Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1890-12-18


of an Armstrong carriage.
Her heart beat fast us she saw the one
| whom she hoped to meet driving slowly
! down the steep descent towards Tre-
mont Street. fShe slackened her pace as
the vehicle approached. She saw that
| the driver was the one who so chival-
rously aided her, and she felt the warm
blood flushing her freckled face and
neck until they burned. She dropped
her eyes and advanced with most
modest bearing, until she reached the
crossing, then, as she paused for the
vehicle to pass, she raised her glance
with an air that was meant to be ire
sistibly coy.
The driver had companion on the
seat with him, and they were chatting
and laughing as she looked up. Her
ewes met those which had so quickly
gained the power to thrill her soul. She
smiled her recognition and-but her
smile was frozen into look of pain as
she saw the driver nudge his companion,
saw them both look at her and laugh,
and heard him utter coarse brutal COM
ment on her complexion that drove the
blood back TO her heart so quickly that
her head swan and she could barely
totter across the street.
| Click, click-clatter, clatter! and the
/ Armstrong hack was gone, joining the
multitude of hacks Of every description
that thronged the busy street, and with
it fed the single bright glcam of romance
which had come into the life of Judy
Grimes.
She was hardly conscious of her weary
walk back to Cole Alley; she certainly
did not know that cold rain was driv-
ing in her face every yard of the say, or
that her feet were drenched, and that
she herself was shivering with cold.
'No Daddy, amt hungry tonight,
she said, in response to the old mans
invitation to JOIN him in his repast.
''Thcre'll be enough for both on us,
judy he returned.
81 don't want nothin'," she repeated.
~ amt feeiin' Jest right tonight,
Daddy, and guess I'll go to bed SOS to
be up early and find another job in the
mornin'. | didn't find none tonight.
There's lots of girls lookin for jobs"
With that she retired behind the cloth
partition, and flung herself shivering
and miserable on her bed. She did not
explain to Daddy that she had spent the
time she ought to have occupied with
looking for work in going up to Park
Street to get glimpse of the Armstrong
hack driver.
Morning found Judy in a raging fever.
The cold storm to which she had exposed
herself, the insufficient food which had
been her portion for long time, with
the intense disappointment she had suf-
fered the evening before resulted in the
most natural way.
She crawled out and tried to kindle
fire to warm Daddy's broth, but the kind
lings wouldn't burn.
''Never mind, judy said the old
man, II can eat it cold. But you ough-
ter take some. There's enough, Judy"
But even her appetite was gone then,
and she crawled back to her bed, and
stayed there all day, scarcely knowing
how the hours passed. She thought that
daddy must be hungry, but she had not
the strength to get him the broth. The
truth was, daddy had taken the last Of
the broth in the morning, but paugs of
hunger would have to reach the limit of
his endurance before he would disturb
her then.
In Judy's brain was the widest jun
! bic of strange thoughts, in which Arm
strong vehicles, and jeering drivers, and
reproachful Dan Vokes were indiscrimi-
nately mixed up.
She saw many faces amid her dream
like vagaries, but all of them jeered at
her except Dan Nokes. He looked sad
and rcproachful, but never unkind. She
seemed to see him more and more, and
then she heard Daddy Grimes calling to
her. Night had come again, and in
another moment, as it seemed, it was
morning again.
"Daddy must be very hungryw she
( feebly exclaimed, and tried to get up.
/ But she sank back again, her head throb-
bing.
"If Dan would only Gomez she nut
tered. "If Dan would only come, only
come" was the refrain that kept running
in her head after that, and more than
once it was on her lips.
When he did come she could never
have told, for the first she knew he was
by her side, and urging her to cat some
thing he had brought for her.
eat, Judy-ye must have something
to keep up yer strength" said Dan,
forcing a morsel betwiXt her lips.
1t was strange delicacy for fever
patient, who had taken no food for two
days, but it was the most delectable, il
the estimation of Dan Nokes, of anything
that money would buy.
"IIave another mouthful, Judy" hi
urged, 81 got one whole lobster for dad
dy, and mother for you, cause cal'lated
you must be hungry. Eat, Judy, eat,
and ye'll be stout as Il pair O. horses afore
night! That's the talk, Judy! Eat
eat ~
1t is said a special Providence protects
children. So there must the simple peo-
| pie of all ages as well, else Judy Grimes
! could not have survived Dams kindness.
All that day Dams wooden leg stumped
IN and out of the miserable room, which
was the best home Daddy and Judy had
known for many day. He brought
them more food than they could eat in
week, and as a large portion of it con
sisted of the richest pastries he could buy
at bakeshop, he must have come very
near killing them with kindness.
In day Or two Judy was able to wait
upon herself and Daddy, and she began
to talk about going out to look for a
job.
"Tvc found ye job, Judy, that ye
can keep said Dan when he came in
that night.
"You found me one, DAM" she
asked.
"Yes-awaitin' on table at place up
street piece. 1t a'int a tony place, but
it'll be stiddy. They'll let ye fetch a
heap of nice stuff home to Daddy, and