The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-12-31

girl who-Oh ! here she is, behind this
post"
The watch was in Annals hands.
''Very fortunate 7 said Mr.. Miller
"But how hardened, as well as adroit, You
must be, to steal from one who stopped to
give you kind word!''
.Believe me,' implored Anna. al did
not steal it. The lacy dropped it."
Nonsense It would have been SILVER
ed In thousand pieces. You'd do much
better to confess it,
81 seed her round" said the policeman,
"not quarter of an hour ago, and told her
to be off but she knowed what she wanted
to be at too well for that"
go be merciful !" shrieked Anna, wild
1y; 81 am innocent. I can get no work, /
am starving-I am perishing with cold
You viii not even let me warm myself by
any of your fires" .
Nonsense" said Mr.. Miller.
"Come along without any fuss, young
wonaD," said the officer.
Anna looked from one harsh brew to the
other. All light, all hope went out of her
heart. Her hands and her head dropped,
and the officer half-carried her to the station
house. She tainted away when she arrived
there, and they laid her on one of those
beds which never get eold-occupied as
they are by such a continual succession oil
dirty, noisome outcasts. There she, the
child Of clergyman, educated, refined,
spent the day and night along with the vi
cious, the debased, the intoxicated. The
next morning she was marched into the po-
| lice court with the crowd of wretches. =
s'What is your name % asked the mag
istrate.
She could not give the honorable name
of her dead father. "Mary JONES'" blush
for the falsehood dying her cheeks.
''Its astonishing what number of Ma
ry Joneses we see here" said the judge
''Well, Mary, what have you to say to this
charge %
81 found the watch on the sidewalk
SIR answered Anna, almost inaudibly.
Found it 2" O! that's the old story
| But her words were corroborated by two
boys, who had seen her take something
! from the pavement, and Mr.. Miller declined
to prosecute the charge, so the conclusion
of the Judge was, "You may CO." 1t seem
ed a matter of indifference to her, so utter,
ly broken down was she. They helped hel
to leave the court, and Mr.. Miller followed
her. Fastening upon her wan face look
of pity, he said
"My poor girl, I should like to do some
thing for you. What is it that you want ??
81 want to be kept from losing the mex
world as have lost this
"Here, go to my house and ask for my
daughter said he, giving her card
Margaret, said Miss Miller to hel
cham Der maid, after she had read the words
on the card, and heard of some of poor An
mas hardships, couldn't you find a room
for this girl in some lodging house ? There
must be many such houses for poor people
/ think
81 dare say, men," returned Margaret
''but I'm not used to going about among
| thin places, men,"
Haven't you sister who keeps house?'
asked the young lady. "Couldn't she take
her in for little while 90
The chamber maid tossed her head, 81
don't think she would like to, mem. Sh'
lives very respectable, does my sister,
81 don't know what to do" said Miss
Miller, perplexed.
But when Anna next spoke, her words
were wild and incoherent. Her suffering
for the last few days had been too much TO
mind and body, and she was now fairly de
lrious.
When Mr.. Miller came home, he sen: fo
carriage, and had her taken to the hospi
tai. There, two days after, she died J!