Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-11-28

to utter come wise and tender counsel.
OF all in heaven or on earth, was there
none to pity and save him.
d.. a. IL ~. III, a..
"Look ont, Ellen said Mr.. Walden,
laying his paper ON bis knee, aud speak.
Ing 10 bis wife, who sat at the opposite
front window. ~ Do you see that young
man?'
"ies, Henry, one of your clerks, =. aud
the lady turned her face, mos. sweet, most
fair, from the beautiful child, to whom
she was tossing up and down cluster Of
si'ver.voiced bells, and listening to its
crow Of sriumph.
WAS one of my clerks, Ellen. That's
the young man we turned of last week
for helping himself to ten dollar bill
out of the drawer. You remember | told
you about it,
eyes, but never suspected that he
was the one. You know he brought me
messages several times from the store,
and was always pleased with his bright,
pleasant, courteous manner. He hadn't
the face of u rogue, Harry
"No; this was his first offence. be-
llevc the boy was as honest when he came
up from the country, as one ever was; but
he fell into bad company, and there was
AL end Of him. There's no trusting boy
or man after the frs, tLefs," and Mr.. Wal
den took up his paper.
His wife glanced sadly across the street
to the slight young figure which was just
passing out of her range of vision. She
remembered its rapid, alert step, which
had struck her little while before, and
tancicd there was remorse or depression
in the altered bearing. Then her glance
dropped on the sweet fnce with the wide
bloom in its cheeks, and the childish JOY
and wonder in its eyes, and her hear,
s-n,- r:,if,,i, 81 ----hed an. u;ih q moth
er yearning after the slight, bslfdroopiug
figure, which had Just passed by.
She though. Of him friendless, deso!a.e.
this youth, in great city, so full of ell
temptation and enticement; she thought
OF the mother he must once have had,
and who was jus. as proud and fond OF
him a. che was of her own boy; and in.
voluntarily this lady with the sweet face.
this lndy whom wealth and luxury, and all
that is good and to be desired in lifr, had
not spoiled, reached out her hand with
n quick gesture Of alarm aud protection
to her cLill.
The gentleman opposite her, with his
pleasant face and portly figure. and hair
little sifted with gray. caught the move.
moment and looked up from his paper.
"Whas is the matter, Ellen ?'
She smiled, half apolegetically.
IL wa. thinking, dear, what If that boy
was ours ?"
Mr., Walden looked down on his child
little touched. ...
II shall never plaae bim in the midst of
such temptations in my warehouse
'Bai this boy had to meet them, and
because he failed once, it seems to me
that it was hard to turn him righ, out in
TO the cold dark Of the word
Mr. Walden smiled little. 20, Ellen
he said, that would sound very pretty in
story, and sentiment of this kind is very
attractive in a woman like you; bat it
don't do for us business men. We've got
to be up to the mark, straightforward and
practical ...-
And yet, Harry. you business men
have had mothers to love you, and have
sons in your turn to love. That is straight
forward practical truth"
And then Mrs. Walden SAID some 9th.
er words for this boy. Perhaps if sho'd
write them now they would not seem very
much and yet they came from some hid
den deep of kindliness and pity ip. her
heart-a woman's words-sweet, tender,
ompassionate, and Just such as are Ger,
tain 10 find their way down into the very
quick Of all that is tenderest, and sof,rst,
and best, in the soulsof a man who loves
her. t@s -@ @-@ 8s'7@4 e..
When she paused, her husband said -
"Well, Ellen. to please you, III promise
to take him back and give him trial"
Mrs. Walden rose up, wen. over TO her
husband, pushed away the black hair sft-
ed with gray from his forehead, and the
kiss that fell there WAS the warm, sweet,
fragrant kiss of a loving wife. @ "~.'
Half an hour later 4I.acins Street was
,retracing his s.eps through, the wide street
Aanked with its stately homes, down
which he had wandered unconscioasly.
for some spirit Of unrest and unhappine-s
and taken possession Of him that day,
from which he ysinly tried to deliver
himself 49, ..@.....&~
Suddenly voice called to him from the
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