The banner-enterprise., 1883-11-10

! 1atner nau Openeu way Will Wuc
gate and an easy road, and so Kitty
stalked off dead.white with rage and en-
gagged board with her friend. the Lace
Counter, big, showy girl with black
eyes and yellow hair, whose mother let
lodgings in shabby-genteel house up
town. ..tl
"Of course | didn't want to leave you,
mother" Kitty managed to explain, and
she had the grace to lower her eyes as
she did it, "but madam complains so OF
the distance" ...aA- LtI.sJia..
1t was comforting falsehood, for the
faded blue in the poor creatures eyes
leaped into sudden, smiling life.
"Yes, darlint, an it's wrong yez are
intoirely. Sez | to yez granfather the
mornin', Kitty Mulaney's niver the gurl
to forsake the mother that borned her.
sez |, an sure it's home the child will be
aither comm the Saturday noights to
keep the babby from frettln, Mr.. Mu-
lanev; moind that, sez |. "
"Yes, certainly-but indeed, mother,
you should not let Tim 90 on so, with
an impatient shove that freed her rutfles
from his baby clasp. 81 can't come in
the house but what he sticks to me like a
burr-selfsh little ruffian.
Tim accepted his usual rebuke with
solemn eyes and quivering lips till Miss
Mulaney had given her mother ginger
| ly kiss and each of the odds and ends its
sparse duplicate; then sliding up to her
departing skirts, clutched them recklessy
and said, with wheedling ring in his
baby voice:
"Kitty, does yez want Tins little
pig?'
Heavens, mol Miss Mulaney had seen
quite enough of pigs to last her lifetime;
so shaking the dust of Stun Alley from
her dainty feet she went away to com.
mence new life in cuddy under the
leaves of house that boasted of barn,
of a parlor strung around with cheap art
in furnished frames, cheap carpets, cheap
chairs and time>blurred glass over the
mantel- cheap, yes, but it meant Orien-
tai elegance to the pleasure cheated girl,
and so for month or more she sold
gloves and matched ribbons with self
approving sullie.
In the meantime something had hap.
pened.
1t is not often that Fate drives to the
door OF impoverished beauty behind two
cloud gray horses with long drab tails;
but romantic things do happen some.
times, even outside of story books, and
so, when Dr. Jones stepped out of hls
polished gig one evening, stepped into
the shabby -genteel house to feel sick
lodger's pulse, and stepping out again he
stepped right into the brilliant focus Of
two Irish blue eyes shining in the door
way. Fate stepped in herself and man
aged the rest after the most approved Of
modern fashions that begins with the or
thodox introduction and winds up with a
ring.
Then remorselul memory startled the
GIRL conscience, and nerved her to du-
tiful visit home, and the way had never
seemed so long nor the place so shameless
as on that summer evening, after revel.
ing in the responsibility of a life uptown.
Grandfather Mulaney was suffering
from the effects of an understanding be-
tween the two corners; the children were
laid up-or down, rather, on fiabby pal
lets-with the mumps, and in the middle
of it all-the miserable poverty and dirt
there sat Mother Mulaney, with Baby
Tim stretched like burning coal across
her tired lap
"Shpake low, mavOurneen, whls-
pered the poor creature, wiping the tears
from her face with forlornness that
went to Kitty's hcart-and staid there.
"Oh, but it's the faver that's scorchin'
his wee arrumsl DO ye look at thin
an he always as fat as a mole; sure it's
,ryin' he's been aither yez; that bad, the
docthor said I'd best sind ye a message,
but mainded yez promised to come, an
yez dead broke me heart along wild yer
own word-thero, hist now, Tim, darlint;
do yez be slapin, not to know She ) home
at last to stay 2"
Don't wake him. MOTHER" she cried,
hastily and remorselully as well; "and it
will be quite impossible for me to stay to-
night; indeed-l-" she coull not plead
so trifling an excuse as an expected visit
from the hero her mother had never
heard OF; so, emptying quite half OF the
silver coins from her purse into herhand,
went on, hurriedy: "But | will come
to- morrow, indeed; and here, mother, you
will need this for the doctor.
"Shure, it's the comfort yez are when
yez do come, mavourneen; but the doc
thor, st. Pathrick' blessin' be wild him,
he won't take a red cnt from the likes of
me, q poor wildly woman with her ar
runs full o'throuble, but | Il kape it for
the mixthur the childer do be takin all
around; wirra, to look at thin, with
bumps as big as petaties; an how daft
the baby will be when he finds you've
been an left him"
''But will come tomorrow, indeed, y
she insisted, as she rose from her knees
beside the UNCONSCIOUS child, "and see,
Ill put this bright new penny in his hand
to keep him company until come; and
mother"
She tried to fashion some plea for de-
serting them all, but it stuck crosswise
in her throat; so, kissing her mothers
quiveEing lips, and allowing the odds and
ends to worship her to their hearts con-
tent for five delightful minutes, went
home quietly at last, carrying sore con-
science with her to her cuddy under the
caves. Yes, it was cruel to leave her
mother in the hour of need; it was worse
than cruel to stay away from baby Tim;
but what If she should catch that dreadful
fever, and it should feel upon her beauty
like worm that eats up the blush Of
rose
No M;as Mulonav nould not afford IN