Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-10-14
LET him gop' she shrieks, get him

through the loom, the muscular hands
drop from the throat Of the victim, and he
spurns him with his foot The blue let
tered bag has fallen upon the floor.
Go, you scoundrel " he says ia fierce
anger, but for the child think ! should
Kill you, sneak thiet that you are
The man remains crouched upon the
floor, ana looks about him in dazed
way.
The little girl goes up to him, and hats
before him.
"Did you want to steal papa's dollars
There's too many OF them, and you
oughlnt 10 steal-it's wicked. III give
you one" and she draws a blue rib3on
upon which is suspended gold dollar
over her curly head, and gives it into his
hand. which mechanically closes over it.
Eva" says her father, sternly ard he
reaches out his hand H. take back the
coin.
" Let him have it," cries the child,
stamping her small, bare foot, impe!i.
ously, and again her father barkens to her
voice, and drops his hand.
Go" he IS, cOnlcmptuously, point
ing TO the open window " Go as you
came, through the window"
The man, grusping the blue ribbon in
his ting rs, rises slowly, and goes 10 the
window, and clmts out He turns and
looks back, ana sees the child Eva stand
ing ut the open easement
4" was Starving he mutters, looking
at her
Poor man" she SAYS buy something
TO eat with the gold dollar and as he
goes away into the night she leans her
curly head ont of The window, and calls
after him in her sweet voice:
Don't ever try 10 steal any more, :"
Years afterward, Wen the child Eva
had grown into a beautiful woman, and
when the apples DIR pped upon her faith.
er's grave, and the Writcwashed house
in tie orchard had passed into other
hands, she was pr, sent at brilliant
asSemblage.
She was among them, bat not Of them;
She was there not TO be amused, but TO
amu:e; she was not guest but only a
voice.
WHO is she?' inquired the distin-
guishcd statesman in whose honor the
as.emblage had met,
Only my gogerness," answered the
velvet-r1Ucd and diamonddecke ed hostess
" But she has a wond riul voice" she
addei, ogelically, so had her come
in To sing"
"The statesman looked after her with
strange tentncss.
What is her name ~ he asked.
Eva Euom," answered the lady depre.
Catingly. as if she thought somehow the
name might be offensive, and should
therefore be spoken apologetically
The gentleman was looaing at the black
robed figure OF the girl at the piano, whose
I4rI,1 yrnipa ,pay thrill lipar n rpupb tho
room, and he made no response for min.
ute, and at the end Of that time he was the
centre of admirers and satellites that were
always eager to gather around him.
Later on, when the marvellous voice
was hushed, and the black,robed form
had vanished, as was expected with its
sound, the political star with his circle Of
satellites was standing near an open
window looking out upon the tIowery
lawn, over which the moonlight lay like
a silvery mist AS be talked to those
about him in his cold, proud way - for it
was said of him that he was all brain,
but heartlcss, Sc Ear rs the tender passions
were concerned he glanced occasional
" out into the night And in one of these
chances, perhaps, he saw the figure NOV
ing like dark shadow among he trees
Five minutes afterward he was making
his apologies and adieuS to the regrettul
hostess who bewailed the pressing bust
ness which called him away; and then
the star faded from its satellites, and the
very walls seemtd to mourn the light
Withdrawn.
Miss Errom, the gOverness, wandering
alone over the lawn, hearing a step be-
hind her, turned to find the star shining
upon her Ob>Curily.
He stood before her in the moonlight
with his barred head bowed in a kind of
reverential manler that bewildered her
After q startled moment IN which she had
involuntarily halted, she bent her head
slightly in acknowledgment of his pres
ence. and was about to pass on.
Pardon me, Miss Errom," he said de
taiainI her with a gesture; have fol
lowed you here tonight, driven by the
remembrance, which has never Tor an
hour lett me, of the great debt of graft
tude owe you
You owe me no acknowledgements
She said, interrupting him, and speaking
coldlv, while she drew her slight form up
hauuhtiv IN the movnlight' If my mu-
c has ntertained you, | have given 1t
because was hired TO do 50. / am
Maid goveruess in the house and Of my
own ee will would not have entered Tue
parlo tonight and with haugHty
inclination OF the head, she again made
movcmen, to pass on, aud again he de
tanned her by an almost imploring geS-
ure
Miss Errom. he said, =" beg thatyou
viii not misconstrus my motives Ia seek.