The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-06
JENNv'S GIRL.

". Robinson in the Minneapolis Tribune.
Something had gone wrong utterly
wrong with tho gas pipes i'm Wheatsheaf
street, whitcchapcl! The main had taken
tn leaking, or the pipes had suffered from
too much hard ord-lik many Of the
denizens of wlcatsllcaf street itself, for
matter and the narrow road was
open from end to end. All vrhicular
traffic was suspended till the new pipes
were laid down, hut as the street was a
by-thoroughfare. which costcrs with their
chiefly patronized as IA short cut
In Mile End Road or Brick Lane, and il
and courts and alleys h~crcahouts, no one
hut the natives Of the street was very
much put out Ivy the extensive altera-
tions.
The pavement what there was Of it
was still intact and OPEN tn pedestrians;
and, indeed, tine place mt nights was
brighser and lighter than IL had been
known for years, being gay with lanterns
placed mt various dangerous corners and
angles Of the earthwork a. warn chance
w~ayfarers from slipping on the footway
into caversous depths below. Every care
had been taken Ia shield the pedestrian
from accident. There WAS n gas
burning where the work had stopped for
the day, and where u reckless disregard of
the consumption WAS evinced ny q ragged
flame Of fire n yard and n hnlf I'm length
. blazing nag that liz the street till day
break. and there was old Spurway to look
after the gas, the lanterns with the red
glass and the candles behind the red
glass, the rusty lengths OF old pipe, and
replace tho old, and which were cumbcr-
ing the pavement just at present. and over
look where they are going plunged now
ard then and kept old Sptrway lively.
For q back street there was plenty OF life
women were forever fitting down Il, some
.nnece~sarily fast IA IL in dread of n run
in" or OF being caught rsrh.handed
chief ar breastpin i'm their possession fig
ures Of police. ln inform and oHt of uni
form; boys and girls ,oneie.s. or turned
honest pssoplc and dishonest, some living
in wheat~iicaf street itself, and bearing
esssinS Z; or out s'. a. H.. -, .rs d"or; psap 4.
up late or out early, men and women very
hard up, and men and women very drunk,
Upon ali these. atoms OF humanity jaime.
Spurway kept his small gray eyes, as he
I'm his great cont against ~ pile
business way az Il flowed past his
little coke fire i'm the chaotic street.
He might have been Dioeencs. with
command. Iss,rinR about him for nm HON
est man. 40 keen nn outlook did he keep,
ne In Rss o.a.wnri sss"cs"n Di"ssmcs With
great coat that had oncc belonged TO
bHtitNI tWutN- HE sIZe WtHIbIt4Nl Dtlt It'll
like a rug, and am old top hat which time,
half n hundred Of bricks, had battered
long since out Of shape. A disrcpntablr
ira old and shabby, aud with u coun.s-
wrinkl.d like gnome's. But he
was in kss:.pine with the general sur
whcatsiscaf street, and the life aud char
ncter pickering midst it's depths.
.n ai w r:;nr sss snd Fsnr,,ary ~ss.',S.i too n col" nsf
and on generally on i'm the small hours,
when late wayfarcrs glanced wistfIily an
before which Mr.. Spurway stn~rl and
his hands, getting himself we'll
through i'm his most Important
constructed shelter works. A new folk
might spsak Ia him en- psIssant, hut Inc
did not always answer them, and when he
did il was after N fashion that he did not
conversation. Conversation at
hour meant standing before his fire
ahd mn h;sp ,img ,,n me Mdrri,m, nim;mn
from DOING of "A bit hut sometimes there
were people who would not go away for
dark night as he was. One was n child
IA gawky girl of - ar 10 years of age. who
was evidently growing very rapidly ont of
she had onand that wasn't
mtich-a shoclcss. st~ockingless girl with "a
pinchcd, dirty face that locke like n little
old woman's, set back i'm the Possesses of "a
which had belonged tai her mother.
Between her and MIR. Spurway words had
been exchangs.d-on the first evening,
some wiliAs nigh WORKS Ol MT. SplrWlys
part, as the young ady had coolly opened
"A lantern at the ~rcInotcst distance he
tween her and its custodian, taking the
lighted candle out, scraped of the melted
tallow round the wick, "sleeked' her hair
with il, returned the candle to the lam
tern. and gone quietly down the street,
deaf to all the strong which had
followed her, till she turned the corner.
On the SECOND evening she appeared
again, and Mr.. Spurway, boiling with i'm
diRnatiou-which was not n bad sensih-
sion considering that thers, were six de-
Rreses Of frost registered ia Whitechapel
that night wa prepared to pounce upon
her this time and shake her, had She once
more interfcred with those properties of
the Consolidated Eastern Gas mpan
over which he kept faithful watch and
ward. But she went past i'm "a hurry with
her big bonnet very much OH the
hack of her head, and took no no
tice of him or his lanterns: she was alb
solutely running skippinR over mound
aud gas pipes like "a mad thing, and pant
ing as she ran. Mr.. Spurway sat down
again lac WAS AN apathctic old gentleman
and not easily surprised. hut he wondered
d little why b was cares.ring about i'm
thnt wild fashion i'm wheatshcaf street 1T
that hour. The next night she was brought
20 his mind again by passing on the or1po-
site side Of the way slowly and painfully.
she seemed i'm "a depressed condition of
mind. and was very lame. He kept his
eye upon her and his lanterns, but he was
doing her a gross injustice in suspcctinR
her ON this occasion Of any felonous i'm