The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-06-10

meditative little pause, 81 cannot In this
| necessarily brief outline follow her his
tory step by step for the next fifteen or
twenty years. 1t is essential, however,
to note that the lady soon after en-
barked for Europe, where her husband
held some official position under our
| povernment-consul in some remote
foreign part. / may as well add in
this connection that he died a year
later, and his widow, now more than
ever devoted to her adopted daughter
and dreading separation from her
more than anything in the world, re-
NAMED abroad for several years, drift
ing from one point of interest to an
other; thus Annie was nearly grown
to womanhood before she revisited her
native land. Owing to this fact, as
we'll as to the entire lack of any definite
information to work on and the multi
plicity of false clews that were given
from time to time, the detectives whom
Mrs. Dunlirl1 at different periods en-
gagged in her search for her niece were
baffied in all their attempts to find her.
Swallowed up in another name and
llCutlOys u iii1iC DupOiie LOU n dSStSdiAy
ceased to exist.
"And now I must digress just for q
moment in order to bring to your
notice yet another person who plays
an important part in the sequel.
This person is at present living in
Evansburg, small place about
ten miles from X, and it was
from her that l succeeded in OBJ
tanning my chief evidence in this
case. Her name is of no consequence:
or rather it is of so much consequence
that l shall withhold it for the present
Taken at an early age from wretched
tenement house in New York, and
transferred to the different atmosphere
of wealthy lady's home, where for the
first time in her life she was treated as
a human being, where her hands were
trained to dizziness in all household
duties, where she was given a sound
rudimentary education and was fitted
by kind and painstalNng instruction for
the humble walk in life for which
nature and circumstances had evidently
her, this girl knew no better
than to misinterpret the intentions of
her kind benefactress (who was, as you
nay have already sbrewdly surmised,
none other than Annie Dupont's
Adaptive mother), and upon this misin-
depreciation to build the most absurd
md extravagant expectations. 1t may
lave been the girls own preposterous
Tanity that conceived the notion, or it
S possible that the thought was sug-
-ested to her by some older person. Be
his as it may, she began to cherish the
lope that she would some day receive
LIBERAL share of the lady's small fortune,
o which, as she knew, there were no
Immediate heirs. 1t was only when
lnnie Dupont was legally adopted that
his absurd bubble burst. Learning
at this time of the foolish
xpectation that the girl had been in
uiging, the lady told her to dismiss the
lea at once. L should never have
reamed of making you heir, in any
vent, she said, and now everything
hat l possess win go to Annie, my
dopted daughter
Instead of acquiescing in this deci-
on without murmur-which calm
by the way, would have
reverted this story of mine from being
I'D to my present select audience-the
ri was angry, and she visited all her
sentiment upon the child who had in
ocently oyerthrown her ambitious air