for at every meeting the were never made and it would not do to mr jones s bills too closely unless you gave up all hope of a to office one curious effect of political aspirations in county was to shut the eyes that they could not see to close the ears that they could not hear and to destroy the sense of smell but not being a the pen without and the within and saw everywhere the fraud and heard the echo of jones s cruelty a weak eyed girl admitted him and as he did not wish to make his business known at once he affected a sort of idle interest in the place and asked to be allowed to look around the weak eyed girl watched him he found that all the women with children twenty persons in all were obliged to sleep in one room which owing to the hill slope was partly under ground and which had but half a window for light and no except the chance from the door jones had declared that the women with children must stay there � he t goin to have a over the whole house here were vicious women and good women with their children crowded like chickens in a for market and there were as usual in such places helpless women with children of course this room was the scene of perpetual and occasional fighting in the quarters devoted to the insane people slightly de and it waa precious little so far as went that he learned from her for she never could c of as a place q any regard veiy from t where she her life but learned charitable institution the weak eyed girl had been called away for a n stood looking into a cell where there waa a with a gay red in his hat and a of red flannel about his he up and down like a i am general he began people don t believe it but i am i had my head shot off at and the new one that on isn t nigh bo good as the thb ma old one it s on one that s why they take of me to shut me up bnt i know some things my head is on one side bnt it s all right on t other when i know a thing in the left side of my head i know it lean down here let me tell you something out of the left side not out of the side mind ye i wouldn t a told you if he hadn t locked me up fer nothing jones is a thief he the bodies of the dead and then the empty back to the county but that a n t au just then the weak eyed girl came back and as moved away called out that a n t all i ll tell the rest another time and that a n t out of the side you can depend on that that s out of the left side sound as a nut on that but began to wonder where he should find s mother don t go in there i cried the weak eyed girl as was opening a door s in there and she ll you oh well if that s all her curses won t hurt said pushing open the door but the of and vile language that he received made him the old paced the floor everybody that came in her way and by the window in the same room feeling the light that struggled through the dusty glass upon her face sat a sorrowful intelligent english woman noticed at once that she was english and in a few moments he discovered that her sight was could it be that s mother was the room mate of this creature whose and did not for a moment a charitable institution happily the weak eyed girl had not dared to brave the of stepped forward to the woman by the window and greeted her is this mrs that is my name sir she said her face toward who could not but remark the contrast between the thorough refinement of her manner and her coarse scant frock of blue i saw your daughter yesterday did you see my boy there was a in her voice and an agitation in her manner which disclosed the emotion she strove in vain to conceal for only the day before bill jones had informed her that would be bound out on saturday and that she would find that goin him a business so much as some others he mention told her about s safety i shall not write down the conversation here critics would say that it was an scene as if all the world were as cold as all i can tell is that this refined woman had all she could do to control herself in her eagerness to get out of her away from the of away from the of jones away from the sights and sounds and smells of the place and above all her eagerness to fly to the little head from whom she had been banished for two years it seemed to her that she could gladly die now if she could die with that head upon her bosom and so in spite of the opposition of bill jones s son who threatened her with every sort of if she left wrapped mrs s blue in s shawl thk and tlie feeble woman oflf to and as they drove away a sad voice cried from ihe of the upper window by good by turned and that it waa poor for whom was no and ood hi h t all the way back pronounced mental on the society not for sending to the five points or the south sea islands whichever it was but for so blind a institution to 