Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-09-30

bed In the corner, and the elijah child
| With the blsck bair playing cards
! with Q slatternly looking girl a.
the deal table by the faint
Iisht of tallcw candle. They both spranf
70 their feet Is the strangers entered, ano
the elfish child pushed broken chair w
sullen manner toward Mr.. Cation, while
the other girl shuffisd into far corner o.
che room, and eroached down like dog
The noise of their entry awoke the has
from an uneasy slamber into which she
had fallen, and sitting up in bed, she hud
died the clothes round her, and presented
such a gruesome spectacle that Cation In
voluntarily recoiled. Her white hair wa
all unbound, and hung in tangled masses
over her shoulder in snowy profusion
Her face psrched and wrinkled, with th'
hooked nose, and besdy black eyes, like
those of a mouse, was poked forward
and her skinny arms, bare to the shoulder,
were waving wildly about as she grasped
at the bedelothes with her claw-like hands
TIE bottle of square and the broken cur
Law beside her, and filling herself 9 dram,
she Tapped il mp greedily. Some Of 1t went
the wrong way, and she was seized with Z
paroxysm Of coughing, which lasted TIL
the elfish child shook her mp and took the
cup from her.
i'Graedy old beast, 7" muttered this ami
able infant, peeriug into the cup ye'o
drink the Ysrrer dry, b'lieve."
Go q ELL" murmured the old woman,
feebly. "who's they, L'zsir" she said,
shading Der eyes with one trembling hand,
while she looked at Cation and the dstec
tive.
Lizsr, suddenly. Come to see yer turr
up yer toes "
''I amt dead yet, ye waelp," snsrled
the bag with su den energy; AN II git
up Ill turn up yer blarsted toes, cuss ye. u
L,zsr gave q shrill laugh of disdsiu, and
Kilsip stepped forward.
"Noue Of this" he said, sharply, taking
Lizer by one thin shoulder, and pushing
her over to where the other girl wa
croucbing; stop there till tell you 70
nova"
Lrzsr tossed back her tangled black
hair, and was about to make some impu'
dent reply, when the other girl, who was
older aud wiser, PIT out her hand, ano
pulled her down beside her.
Mean while, Cation was addressing him
-elf 20 the old beldsme in the corner.
You wanted to see meV'
he said gently, for not
~ithstanding his repugnanee TO her, sh'
va. after all, q woman. aod diving.
'sYss, blsrst ye," crosked Mother Gu''
tsrsuipe, living down and pulling the
greasy bedclothes mp TO her neck. YOU
amt q psrson?" with sudden suspicion
No, AN a lawyer"
81 aiu't a-goin' to have the cusset par
sons a-prowlin' round ERE" growled the
woman viciously. ~ amt s-goin' to di'
vet, cuss We; Pm going to get well an
strong, an ave good time OF it."
Pm afraid you won't recover" ssic
Cation, gently. ''You had better let me-
seud for doctor"
mo, shsu't," rssorted the bag
aiming blow at him with
all her feeble strength. II ain
,-goiu' to have my inside spipd with sal
aud senner. Idou't want neither parsons
nor doctors. don't I wouldn't ave
Iasyar, only Pm thiukin' Of maxim my
will, sm. blsrst it"
'Mind I gifts the watch" yelled Liz'r,
from the corner 'If YOU gives it to Sa
I'll tear her eve. out
"Silencep' said Kilsip, sharply, and, with
4 muttered curse, Lizer sat back In hel
corner.
"Sharper than q serpent's tooth, she
are" whiued the old woman, when quiet
vas CO more restored THAT young
devil ave fed at my 'ome, an now she
turns. cuss her"
"well-w.ll," sail Csltoa, rather i'm
patiently. what is it you wanted to see
NE sboutw
Don't be in such 'urry, ssid the bag,
With = seowl, "or Pm blamed if tell you
ANYTHING, s'elp me c."
she was evidently growing very weak,
N Cslrou turned to Kilsip and told him In
whisper to get doctor. The detective
acribbled Q note on some paper, and, CIV
ing il to Lizar, ordered her to take 1t
At this the other girl arose, and,
putting her arm in that of the child's,
thew left togsther. =,
Them two young 'susssys gone? said
Mother Guttersnipe. Right you are, foi
I don't want what I've got to tell to gel
into the noospsper, I don't.
And what is up" asked Cation, bend
ing forward.
The old woman took another driak O.
gin, and it seemed to put life into her, 70
she sat up in the bed, and commenced Il
talk rapidly, as though she were strait
of diving before her secret vast old.
you've been ere sforeP" she said, point
ing one shiny fuger at Cation, land yor
wanted to fiud out all about FER; bot you
didn't. blarst We. She wouldn'tlet me tell,
| fnr she was slwsys proud ade, a-founc'
in round while her pore mother was q,
starvin'.
'Her mother! Are you Rossuns Moore's
| uotherP" cried Cation, considerably aston
| ished
MAY die if I amt" crosked the bag
'Er pore father died of drink, cuss 'lm,
| an Pm a-follerin' i'm to the same place IN
The same way. You weren't about town
in the old days, or you'd "a bin after her.
blarst ye." ~
"Ths VERY girl" she answered. 'She
we're on the stage, she were, an nv
eve, what q swell she were; with all tbs
coves a-dyin' for Ter, an she dsncin' ovel
heir black carts, cuss 'em; but she was
allsys good to me till e came"
"Who Gamer"
"Ep' yelled the old woman, raising
herself on her arm, her eyes sparkling with
vindictive fury. "'E, a.comio' around
with di'mouds and gold, and s-ruinin
ruy pore girl, an how 'e's 'eld
is bloomin' 'esd up all these
years as if he were q saint, cuss 'im-cuss
'imr
"who does she mean?" whispered Gal.
ION to Kilsip.
"Meapr' screamed Mother Guttersnipe,
whose sharp ears had cauehs the muttered
question. why, Mark Frettlby"
Good GOdp Caltop rose up in his
astonishmeut, and even Kil-ip's inscrut-
,ble counter ,ncs displayed some surprise
"Aye, e were 8 swell in them DAYS,
pursued Mother Guttersnipe, and e comes
s-philsnderin' rouud my gal, bla st i'm,
an seduces 'er. and leaves FER aud 'er
child to ssarvs, like black 'esrted villain
Is e were.
'SThe child! Her nameW
''Bah. " retorted the bag, with scorn.