The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-29
At last she gathered courage to touch

buy rose. -
o.fBut the woman hurried by as the rest
did 1t would not do to stand still.
She walked on slowly. Whenever she
caught pleasant eye, she held out her
tiny bouquet anu repeated her prayer.
Buy rosei buy a rosep oei,a IA.
But the sun was, setting, and she. was
opposite the City Hall Park, and still no
ione had bought her flowers. She was
growing desperate. Some one should
buy it. Jane should have bread that
night. lr
Buy rosel Seel Look at It'll See
how pretty it isn she cried, in voice
sharpened by hunger and sorrow. Looki
You don look at it, or you'd buy" ~
b These street-beggars should be sup
pressed" said a stout man she had adj
dressed. "Young woman, I'll give you
in charge il you don't behave YOURSELF
rs" He don't know; he don't know"
said Millicent to herself. Nobody
could guess how poor we are. Oh, what
hard, hard worldi'ials 4lgi#S u
Then she went on, not daring to speak
again, and her rose dropped a little in
her fingers, and still no one seemed dis
posed to buy it. .S1,R 81
In her excitement, she had walked
further than she knew. She was far
down Broadway, rand before her was
Bowling. Green, with its newly-trimmed
grass plot and its silvery fountain. III
A little further on the Battery, newly
restored to its pristine glory, and on its
benches some .blue-bloused emigrants,
with round, Dutch faces, and their bare
headed wives with WOODEN petticoats and
little shawls crossed over their bosoms
and knotted at, their waist.
AS they stared about them, itlstruck
the girl that they, fresh from the sea,
might be tempted by the fresh, sweet
pennies; but when she offered it to them,
she saw they were more prudent. 2
They only shook their heads solemnly,
and looked away from her. 9ei Fl
And this last hope gone, despair seized
upon Millicent. She sank down upon a
Sench and began to weep bitterly. The
twilight was deepening. She was far
from home and little Jane. She was
faint with WEAKNESS and hunger. Be-
yond the present moment all seemed an
utter blank to her. Che covered her
face with her hands; the rose dropped
from her lap UNDECIDED She cared for
it no more. Fate was against her, that
no one would even buy a beautiful
flower like that from her.
There were steps She needed them
not. There were voices. 1t mattered
not to her. Suddenly some one said:
"What a beautiful rosew
And the words caught her ear. She
e. r -
with bundles in their hands, were pass
ing by, fresh from the ocean evidently,
embrowned with the sun andwind, and
the ships roll still in their gait Sailors
were always generous. One of these
would buy the flower. She held it out.
"Buy it, please9" she whisperei
family, basg ate6eYqa1 RIO Aff
"Please buy this rosep' 49,.
t'i'm glad to get it." said stout
elderly housekeeping forward "What's
the price, my lass !? viii that do2'g
He tossed three or four foreign-looking
silver pieces into her lap, and took the
flower. Then looking at her very closely,
he spoke again: -,..,.-.1.-.. - ,sa
"Whafs the trouble, lass? Don't be
afraid to tell me. had little girl of
my o"h ohce- one ueau now. lelI
me, can help your t=ze
Millicent looked up. The mans face
was half hidden by his hat, and he was
stouter and grayer than her father had
been, but she fancied likeness.
lyon have helped me, sir" she said,
by buying the rose. Thank you very
much. My father was a sailor too; and
he was ship-wrecked."
ITS sailors fate" said the man.
Its TIME. you was getting home, lass.
This city is no place for young girl to
be out in after night. But Just wait. A
sailors orphan has claim on a sailor,
and my poor little Millieent would have
been about your age if she had lived" ]
"Millicentp' screamed the girl. "Oh,
my name is .Milligent Pm frightened.
I don't know what to think. You look
like him you Pm Mi licent Blair. My
father was Roger Blair. Is it dream?
Itcan't be true. m 1t can't be fatherp'
But the next instant he had her in his
arms, and she knew that the sea had
given him back to her illnmA
Wrecked with the vessel. but not lost.
He had been cast upon desert island,
whence he escaped. after three weary