The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-07

one instant In a fascination OF horror.
and then shrank into the farthest
corner of the coach, just as her father
and the coachman orderei the woman
away on peril of a policeman.
1t was a night of bitter cold; the
sky was frosty with its stars; they
drove rapidly on easy springs through
the streets, the cushions were like
clouds beneath them, the thorough
bred horses went like the icy wind it.
self. Therese. sheltered ia her warm
comfort and pleasure, looked through
the window it the haring flames of
the lamps, the fitting crowds on the
sidewalks, but of every face among
them all, that woman's took the place.
She wondered aboat it, and kept
silence, she wondered what had turned
it, SO young, into that horrid gulse,
she wondered had that woman ever
been a girl, like herself. happy, petted,
careless, and free. She saw a child
selling matches beneath a lamp post;
she had passed her almost every night
Of the season without ever seeing her
before; she shivered while thinking
how Geld the mite must be. She
caught the eye Of the little tamboar-
inc girl, sitting on the eurb-stOne and
blowing her tingliug fingers; she
longed to steal her from that evil
looking brigand of a hurdy-gurdy
player who held her IN such slavery.
She followed all the little noisy uUiJ-
ances of news-bcys with her eyes
she had never thought of them ia ali
her life as anything but irresponsible
creatures, like bats, and beetles, aud
common house-hies new she found
herself conjecturing concerning their
homes, their mothers, the sort of men
they would grow intO-lt had not oe
Cured to her before that they ever
grew up at all AFTER thet it wa a
long ways to MacNamee's, the streets
were of a different sort and poorly
lighted, there was not so much to see,
and she leaned back and thOuhgt of
Mrs. Meyerbehr's, and whether the
young German Baron would be there,
and what Maud Give, whose founcss
we're real point, would say to her
Spanish lace, and then she put down
her hand to caress the Spanish lace
and it was gonel lxfl aJaa-1Gsf
oh, papal my shawl that womanl
Ii is gOBel9 she cried.
Gomez he exclaimed. And then,
after a moment, with the testiness Of
human nature aud outraged pocket
book he added : Very we'll; if you
couldn't take care of it 10 stepping
from the door to the coach the sooner
it's gone the bettert'
oh, papa, how could I know"
she answered, with tears of vexatipn
ready to start. Don't you suppose
it is in the coach? Make 10 stop at
the lamp. please. aud let US seer'
Nothing of the kind here, my
dear. Nothing of the kind il the
cOacn- Taua
Let US go back, then; We may
Overtake her
q" AS easily as a will o. the wisp.
She has put 1t up the spout before
this"
Up the spout? Put my shawl up
the spout? Why, it would ruin it,
FOh DO, indeed a8f.t5
1t is of no use lamentIng. The
rese," said her father then, appeased
by her Innocence. IF it a be re-
covered at all, the police shall see to
it. Here we are. Now 1 wonder if
/ MacNamee Is II.
AS it happened McNamee was not
bin HI had gone with the counting
room keys to his masters house; but
he had been gone so long that his
wife thought he would be back every
minute, so wouldn't his master come
in and wait? And as the errand at
/ McNamee's was of Importance, aud
the night too cold for Therese to De
left in the coach, she found herself
I 1T-1o&lv nE&,----1 ~.w6- H.. nAA
all, in McNamee's kitchen, where the
floor had been secured TIL it sparkled
like a sHOw-drift, and was, In Mrs.
McNamee's own terms, clean enough
to eat from. > ust as the elder guest
had begun %heetOring the chubby pair
of twins that Providence had sent the
MeNamees, possibly for fear one at a
time should keep them idle, and who
sat, IN their absurd red flannel night
gowns, toasting their feet at the FIRE,
the father of the twins himself Gu
tered. He was il a slight breeze, and
wore a somewhat sheeplsh air,
whether from welcoming so fair
a lady in his domicile, or becau e
he had loitered and belated himself
in an ale-shop, aud, going on his way.
had recognized the carriage shortly
after it left the house, when he had
darted across the roadway, aud en-
seoncing himself on the back OF it.
had enjoyed quite a comfortable
drive, tin he dropped Of just a square
away. However he Immediately
plunged into business with his master,
and Thsrese sat, unnotIcad and for
gotten, looking into the fire IN the
place of the twins, who had been
swept off to bed out of hand. She