New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-06-17
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NIB 9ElE FISHERMAN'S BRIDE.
CHAPTER xxx.
DOVE AND SERPENT.

SSys send rom the "trouncing" point of
Which made itself quite evident
60 his audience, by whom he was al
ready tolerably well known in one way
OF another, and by whom he was not.
apparently, regarded with any too
sSStrtlendiy eye, as more than one NUT
TERED 1mprecation testified. ~ ,
Po Q. 9 little i beggar! be might have
"a cripple like as she u.s."
ana benz as it's first hoffence."
,fYGreedy old Warmth"
hard old william" and so forth.
1t was remarkable that. not one
appeared to entertain any doubts as
60 the truth of the accusation made
AGAINST aga the child, whose scared and
sS earful countenance and trembling
.olce appeared to be all ascribed to
Gne tact OF her being new to the bust
ness. g..
"She amt half up to it," muttered
one lllfavored fellow, with but one eve,
+ and that of oblique vision.
Shame to send such a one," growl-
ed a voice equally harsh and disson-
ant, though it was woman's. "Here
comes the mother; then she'll face it
out"
THAT her mother!'
when Nelly made her entry into the
court, and her fainting was at first
regarded as a complete stroke
OIL oa o+;p policy. exciting even an
emotlon OF envy among those who
felt that, on a like emergency, they
could hardly have come up to such an
effective demonstration. But Nature
asserted herself too strongly, and be-
came quickly too apparent to be mis-
taken by the eyes OF the denoralised
witnesses of the mothers agony; and
Aas they closed around her, and heard
her lncoherent lamentations and
heart-breaking EXPLANATIONS, feeling
of unmixed pity soon took possession
Il OF the better-thinking part OF the rab-
Il Die, mingled in the others with a SEN
| station Of contempt for the weakness
that should "make arrow about such
bit Of a job that, after all, couldn't
III P above a month or so, with the Re-
b 5rmatory at the end, and, as like as
q lot, let her off all together with eau
eon, bein> like as you may say
.H .ripple."
Id E"Hi, but Jafers says it do look
lack; it's a. out-and-out duffer, and
Il % mistake, and there's a gang as has
n ben dom deal ringing the changes
8sown there lately"
Y AsSilence in the COURT"
The child was speaking; her trem-
lzbling tones failed to make themselves
|Eheard, though the police court was re-
'~duced to an unusual state of quiet,
with the exception of such shufling OF
feet and swinging Of doors as are in
-evitable.
The magistrate directed that the
little girl should be raised in the dock,
above which her little head was hardly
visible, and the woman who stood by
her lifted her upon her knee leaning
against the partition herself, and at
the same time with one hand removing
the child s bonnet, and smoothing back
the tumbled tresses, so that the pale,
innocent little face was distinctly seen.
Accustomed as thepresiding gentleman
was to see all sorts OF countenances
brought before him, many strangely
Believed by the evidence OF their guilt,
he could not help being struck by the
wistful, earnest gaze Of the childish
little face that seemed OF itself to Ut
which it had been brought, and the
good magistrate unconsciously was
moved to listen to the explanation
which the girl proffered OF the way in
which she had become possessed of the
half-crown that had brought her into
trouble.
This was simple enough in itself, yet,
to those astute ears which listened, it
might be either the artless statement
of a truthful child, or the well-concoct-
ed tale Of a practised deceiver, trading
upon infancy and apparent innocence.
z They were more accustomed to deal
with the latter possibility, and it can
scarcely be set down to the blame of
men so placed that they involuntarily
adopt the worst aspect OF human dis
positions. .-
The half-crown had been given her
SO the child's story went-by an old
gentleman who came to see her moth
= !er one evening, to ask her for the ring;
yes, it was mothers ring-the old gen
tleman took it away, though mother
B gave it to him, but she cried after
wards; she said it was his ring. No,
he did not give mother any money, he
put that on the table for herself
Mother put it away, and said it was
to be saved to buy her shoes, but that
morning there was no other money in
the house, and mother was so ILL.,
Here the poor child's lips trembled,
and she gave a sob but she did not
cry-she was too frightened for that,
and it was as well; the magistrate was
hardened by the continual dropping
OF water in that box. Tears had no
:. influence, or rather a prejudicial one,
with him.
Ida went on to say that she had
prevailed en- her mother to let her
take the half-crown and get some bread
for their breakfast, though not till
her mother had endeavored to dress
herself to go, but had failed in the at
tempt, through weakness.
Then came the question since the
another had been so averse to letting
n, On child ont alOnn 1uhv II a n eho nono