The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-04-09

90 not see WuN Npi SlOulu expect MN ~
spare your fuGlings. Perhaps you will saY
noAt IT was lis fault That you took the
check"
mo, sha'n't. nut that blame whore
n hclOnCs-on the in'n TINT keep honest
folks ont ~ their duo. II tOuld have got
my nay had no need Ia DO what uid,
and | never Should have done IT. either
I'm not such scamp rs you thlnk me.
ma'aW."
what think of you is of no cotist qIcncC
MIR. Stebbins. Won come, believe, 10 r.
turn the money winch you misappropri-
ated. am here to give you receipt for
It,"
She sat down rs she snid this In an arm.
oman that was drawn up before library
table, and motion. d me TO take n sent OPP
posiie her. There WIS paper on the table,
and an inkstLnd, md Size took UP pen
md hold tSfo-HuwntIr~ IN 44uitr0so.t
OF way. | pulled out my forty dollars uud
tossed II down before her, not ~ civiily n
! might have Gone it. | n si confess. But
| WA. reckless for her hard way took the
las, spark of hope from me.
That's all I'VE got" ] sail doggedly.
Its only forty dollars, nnd The check
was seventy live. I've done my st 90
get tile whole of II, and If | was TO he
hanged for II tomorrow COUNT raise AN
other dollar"
She looked at me with those clear. steady
eyes of hers for half minute, ANA look
eel st aiLht buck at her, for was telling
her nothing but the truth now.
"Ot course, YOU know" she said pres
emily, that MI. Blackjack has paid the
money ont OF his own pocketY
YES, know II, | answered.
And YOU can't expect that he VIII bear
the loss quietly. lie has given you an op-
portunty 10 save yourself. aud shown on
more forbearguco uluu some others might
IN ms place.
Much more mau you would. I've no
doubt, ma'am. Ii takes woman to be haid
Il | "a
Her face flushed rs ii ! mad stru X her
and she glv" me "A look that mude me feel
Ike dIrt under her feet.
docs Offering eiatuitOus insult hclp
| to redeem your sclf-icspcctF" she asked,
gently. "ltlt docs cnu excuse Won more
readily perhaps. than you will excuse your
self, by and by d,
The look. and the words and tho tone
/ were so different from what Id expected
/ Tor answer that i was upset completely.
! The stubborn, reckless spirit in me broke
/ down somehow, and a kind OF light seemed
} to SHINE in, ] cnn't PVT II into story-book
words, you know, but l seemed 20 t,'el all
! At once that She understood ME, and that
he would help me II ] had tho SENSE TO let
| her. Somehow or other | contrINcd 10
stammer out an apology, and to beg her TO
| listen TO me.
III you'd only lot mo tell V, II how hap
| pencd to get that check, and 10 use il. 1
entreatod her. Mr.. Blackjack wouldn't
/ .iearn word-but you u understand know
you will, If you'll only listen 20 me-"
We'll, she SAID she would, and snc did. |
began AT the beginning, aud it was such a
! rci,ct 10 speak ont plan, after all the shut
ding and COncealIng Id been through
/ MIIu that l let my tongue run on III II
It would never stop. she stood IL like
an angel, and | might as well say here
/ that she looked like an angel. too--one Of
/ the sort that reJOicc III heaven, YOU know,
] when "a slIaer TcpeHts. Her eyes shonp
SIT aud sweet when l told her about
I Molly. anu somehow or otncr found my
sell taking out Mollys pic.ure presently
/ and showing IL 10 hC.. She looked It IL
/ and snied-the suushny kind Of smile
tLat makes ones heart waIIn-and she
sad:
ITS n sweet little face--honest. and SEN
siblc, and brave. II | were the nun that
I .cyed her would have no secrets from Il
/ face like that"
Wouldn't your / said. Not even il
It was such thing u tins I'm telling
your
Not even such n thing as this She
doesn't look like g1l II Al wound quarrel
with her lover Ion Il faux cOu4essed. She
would love You more for trusting hcr, ana
nave a stronger motive for bringing All her
good influence TO bear on YOU"
"lll tell her TINS very night before |
I Sleep | cried out. MIR. BiacklocE can 1
have mc arrested till Monday morning,
| ilyhuw, and I'll make u clean breast oil II
t. Molly bctule then
" 1t Is The best tnIng YOU can do she
SAID. " A. Tor Mr. Blackjack, NAV A,
well tell You frankly thai he directed INT
10 accept no compromise in this matter; II
you were not rendv 10 pay the money, he
sad lie should certainty nave you arrested
as !oh Say.
" expected that" answered, fororuly
" But | snail take it upon myself Ion
once. she went on, "to go contrary to lis
/ directions, oT rather TO Act independently
| OF them. on nave bat forty dollars you
say; well, l viii tend yOu thirty-hye.'
Aud rhe took out her purse and counted
seven fivo dollar bulls, then pushed them
/ toward the tolty tdat she haunt touched.
Now YOU have the amount required for
Mr.. Blackloci,. l VIII give you a receipt
for II, and tiust 10 your honor to repay
what lend you MS soon as Won are able"
She began TO write the receipt directly,
| anu put II into my hands before | could
! even Dlunder ont word OF thanks. She
didn't do things by halves, you see God
! bless her! / d du't either. 1 was ready to
please about II, but amt ashamed TO own
mat l blubbered right out thcn; and she,
! though She was such u line lndy-u real line
| hdy-and | was only a poor devil of n
| clerk that she had just saved from State
! Prison, she came round la where | sat,
shaking all over ami patted my big shout
! der with her little wnlte hand US II She had
been my mother.
There there, She said" there. there, -
soft anu gentle, rs you'd soothe a child.
| NOtn bit of preaching, TO grind the thing
iuto ne. Just womanly kindness and sym
pathy, and that sort OF noble confidence
That would have put heart INTO stone,
made IA man out OF "a Digger lnjun! don't
blaE on Jack SteDbins-not anything to
/ siqify-hut II he could have gone back on
trust like that he wouldn have been
worth saving from Sing sing or another
! place not polite to mention.
AT any rate, he wouldn't be spinning thi
long Yam about himself here Tonight lis
! Trclty nearly wound up, that's one com
/ fort. got home some time or other, or
rather TO Moliy's home, whore found the
Old folks and the boys gone to bed long
| ago. But my little woman WAS nuislug
the parlor fire still.
For knew you'd come Jack; | knew
it," she said; land know something has
happened TO YOU; | sec II IN your lace.
Nou might ns well tell me al about IT, FIRST
rs last"
That's Just what came for, Molly
And we had Il out, sitting there by the
h,r tnat she had kept led aud bright Tor
me, scamp Us | was The small aouIs
| Crrpt upon us before the story WAS done.
Tor there were good many Interruptions,
You see, and more than once Molly had 10
| have her cry Oul, with her head upon my
suuulder, Hard rs she took H. she hadu
u word OF rcproaoh Tor me, not one. oven
! when tod ner the meanest bit OF all, the
SnabbV history how 1 had tried TO sell her