The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-09
1he Sunday Times Dispatchs

sister who had rcappeared. Georgian WI o onlv Dlavino hin,
false, but deeeiving the general public In fact knowingly Or n
kniowngly' she was PerPeuatng a great fraud. He was inclined to
ImN knowingly IL began TO regard with less incredulty
iazenS declaration that the shock Of her brothers return had un-
Distressed, but no longer the prev Of distractino doubt :. ..a,
examined the inscription before him and this time noticed otie55 tie tie ne%
Georgian Hazen.% A tier 0hy % Wt u Georgian Iontti' afeTw1ads
MaTdSf That the woman had been married twice, and that this Al.
nc rLancesco was the son Of her first husband rather than of the
"e whose name he bore7 1t looked that way. There was a sug-
We'll with the b" deoid RaiSpt Itsfia an T f6S Francesca which correspondent
rePe%ed and not altogether satisfied with his discoveries. he
OF a man carrying a kit of tools and wearing on his face a harsh harsh and
other nteo,i @pf fSm As this man was middle-aged and had no
Inc te cause OF his discomfort was easy enough to imagine; though wby
ne should come into this place with tools was more than M9' RAM RAM
the Hello stranger" It was this man who spoke. interested in
nor ;n,erus monument, ehf Well, IN soon give you reason to be
A Anitm sT re- yet Do you see this inscrpton-On June 2 1885:
come The youngster didn't die If If se em oa ad n n orders has just
chip the ffteen-year-old lie out VIM" Wbst d. nd I'M mo commanded mn to
s~ee JoD Q a day like this. Morn likely itn put me under a
s S6Gn years bnSt and seventeen evgeentte days. and now it must come out. rain or
I'll be blessed b1t Ia ,L neIore te SETS s the telegram ran.
rt,i mT nd Ransom controlling himself with difficulty. pointed to the
800 1 10 bt the child seems to have been buried here he
Lord bless you, yes; a child was buried here. but we all knew
10 zoe" nloIe with It, One Of the little bodies was given to Mr.
after a bit of the dress she wore that day was found hanging Giu " % q
remembered that them gipsies had passed the schooihonse a hail hal b %p
the Se woo % MIR fe' "a, and they now say found the little girl hiding behind
was always thought doubtful by every one but Mr.. and Mrs. Hazcn.
mound Where her 0 nan sT isl liz Oe"'''d nF '' be buried under this
But one OF the children was buried here" persisted Ransom,
I GU nus have known the number OF those lost and would surely
be able to tell If one were missing as must have been he So = t1.
gipsies had carried off Anitra before the fire"
l don't know about that" objected the stonecutter. There
was III those days, a little orphan girl, almost an idiot. who van
dered about this town, staying now in one house and now in an
other a folks compassion on her. She was never seen aqin after
III tire. II she was in the schoolhouse that day, as She sometimes
was nc number would be made up. No one was left to tell rs
1t was an awful time, sir The village hasn't got over it vet"
Mr.. Ransom made some sympathetic reioinder and withdrew TO-
wards the gateway, but soon came suoing back. The lar had
arranged his tools and was preparing to go to work.
1T seems as if the family was pretty well represented here re-
marked Ransom. rs 1t the girl herself,-Anitra. ! believe Won called
her'-who has ordered this record Of her death removedY5
oh, no, you don't know them Hazens. There's one Of EN- who
has quite a story; the twin of this Anira. She lived to grow IN and
have a lot OF money left her. II you lived in Sitford. or lived in Neu
York, you'd know all about her; for her names been in the papers
a lot this week She's the great lady who married and left her hus-
band all n III day; and for what reason do YOU think? We know,
because she don't keep no secrets from her old friends. She's found
this sister, and it's her as has ordered M to chip away this name.
She wants 1t done to-day, because she's coming here with this gal
shes found. Folks say she ran across her in the street and knew
her at once. Can you guess how?'
From her name"
Lord no from what ! hear She hadn't any name. From her
looks! She saw her own self when She looked AT her