The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-11-09
MRS. S|SSON WRITES BOOK
"DoRoTHY" is NAME OF STORY
WRITTEN IN NORFOLK.
VOLUME is JUST PUBLISHED

''tS'No''n9 otOTy OI lnuldnd ana SOUTH
ern Life. With Wholesome Romance
Woven Into II, is Latest Literary
Product From Here.
Another book has been written in
Norfolk. Dorothy" is the title of n
splendidly bound volume just issued
by the publishers, and written in this
city while she lived here by Mrs.
Fletcher NJ. Sisson, wife of the for
mer Methodist presiding elder of the
Norfolk district The story is a pref
ty romance dealing with Indiana life
and habits, with enough of dialect to
make 1t interesting but not monoton-
Gus and with enough of the southern
atmosphere of the times just after the
civil war to make it quaint. Mrs. Sis
son was member of the Wednesday
club of Norfolk She has written a
number of other books.
Synopsis of the Story.
In the story prairie fires and forest
fires. New Orleans plague. an old
fashioned Indiana spelling bee and
other Incidents of civil war times. are
features.
Dorothy was the little daughter Of
a southern family. Her father was
killed in the war and her mother died
from the shock. She was taken into
the home of southern family who
moved to Indiana. Her foster father
was professor. An old fashioned
southern nanny" is in the family
Dorothy read n great deal and was
educating herself to a certain extent
The professor established a seminary
A young man named Robert awk.
ward, from a poor family, but very
much in earnest about his education
enters the school. He Is attracted to
Dorothy. At spelling bee Dorothy is
spelled down by Robert, which in
creases her respect for him. But Rob.
ert believes he has no chance in Dor.
othys heart. He is jealous of another
young man named Clay. SO he re-
tires from the love-race.
A stranger drops into the village,
claiming to be Methodist preacher
The professor dies. On his death bed
this pretending preacher exerts innu-
ence over the professor to such an ex-
tent that the dying man Wills his for.
tune to child saving institute which
this stranger is to establish and Dor
othy gets none of the money. The
heroine then goes into a lumber camp
to teach. Friends discover fraud in
the will, take it into court and devel-
op the fact that the stranger who
pretended to be a preacher was moth.
Ing more than an escaped convict
wanted on charges of embeZ2lement,
murder and arson. Dorothy then gets
the money.
After five years. in part two, Doro-
thy is found back in the old home
again, with friends around her ex-
cepting Robert, who is studying medi-
cine in New Orleans. Yellow fever
sets in and Roberts mother dies. He
does much gallant work among the
suffering and becomes very i'll him
self, but RECEIVERS.
Dorothy and her friends, during a
camping expedition, are imperiled by
a forest fire and escape by boats to
an island in the river, The expert.
ence is exciting.
Robert goes to Germany TO complete
medical study. Dorothy goes to Scot,
land TO visit relatives. Robert learns
that Clay his former rival for the
heart and hand of Dorothy, has mar.
ried another girl and the hero imme-
diately starts out for Scotland where
he claims Dorothy as his bride
The book is a splendid mechanical
production as well as an intensely in
tcreSting artistic bit of literature. |
Mrs. Sissou has woven the romance
in the story so that not line of the
book lags in interest. 1t is volume
which will be enjoyed by young or
Old.
\ novel feature of the book are the !
italics used to emphasize important
lines in points of crisis.
SATURDAY SETTINGS.