The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27
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with the burial of the broken-hearted father was also inferred the family skeleton. The dying request of MT Stevenson was that his body be buried from his wife's residence. and this wish was complied with.
 It was in the early evening of April 26 of last year that Grace disappeared but it was more than two months later when the news was made public, the members of the family hoping to avoid unpleasant publicity and expecting to be able to find her by the efforts Of their own private detectives. They were unsuccessful, however. and soon the whole country rang with the story of the strange case.
 Grace Stevenson is about 26 years old, although she does not appear to be a day over 20. She is of a bit more than medium height for woman. of slender build, but of fine figure and perfect carriage.
 Her complexion is her most remark able feature, almost startling in it's pallor, white as marble, yet relieved by delicate flush on the cheeks. Her face is oval, cheek bones prominent, and nose straight and in perfect pro- portion. Her eyes are deep blue. Her hair is rich dark brown with just a suggestion of Titan auburn when the sunlight touches it. Owing to an acci- dent in childhood her upper front teeth are false, and when she went away one of them was broken.
 Not a pronounced beauty. still an attractive girl, Grace Stevenson is one who would attract attention upon any street.
 The singular details of Grace's de- parture baffie all attempts at theory making. It would seem that when she left the house she had no intention of running away, for she had nothing but slippers on her feet and only about $6 in her pocket-bOok She left all of her jewelry and valuables behind and did not provide herself with money as she could easily have done. There was not the slightest sign of any preparations for departure in the house. She had not arranged any of her possessions as she would have done had she even been going out for the shortest kind of a visit. Everything was left just where she had last used it. She did not even take her watch.
 and brother Grace stepped aboard a streetcar bound for Boston and has never been seen or heard from since.
 Was she murdered? Was she kid naped? Did she elope? Was she sud denly taken insane? Did she desire to escape from her unhappy home? These are the questions which have not yet been answered ana WHICH there IS no prospect of answering. There seems to be plenty of evidence, however, to combat any of these theories, yet the fact remains that she is missing.
 It was at first supposed that the fam fly trouble was responsible for her leav- ing home, and the father and mother suspected each other of being implica- ted in her disappearance, but the death of her father refuting this on his death- ha1 la otrot af fIn +l11 because of her worry over thea uncer- tainty. dispels this thought. The fol- lowing words of MT Stevenson, how ever, are pregnant with meaning and tragic in their intensity:
 ''Oh, that my girl would only let me know where she is! l cannot under stand why she leaves me in ignorance. Why does she not send me some word If alive she must know how long for her.