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MYRTLE'S LETTER--THE YOUNG MEN'S PURSUIT.
"You know all about it, Olive ?" Cyprian Eveleth said to his sister, after a brief word of greeting.
"Know of what, Cyprian ?" "Why, sister, don't you know that Myrtle Hazard is missing,--gone!--gone nobody knows where, and that we are looking in all directions to find her ?" Olive turned very pale and was silent for a moment.

At the end of that moment the story seemed almost old to her.

It was a natural ending of the prison-life which had been round Myrtle since her earliest years.
When she got large and strong enough, she broke out of jail,--that was all.

The nursery-bar is always climbed sooner or later, whether it is a wooden or an iron one.