The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-12
stu on the pavement, staring after him.

still on the pavement, staring after him.
Archy went back to his lodgings, but he
could not rest there, and soon he went out
again. He found himself wondering what
Warmers wife and child were like, and it
struck him that, as he had nothing else to
do, he would go around by Dix street.
1t was a small street of tiny, jerry built
houses, with their numbers inscribed very
legibly on the doors, so that Archy had no
difficulty in recognizing q. There was a
brown blind over the low half of the win
dow; but Archy's tall head rose above it,
and as he passed he glanced furtiveIy in, as
! if it were a crime 1t was small bare
room with no furniture but deal table a
| box or two and an old rocking chair drawn
up to the hearth, whose fire had gone out.
On that rocking chair a girl was sitting,
with baby in her arms rocking slowly to
and fro, and singing YEARLY, over and over
again:
There is not in the wide world valley so
sweet.
A mere girl she looked, but very wasted
and her cheeks had not a tinge of color
and yet it was one of the sweetest face
Archy thought, that he had ever seen. =
this was Warmers wife, perhaps he was q
lucky fellow after all
He wondered if there was anything 70
eat in the house She did not look as if
there was. But for the life of him he
dared neither ask her nor order anything
to be sent from the nearest provision deal
er's, and though be thought OF all kinds
of expedents for getting a shilling inside
the door that should look as if it belonged
to one of them, and had been mislaid, nous
fRH 8 ..
he thought, scanning the water spout
with critical eye, he might have clam
bered on the roof and dropped the shilling
down the chimney. He was nearly as tall
as the house already, and he could climb
like sailor. But it was broad daylight,
and at last-he had been lounging ali thi.
time in front of a small grocer's shop Close
by-he turned away in despair, rejecting
that, after all, Warner had had a day 5
work on Monday, and IL was only Wednes
day. He would go now into some quarter
of the city and look for work himself. Fol
works Well, yes 1t was hardly that he |
consciously made up his mind to do 50
But that was what he did
1t was a month later, and Archy had not 1
gone back 10 his old position. Neither |
however. had he found regular work III
be had gone to the right quarters, it may
be said, of course. he might have found It.
He might have been assisted to enixsatp /
and a dozen things. But, unluckily. TIE
poor are seldom conyersant with the mans
admirable schemes set on foot for their Re
lief, and Archy had a general idea that
philanthropic institutions only drove 40
individual from one official TO snothe with
out really doing anything for him. l. was 2
mistake of course, but one of the natural r.
suits of the division Of labor. Archy stood,
indeed, for moment outside the doors Of
the general relief committee; but there the
beautiful probability ot bis story Of hav
ing place a. omnibus conductor that he
had not been dismissed from. and ".
could not go back 70, owing 70 having
heard white faced girl, through a win
dow, singing the Meeting OF the Waters
-as related TO a credulous relief commit
him so forcibly that be broke
into loud laugh as he turned away.
But il was not CHEEKY laugh. Though {
be had given up his old lodging and been
sleeping where he could, the few pence he
70 earn were not enough 10 keep
him, and for weeks be had uos had q
hearty meal. A dull despair was creeping
over him; bat be tFanpsd b.indly or ask
ng for work. Till he faneied that the of !
,ials az different establishments were Iook.
~ On MIN Win suspicion. as one whom
hey bad refused before. And al the time
II knew ,nat re might 90 back - MS CD
'lsce. Warner would give i Up withouf
! marmCr " y gTlJge. LIZ was thas kid
u fellow. Teen he fanciec Warner gosnz
rome 10 tell 5is wife the news. aud then {
- fell 20 wondering now they we're zet
in1 Cd he fzucse6 Es would 20 and Gee