The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-11-18
A Little Girls
Adventure

Susie Qulnlan, seven years old, spent
a night in the Zig shadogy school,
house near her home In New York
and suffered hunger and loneliness
and terror, which, to a child OF her
age, seemed doubly great.
Susan went to the public school
building at Myrtle avenue and Wal
worth street Friday afternoon to meet
her brother, who attends a vacation
school in the building. She got into
the building, but missed her brother,
and, while wandering about trying to
find him, school Was dismissed for
the day, the Janitor locked the doors,
and went away.
The stiffness Of a three-story
schoolhouse. with only one small girl
IN it, is awful. The child realized she
was all alone, and ran downstairs tc
the entrance hall, only to find the bis
heavy door locked and barred. She
could hear the children laughing anC
playing on the sidewalk, but they
couldn't hear her when she screamed
for some one to come quick and lei
her out.
When she cried: Let me OUT q
voice somewhere up the stairs called.
Let me out" and then all was still
Il began to get dark, and Susan braved
the voice and trudged upstairs again
to the schoolrooms, where the big win
dows were. She went into her own
room, because it seemed a little like
home. She sat down on a hard-bot
toned chair in the front row of desks
and began to cry. 1t was after sun
per time. She opened the desk to see
if there were any cookies left over
from the last terms lunches. but
found nothing except a speller.
Then she tiptoed to look in ANY
Jones desk, for Amy used to bring
sandwich and a Jelly roll every day
There wasn't crumb there, nothing
but small dead mouse that had
starved to death since the vacation
began, and piece of report card
which the mouse had nibbled as a last
resort
Then she raped on a window.
Across the roofs of the wooden sheds
she saw the roof of her own home
only block away. She knew ii was
her roof, for there was her mothers
pink waist on the line, and beside II
the dolls clothes, which Susan had
washed that afternoon, and then stood
on 4 chair to hang out before she
came over to the school building II
was time the doll was abed. and Susan
knew nobody would attend to il. She
went through the room where the bic
scholars sit.
When she passed the principaps
desk she happened to look behind If
into case with glass doors. A skele.
ton with legs and arms and a skull
all screwed up, to be put away for
vacation, grinned at her The child
cried out and ran downstairs. scream.
ing all the way with the voice follow.
ing her and coming from the different
classrooms as she passed the doors
She ran back into her own school. 4
room and to her own desk. where She
nAliSA AEA laNS ID nel arms and cried I
till there was no cry left.
Although she could see only the dim
Of it, she knew that there was
a big armchair up on the teacber's
platform, with cushion IN IL 8,
Susan timidly groped her way 10 ~
platform and curled up on the cushioo
In the big chair, and that is whore ~.
detectives found her early in the morn
ing, fast asleep.
A general alarm had been sent ont
for the child when the parents Il
ported her TO the police as lost earl,
in the evening, but it was daylfgb,
when the detectives on the bnn,
traced the girl to the schoolhouse and
decided to break In.