Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-04
''Fhey came about 8 O'clock. The
widow had gone upstairs. and Itoak

them straight to her room. The doc
tor had been let into the secret, and
when she bade us come in, in answer
to my rap on her door, he and Jennie,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Malsbury and myself
walked in and faced her as she sat
there directly under the glare of the
chandelier. She had taken off her
glasses and unfastenea her hair and
was perfectly free from all disguise.
Her mother stopped in the middle of
the room and commenced to cry.
"'Rose, she sobbed, holding out
her arm, what do you mean by this?
What are you trying to do?'
ga look of genuine surprise settled
over the widows face, but beyond
that there was not the quivering of q
muscle.
"T think you must be mistaken,
madam she said at length, coolly.
my name is not Rose, but Marion.
Who is it you wish to see?'
"Her father stepped up close before
her and looked her squarely in the
face.
"'We are here to see you, he said,
sternly. 'We intend to take you
home with us.
"Her face flushed and it was plain
that she was becoming downright an
CRY.
"Indeed9' she retorted, sharply.
Then she turned on me. TO whom
am I indebted for this intrusion9' she
asked. Il have paid for my room up
to certain date and if I cannot enjoy
its privacy without being interrupted
by strange and unwelcome visitors pray
return my money and l will so some
place where 1 will not be suspected
and subjected to insults.
"Her audacity fairly took our breath
away. There we were, her parents,
her former lover, her dearest friend
and myself, who think I know thing
or two, all as confident of her identity
as we were of our own personality.
Yet there was she, on the Other hand,
deliberately denying her name and
her people, and what were we to dop
The long and short of it was we didn't
do anything. She got ov> r her spunky
spell in few moments, and before
Mr.. and Mrs. Malsbury went away she
joined US in the parlor and made mer-
ry over the mistake we had fallen into
and offered suggestions for learning
the whereabouts of the real Rose Mails
bury.
"For two days quiet but thorough
search for the missing girl was carried
on, but to no effect. On the third day
the widow wrote note to the dis
tracted parents and requested them to
call. Again there was meeting in
the third story slcove, and that time
she broke down and acknowledged her
duplicity. The only reason she could
give for such piece of deception was
her love for the doctor and her desire
to be near him and learn what he was
doing. She begged SO pitifully for
forgiveness that we pardoned her then
and there, and before she went away
the engagement between her and the
doctor was renewed and another date
was set for the marriage. The next
day she threw aside her mourning and
donned her own clothes, which her
mother had brought, and they took
her home.
est looks as if the affair would have
been mysterious if it had ended there,
but the FUNNIEST part of it is yet to
come. She stayed with the Malsburys
two days and then, as my boy Tom
would say, she turned up missing. She
left short note stating that she hal
told them the truth in their first in
terview, that she had really never
heard OF them before, but that she was
sick with lonelines and homesickness,
and when the opportunity came to i'm.
personafe another and taste, for few,
hours, at least, The 10y of being loved
, and belonging 10 somebody oaou