Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-04-27

W ueh -hIS. ObUorue remarked, HOW
nice it will be to have them settled in
Lakewood" Kitty feebly repeated !
Lakewood"
eyes. Ernest has bought the old
Parsons estate and they are to live
there,
Kitty knew the place very well. 1t
was next to her own. How could she
ever bear it. She wanted to go home
how where she could think and learn
how to bear this unexpected trouble.
1t lacked still an hour of tram time.
III must go. Indeed, dear Mrs. Os-
borne, shall be better.at home.n
"Then take care of yourself, now, !"
WAS the parting admonition ms Kitty
rode away.
Kitty was thankful Aunt Margret
was away. 81 wonder what she will
think about his being my lover nowP"
thought Kitty, bitterly. "Seems she
was mistaken this time"
Kitty sat again in the moonlight
and came to another decision.
III must go away for n time. can
not stay here through it all. 1 will
send Nancy home for visit to her
mother and take Mary with me and go
where? Anywhere up among the
mountains, where 1 can hide myself
until can command my foolish self. {"
Two days later found tho house
closed and Ernest Seabrook, calling
there, found I'LL doors and shutters
closed and everything wearing look
of desert;on. He returned and ques-
toned his sister.
"Gone!" she echoed in surprise.
kitty never said word about it.
She generally tells me her plans"
"Perhaps she was suddenly called
away"
eyes, but even then she has sent me
notes on several occasions, but I'll go
over and call on Mrs. Snnderson Per-
hnps she will know something about
81 feel rs if something is wrong"
said Ernest.
$50 do and I'll try to find out
about it."
Mrs. Sanderson was Kitty's nearest
neishbor, and Mrs. Martin Scabrook
rode over Mt once, and in the course
of her conversation casually inquired
for the Prcstons.
"They all went off suddenly. 1
haven't the least idea where they
went, said Mrs. Sanderson. "Nancy
went first, then Mary and Kitty. She
went over to Longwood couple of
days before. Looked sick when she
came home, mt least she walked MS if
she were sick when she went into the
house."
Mrs. Martin returned home per.
picked.
81 feel positively worried, Ernest.
Suppose you run over to Longwood
tomorrow"
Ernest looked nj his watch.
thine enough to go and get back
tonight" he said, and rushed out for
the station.
Arriving, he was eagerly questioned
rs to whether he had seen anything of
Kitty Preston.
'She was here three days ago and
was really sick when she went home. Z"
'She has gone somewhere-house
all shut up. We feel little troubled
about her. For some reason or other
Martins wife has the feeling that
something is wrong. What did she
talk about here?"
"Not much. did the talking. She
was surprised to hear of the wedding"
"Well, we hadn't mentioned it.
Fact is, Ellis got rather sweet on
Kitty, but she passed him over, so
when he made up III that quarrel with
NTar ha 81 IL
wrote us not to mention the affair to
her until it was over. We never
thought to tell you not to mention
it,.
cit can't be Kitty cared for Ellis 2"
said Mrs. Osborne.
COZ course not, else why didn't she
marry him when he asked her?" re-
piled Ernest.
Ernest returned. feeling troubled.
eve must think of some way to find
her, Queenie.
s"Queenie, was Mrs. Martins pet
name.
"Now, let me- think" she said.
Mrs. Sanderson said Nancy went
first. shouldn't wonder if Nancy
had gone to visit her mother in Globe
vile"
"Then, shall follow Nancy to NOR
row., said Ernest, decidedly, and he
did.
He found Nancy without trouble,
and was given Kitty's address, little
town up among the mountains. Next
morning he started for the same place.
Arriving, after due inquiries ut the
little hotel, he learned that Kitty had
been there, bat had left the day be-
fore. She had left her address, how
ever, and thither Ernest quickly fol-
lowed.
Kitty had found her accommodations
too limited and noisy and had secured
three apartments in en-. old rambling
farm house couple of miles from the
village. Here the sun peeped in from
sunrise to sunset, but its shining
brought no gladness to poor Kitty.
She was losing color and strength. All
the while she alternately pitied and
blama1 hprsalf Gom atir,o. ,Io. II