self, for fear the shock would be too
great for her present feeble condition.
Early in the fall, Ray bade all his old
American friends good-by, and, with
his little girl and good, trusty man,
he left the bitter scenes of the past and
sailed for England.