Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1898-05-04
AN ADVENTU RESS.

! one will rpadily rerc,i,r I'm trocipo tho
adventures OF one of the most re,unrkohle
women | have ever met.
Sh, grew from childhood in an inland
town of Virginia. uDdcrsh shadow of fin,
great Blue RIDGE There AFRO ner.nns in
this CITY who remember her then as a Ecnu-
| tiful child. wild and yavwar,l AS tbe wind
a laughing black eyed crpoturo WHOM,
| every body loved Their, was music in hor
yoice-a ,bnrr, nare co,ild r.sist Il, H..
| suoilcd. iu,pulsiye beautv that see,ed to
carry Ierpet,,al sunshine with her Rnt
the darkness of n great sorrow came ,,rop
her She was then inst II Her Very yir
r. had become Dor enemies and deserted
who should have been her nrotert-
ne left her homc and before n vcar
Wa. passed her memory WAS scarcely re-.
called by those to whom she had heen y
| creature of love and i,,y and beantv
"A friend of mine - said MIR + chad
often seen her thcre-inderd had known
her well-and ~ we talked of many tbinrs
| so we talked Of her Ono 1,v Mr. AND
myself were yort for nv a merchant of This
city to investigate a casc involving n heayy
forgery 1t seemed tbat n check of his had
been presented and ca.hcd ot onr nf nrr
| banks for a l3r..r sum. To MS h. ,unfidcd
the fact tbat thr criminal VS. - woman
for 4tT5rl1
amount and NOT bnviug If bc h,I sio, Oh
the check and told her IN fin il IN for
whatever sum shr rTol,ir,d
She had drawn it for many thousands of
dollnrs-fcr all. indeed. he had ON ,let,osit
and immediately fed the country. He
gave us a picture of the criminal hut WAS
careful to inform us that he only wished
to recover his uroparty. not 10 nllnisb tba
offender
1t was sin0ular face tbo ar+ist had
paintcd-a strange. weird face Heavy
masses of bronze hair shaded n broad
white forehead tbot seemed 70 sbado,v
dark. fathomless ewes, instinct with fire
and intelligence Even tho nirtnre orp,v
strangely attractive as Won looked mon if
The beautiful mouth was sunny with the
smile that nestled on the Inns. while the
flush that seemed to fever ON the cheek
had the tint of the rose TWAS such a face
as man wo,lld want To love and cherish or
die that it might know no sorrow
could not believe that this stroorp1,
| beautiful woman had committed such "A
crime. and ~ sat in NV office s,ent
hours in looking upon it. Indeed I had
begun to think of but little else. and one
night nv friend came in while was look
ing at it,
handed it to him with the remark.
as she not beautiful>''
"My God IL is Laura Ellisonp
"Whof'
"Tbe vounp lady of whom vo, have of-
ten heard me speak"
mot she who so suddenly disappoarcd9"
Eyes But when did YOU get tbissn
And l told him all knew of the case.
"Yon will never oct her be said ne tha
picture was handed back to me.
WHY"
"She Is far too smart"
"Why. she looks as innocent as AN an
gel
"You will find her subtle enough"
And so the conversation ended. / adopt.
ed every possible means to find her in vain.
From the moment she disappeared from
the CITY all trace Of her was lost
After months of useless search wo SIR
rendered the case and took no more intrr-
est in it,
1t was several wears afterward that
met nv friend on his return from Wash.
ineton. There was strange. humorous
smile ON his face as he asked me If I Mad
ever heard of INV dear friend. whose ric
ture had once taken such an interest in
mot word"
"Wiu Won use any information may
give Won about herr"
"Eo: the case is now ont Of nv hands "
"And YOU will receive in confdpuce
what 7 now tell voupn
YES.
"Wcu then have inst left her In \rv,
York and had the pleasure a week sir,..
of ATTENDING Lrr weilGiu,,'
"IIer vedHiugnp
eyes
"Witb vbna@n
in th4 countr, ),
"ImuossiLlrt',
ulrrnn ~bo won't from horn tn Inn.
home. and by her family was semi Il. a5#I..,.
relative in MARYLAND Hero She fr,ir,j
tbn ar,n,aintonre nf her 1reso,t Er.I,,.l
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