News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-05-05

| Une OUuer cuIuFen before ner Talk
about it.
The pretty white clothes she had
on when she came | put away. They
were of tlrr very Snest quality. but
all sOiled and tumbied, as il she had
worn them two or three davs. The
only mark on them was an embroid-
cred "L" on the underclothes.
The first night she made her ap-
pearance we were in st. Louis, far
enough away from Fayetteville.
| Tipgman had toll her that her name
was Sylphine. and she obeyed him in
that as in everything else. She was
announced as "Sylphine, the fairy of
the ring" and ! dressed her in a
gauze dress, with silver spangles, and
let all her golden curls down below
her waist, setting little tinsel crown
on her head, and giving her wand.
| did not dare to let her see how sor-
ry | was for her as she shivered and
trembled, but set her little white face
with a steady look dreadful in n child.
She was the strangest child l ever
saw-so timid, yet so proud. She
would not let any one see her cry. but
in the night | could hear her sobbing
and whispering:
"Oh, papa! mamma! Oh, Walter,
come and take me homer But she
would never tell ME a word to help
me to find them. She firmly believed
Tingman would kill her if she did.
Never did we have d child that
learned so fast, and when her first
fear of the horses was over she loved
them. 1t was the prettiest thing to
see her in the stables, and the great
horses letting her caress them. and
whinnying when they saw her.
But underall herpride and striving
to keep up, the child was pining
away She ate so little it was won
derful she lived, and she cried at
night more than she slept The pret-
ty round limbs grew thinner, and her
face was so pale | had to put rouge
on her cheeks when l dressed her for
the ring.
The audiences went wild over her
She was so small, so graceful. that
she did seem like a fairy, and Ting
man depended on her beauty and
light, graceful dancing, and did not
try to train her to any feats of
strength. Her horse was coal black,
and his trappiHgs were always OF
crimson and gold, to throw out the
fairy-like costume of white and silver
she always wore, and that suited her
golden hair and large brown eyes.
Well, ma'am, she had been a year
in the circus, and | loved her as if she
was my own child, when she began to
drOOp so much more than before that
l was sure she was dying. Every
night her sObs grew more pitiful, and
she was wasting away dreadfully. |
was so troubled | could not bear it
any longer, and one day / took her
for Il walk into some clover fields, not
far away. You may be sure l wasn't
allowed to take her out of sight of
the tents. But we were out of hear
ing, when | said:
Sylphine, look around you. No
body can come near enough to hear
us, without our seeing him in this
open field Now tell me, who is your
father, and where does he live?'
He will kill me-" she whispered,
she said he would"
Don't you believe | love you?' l
asked.
"Oh, know you dol Oh, Jane, 1
know you do.
"Well, then, believe that l would
have my tongue cut out before |
would let Tingman know you told
me. But you must tell me-"
"His name is Lawrence, she said,
whispering low, for fright, land he
lives at Ton the Hudson, but his
office was in New York Charles Law
renee, No. Broadway, New York"
And your name?"
Emily"
"And Walter is your brother?"
"No. Walter is our neighbor, Mr..
Jordan's son. / have no brother or
sister"
We were at Fayetteville the next
day, and when it was dark, l slipped
away and posted u letter to Mr..
Charles Lawrence. l had to bepretty
quick, too, for | would be missed in
the drpssing-room if | was away long.
But got back in time to dress Sylph-
inc, who looked far filter togo to bed
and have a doctor than to be riding
in a circus-rng. She had a nasty
little cough, too, that was none too
good to hear.
But | had no choice about the mat
ter, and after l dressed her | watched
her through a slit in the curtain, and
saw her make her little graceful
courtesy. and be lifted to her horse.
She stood up, shook out her skirts,
and waved her little wand, while the
noise of clapping went on. Then
| Just as the band began, a voice in the
audience cried:
''It is Emily Lawrence Emily
Emily" Anda boy of seventeen or
so pushed his way to the ring, while
Sylphine, with loud cry of: Wal
ter! Walter!" sprang off her horse
and ran into his arms.
There was an awful confusion
Tingman tried to seize the child, but
the hoy held her fast, shouting:
"She has been stolenl She is Emily,
Lawrence of t. You must know
her father"
There were a number of people from
| T-who had come over by train to
! JIle clTCuS, WIZ ulu hHOW MI. lldW-
renee, and there was a perfect riot
when it was understood that the
child the Lawrences had lost n year
before was stolen for the circus. The
crowd tore up the benches and fought
the circus hands, and Tingman had
to run for his life. | saw Sylphine
carried away by u number of ladies
and gentleman, and | crept to my
lodgings, glad to escape the tumult,
glad for the child, but crying, too, to
lose her. The next day Tingman's
circus was far on its road to another
town, but | was not with it. | had
made up my mind to try some other
way of getting II living, and | had
some money laid up.
SO | went to New York, where had
a cousin, and | was looking over the
advertisements, hoping to fini a
place to suit me, when | found my
own name and a notice to call at MIR.
Lawrence office, to "hear Of some
thing to my advantage" And, my
dear, there were about two hundred