Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-13

Mr.. Beggs," said Mrs. Morrison, in a tone
I less loud than its wont. She looked back
ward athwart her shoulder into the room
] where he heard a low voice. But he could
not see within for the figure of Mrs. Nor
| rison.
"Penny's ont just now for breath Of
| air, said she, ''for Ehret's been but poorly,
| and Penny was up with her the most OF the
night. But come in; the district Iady's
| there, but don't you mind that, and Ehret's
: always wild to see you"
Little Ehret lay on achair- bed by the VIM
| dow, and young woman sat beside her on
| low stool, explaining to her the pictures
( she held In her hand. Sand so, said she,
"whenever he spread out his cloak he had
only to wish, and the cloak rose mp in the
air and carried him wherever he wanted to
60"
Little Ehret, who had for half an hour
| forgot her pain, now began to weep, and
said with sobbing: ''I'm tiredl I'm so tired
of this brown room-I want to go ont in the
sun and see the green fields and see the
birds!''
AnG then she saw Joshua, who, having
entered, stood awkwardly without word,
and she stretched out her long, lean arms to
him. Take me-" said the cripple, Sin
your great, beautiful, strong arms, and carry
me to the river To see the boats "
May, said Mrs. Morrison. "for shame,
Ehret, to plague Mr.. Beggs so. And it's
downright naughty of you, that it Is, to 90
for to cry like that, making yourself i'll all
for nothing, when the lady's been so good to
you and all; and she won't come and see you
no more nor Mr.. Beggs neither, il you're not
good girl and lie down quiet now and 20
to sleep"
The lady put her arms around the child in
quick gentle manner that she had, and the
child clung to her. 81 think some fresh air
is what Ehretra wants" she said. "Do not
cry, Ehret, and will come to you tomorrow
and bring you custard pudding that my
Mrs. Binny knows how to make better than
anybody else in the world. And it you are
good, Mr.. Beggs will take you out. Will
you not?" said she, and as she spoke she
looked at him and half laughed. Yet in her
eyes there was something of shrinking
gravity. He now for the first time met them,
and they had over him some curious inhu-
ence. Whether they were gray or blue /
cannot tell. They were of the sort that for
depth seemed to 60 through to the back Of
her head, and that pierced far into the souls
of others; much looked out of them for those
who were wise or fortunate enough to behold
it. The student discovered there in one
moment something that he had never known
of before. But he lifted little Ehret very
carefully, and her mother wrapped her in .
shawl, and the lady put in the pin and said:
"Goodby." Again he met her eyes.
Then he carried Ehret down to the river.
III.
"And what did you saw to her to-day, my
son?" asked the widow, as she sat in the ell
bow chair and looked at Joshua, who was
making toast for her tea-for toast is no
dearer than bread, and is always relish.
"She said good by and-who did you
mean, mother?" said the student, and he
dropped the slice among the cinders. In
seeking for it, he knelt upon the cat, which
he mistook for a footstool. "That was very
careless" said he. ''You were spea king Of
Penelope. Yes: did not see her to-day, for
Mrs. Morrison told me that she was out, bur
tomorrow will call again.
81 have been thinking" said the widow,
"that she would perhaps take it kindly if
you were to make her some little present,
for first came to think of your father from
his giving me six pairs of porpoise-hids