Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-21

AFTER all. GOOD Dy-g00d Oy!
And. with a last weeping embrace, he
was Oft for prison. while she slipped
quietly out of the court and disappeared.
But the internal major pursued the
wife as remorselessly as he had betrayed
the husband Acting under his secret
orders, the gang Stunned, bounded and
maltreated her, and finally turned her
out of the wretched Five Points rookery
| which she had occupied with a number
of them
She was without money and reputa-
ton, miserably sick, and he weather was
snowy and cold. Nevertheless, she made
hard fight for it, occupying any shelter
that she could beg, day after day, and
night after night, and seeking cease
lessly, persistently, to obtain honest en-
ployment.
But it was all in vain. She had no
character, by way Recommendation, to
start with, so the major and his crea-
| lures gave her one. At every store, shop,
factory or household that she applied tor
| work, it was but to find that she had been
fo1estalled by information, secretly sup
piled, concerning her criminal antece-
dents, which effectually set to naught
her claims and supplications.
At last she was desperate, hopeless,
| without a friend and without home,
and in this pitiable plight was found,
one evening, crouching under one of the
high stoops in the neighborhood of the
Central Park by a policeman, who gIuf
ordered her away, and advised her to
seek nights lodging at the Eearest
station house.
But she gave no heed to his advice
perhaps being half crazed with her sui
ferings-but wrapped her BABY still more
tightly under her poor, thin shawl, limp
ed away through the fast-falling snow,
and entered the park.
Out in the snow, under the bare trees,
in among the leafless. rustling shrubs,
sway up through the hillocks, did she
wander in the iifeless, deserted park,
which then must have seemed wilder
ness, indeed, but more acceptable, more
inviting, than the peopled but heartless
streets, from which she Jared, with the
hunger in her BODY, and the despairing
misery in her soul. No one could inter
fere with her there or hunt her down, or
bid her move on, or laugh at her, or
taunt her with her past wickedness and
present frIendlessness.
Faster and faster fell the binding
snow, but it seemed to touch the earth
softly and tenderly, aftording her the
covering and shelter that humanity re-
fused. It was bitter cold, and she tore
her shawl into strips to more thorough
ly wrap up her child, while rendering
her own poor shoulders defenceless 10
the shivering wind.
Then she huddled closely against a
rock to keep off the drift, and cuddled
| up about the child as near as she could
creep. And then, after the storm had
slackened, the moon came out and looked
pityingly on the forlorn pair.
The drift whlrled faster and faster
over them to complete its work, and
then at last poor Jenny, the worlds for
| saken waif, fell asleep forever under the
soft, white mantle OF the snow, which,
like Charity's, covers each year such
multitudes of SINS.
The park policemen found her on the
| following morning, at a spot about two
hundreds yards north OF the Seventh
avenue entrance, frozen stiff. No stone
ever marked her grave, and four line
newspaper paragraph, with side head
| ing, unknown woman found dead in
Central Park" was the only notice taken
of her death.
The child was found still alive and
moving on the pulseless bosom that
would nourish it no more, but it also
died OH the third day thereafter from the
effects of the exposure, and that was the
last of them.
Scarcely week after this event,
Harnden was set at liberty, and it CHANGED
that was the first acquaintance he met
upon his return to the city. I should
have mentioned that had known him
from his boyhood, had depIored his evil
course, rejolced In his promise of reform,
and was now anxious that he should not
be tempted to GO back upon his good Ieso-
lutions, while dreaded the effect that
would be produced upon him by the
news Of his wife's and baby's pitiful
death, of which was certain be was as
yet totally Ignorant.
My own duties had taken me away
from the city during the greater part of
his imprisonment, or I should certainly
hove endeavored to in some measure be-
friend the poor creatures, the particulars
of whose miserable fate, as l have just
described to you, I had only myself
learned day or two before thus meet
ing him at the depot upon his return
from prison.
AS soon as Harnden stepped from the
train and saw me, he grasped my hand
and dragged me into neighboring pub
lie house, where we entered a private
| room.
"Yoa see ME return to the world a
changed man, McArdle, and 1 trust with
some years of happiness in store fo1 me"
he said, and noticed that he was looking
capitally, with clear manful light in
his dark eyes, "but tell me quickly
where and how is Jenny?''
felt myself growing pale, and could
make no immediate answer.
"Speak Jenny and the child-how are
they both, and how have they both
fought through it all2'' he repeated, with
growing disturbance. MAN alivel why
do you turn your face away?''
"Have you heard nothing of them?'' I
stammered, stupidity wishing to delay
the shock.
"How the deuce should I, when am
not two hoI1rc ont of holt and bor2 Toll