The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-02-13

oehcu. nave phiu lOr my room up
to certain date and II cannot enjoy
its privacy without being interrupted
by strange and unwelcome visitors pray
return my money and will 90 some
place where l 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 / know n thing
or two, all as confident of her identity
ms we were of our own personality.
Yet there was she, on the other hand,
deliberately denying her name and
her people, and what we're we to do?
The long and short of il was we didn't
do anything. She got ov, 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 Mals-
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 a note TO the dis
trncted parents and requested them to
call. Again there was a meeting in
the third story olcove, and that time
she broke down and acknowledged her
duplicity. Tho 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 40 pitifully for
forgiveness that we parioned 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.
"1t looks rs il tine affair would have
been mysterious if il 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
LETT short note stating that she had
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
! personate another and taste, for n few
hours, at least, the Joy of being loved
and belonging TO somebody once
/ again, she could not resist the tempta-
ton. She could not endure deceiving
them longer, she added, and must 90
away, praying that their own daugh-
/ ter would soon be restored to them.
"That very night Rose herself came
home, dressed as she had been when
che went away and looking precisely
the same. She berated her parents
soundly for not writing to her and ex-
plPLIed thn' he hal stopped in Lin.
coz lend, for whom
ST q one she had
I'M. She said she
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nonplused by their not answ wig. I
may as well say here that enc letter
she claimed to have sent never came
to light, and Mr.. and Mrs. Malsbury
wero so happy in at last finding some.
body who was willing to be their
daughter that they took her at her
word and never made any inquiries
about her actions of those few days.
For my part, 1 believe they were
afraid to investigate, fearing they
would only learn some new proof of
her deception. They did, however.
make diligent search for Roses dou.
bic, who had turned my boarding
house into such perfect hotbed OF
excitement, but she hai died away
from the knowledge of the world as
mysteriously as she hal appeared
among us.
"Rose relcnted towards the doctor,
and would have taken him on half "a
hint, but he seemed rather squeamish
about marrying woman whose pres
ence infected him with feeling OF in.
decision rs to whether he was making
love to his own wife or somebody
else's, and he wisely fought shy OF her
and married n demure little creature
who has not yet developed the faculty
of materiai2ing at will wherever her
fancy dictates. Rose isn't married
yet. I've seen her hundred times
since, and every time | am haunted by
a score of vexing questions, and
know every ione who was acquainted
with the circumstances can testify to
the same thing. Is she herself or
somebody else? We're there really
two girls or only one? If there were
two, which did the old folks really
keep at last for their daughter and
what became OF the other ?"-Chicaso
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