![]() ![]() Perhaps, if she proves to be no trouble and is useful, Aunt Kitty will not try to send Cornelia away.Ĭornelia soon finds out why Aunt Kitty does not want Cornelia in her life. Cornelia promises to do her part to pay for her keep and soon she is helping the owner of the boarding house with her grocery shopping and other chores. One look at one of the pitiful residents of the home is enough to soften even Aunt Kitty’s heart and she takes Cornelia back to the boarding house where she lives. The very morning after Cornelia’s arrival Aunt Kitty takes her to the Chicago Home For the Friendless. Cornelia is not looking her best - dressed as she is in her dead father’s boots, boy’s pants and a shirt - and Aunt Kitty is clearly very displeased that she has turned up. Aunt Kitty has no interest in taking in Cornelia, but the Right Reverend manages to make his escape, leaving Cornelia behind. Thus is it that Cornelia and the Right Reverend travel from New York state all the way to Chicago so that the man can deliver the unwanted child to her uncle’s widow. Not having a home, friends, or close kin it seems a sure thing that she is going to end up in an orphanage, but her local pastor, the Right Reverend is determined to find Cornelia a home. ![]() In close succession she has lost her mother, brothers, and recently her father was shot and killed. ![]() To say that Cornelia Warne has been singularly unlucky over the last few years is an understatement. ![]()
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