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Show MILDRED LEWIS , MUCH SOUGH! GIRL Her Mysterious Disappearance on Thanksgiving Day Causes Sensation. WALKS FROM THE IRON SPRINGS BY MOONLIOPT Avoids Autos Out Hunting Hr Along Road, Not Caring to be Seen Trudging After Nightfall. That Miss Mildred Lewis, the sixteen-year old daughter of Instructor II. Claud Lewis of the B. A. C, was so popular with the masculine portion of Cedar City as to have two or three dozen of them, single and married nlike, out searching frantically for her over a radius of several miles, had never occurred to the mind of that young lady until last evening. Hut such proves to be the cuse. And in true maiden fashion, she was studiously studious-ly avoiding all of them, preferring to walk the nine or ten miles from Iron Springs to Cedar to occupying a seat in any of the automobiles so gener- oualy provided for her accommoda tion. Of course, it was all a mistake, and Miss Lewis was unwittingly playing the part of "Charley Ross," to the consternation of the Lewis family and the community at large. It transpired that Mr. Lewis and family were spending Thanksgiving holiday at Iron Sprirgs, sporting a-lKut a-lKut in the open air, hunting gum, shooting ducks, etc., and everything went "merry as a marriage bell" un- til the party began to think of return ing home. And then, it was discovered discov-ered that Mildred was missing. She had last been seen by her younger sisters when she had left them to join her father at the reservoir, where he was looking for ducks. She had not found her father and had not returned to the other girls or to Mm, Lewis at the car. Where could she be? They called her name, and looked about to no avail. Finally the family decided that she had decided to walk on towards to-wards home, for a lark, and so they proceeded in the same direction, expecting ex-pecting every minute to conic up with her. On their arrival at home, the young lady was still mining. Dismounting Dis-mounting the remainder of the family from the car, Mr. Lewis returned to meet his daughter, whom he felt sure was by this time walking it in. He failed to meet her, and spent some time in a fruitless search of the country coun-try in which she had last been seen. A thousand anxieties and misgivings surged through his brain as well as the brains of the searchers who later tendered their assistance. There was a reservoir of considerable depth, formed by the construction of a cement ce-ment wall across a deep wash. Could she have plunged headlong from this wall, for which she we.s headed when last seen, and have drowned? Had she fallen into some of the deep and narrow gulleys and been disabled? Hid she been kidnaped and carried or ? These were Home of the possibilities possi-bilities that presented themselves. A (Ira was kindled to try and attract hi r, as darkness drew on. Hut all the. efforts of the frantic father were unrewarded, and he returned to town for assistance. Several automobiles responded to the call for assistance, and quite a little lit-tle company of people were soon scouring the country near which the young lady had last been seen, searching search-ing with flash lights for foot-prints, calling her name and dragging the treacherous looking pond. Had she heart failure? Was she of (a meloncholy disposition? were some ig of the comforting questions the father had to answer. And then the searchers were attracted at-tracted back to the road by the persistent per-sistent honking of automobile horns, on arriving at which it was learned ..ith much relief that the young lady bad arrived safely at home. Later it was erned that the romantic young lady had become separated from the others and was unable to make her presence known or arrive at a point where she could b seen by them until they had started on the homeward trip. Then she felt a little resentful, thinking that they were trying to play a joke on her. She laUurely "hit tie' road" for home, but Kfhen she saw an automobile a; pn sching, she would take refuge in the brush and conceal herself until it wai beyond view, and then proceed. She arrived at home shortly before 10 o'clock at night, having hav-ing walked all the way in, but not too tired to mingle in the dame shortly after. For a long time telephone calls continued to pour in concerning the lost girl, most of which she answered herself, but in the guise of the "second "sec-ond person." The laugh, of course, was on the seurchers, in this case, but everybody returned home happy and perfectly satisfied with the outcome of the little lit-tle adventure. |