One of the little bodies was given to Mr.Hazen for burial.

He believed it was his Anitra, but a good while after, a bit of the dress she wore that day was found hanging to a bush where some gipsies had been.

There were lots of folks who remembered that them gipsies had passed the schoolhouse a half hour before the fire, and they now say found the little girl hiding behind the wood-pile, and carried her off.
No one ever knew; but her death was always thought doubtful by every one but Mr.and Mrs.Hazen.They stuck to the old idee and believed her to be buried under this mound where her name is." "But one of the children was buried here," persisted Ransom.

"You must have known the number of those lost and would surely be able to tell if one were missing, as must have been the case if the gipsies had carried off Anitra before the fire." "I don't know about that," objected the stone-cutter.

"There was, in those days, a little orphan girl, almost an idiot, who wandered about this town, staying now in one house and now in another as folks took compassion on her.