Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-27

tition.
Good night" repeated she, "the little
one cries: must 20, hut sleep YOU welli'
And taking up the lamp she passed
into the closet, leaving La Bretonne
crouchcd alone in the darkness.
Stretched upon her heather, after she
had eaten her supper, she stroye TO close
her eyes, but sleep would not come TO
hor. Through the thin partition she
heard tho mother still softly talking to
lhe child, whom the arrival Of u stranger
had Weakened, and who did not wish TO
80 to sleep again.
Tho mother soothod and fondlod II
with words Of cndearinent that some.
how strangely disturbed La Brctonne.
That outburst Of simple tenderness
seemed TO waken confused maternal in.
stinct In the soul " that girl condemned
in tho past for having stihed her new
born.
"lf things had not gone so badly with
me" thought La Brctonne sorrowfully,
ait would have been tho same age AZ
this little one horo.'
At that thought and at the sound Of
that childish voice siokening shudder
seemed TO shake her very yitals, some.
thing soft and tender 10 spring up in
that sourcd heart. and nm Increasing
need for the relief Of tears.
"But come, come. my little one" tho
mother cried, "tO sleep you must go!
And II you are good and do as say, to-
morrow. maybe, I'll take you to the 81.
GATHERINGS fair!'
"The feto Of little children, mamma;
the fctc Of little children, you mcanr
Eyes, my angel, Of little children"
"And the day when the good ST. Cath.
crime brings playthings to the babies,
mammaF'
"SOmctimes--yea."
"Thcn why doesn't she bring play.
things 10 our house, mammaT
1--WE live TOO far away, perhaps, and
then-wo arc too poor"
"She brings them only TO rich babies,
then, mammal But why, mamma, why,
sayl should love TO see playthingsr
"Eh, bienl some day you may, II you
are very good-tonight, perhaps, II you
arc wise and go TO sleep soon
~ will, then, mamma: / will right
away. 30 she can bring thon tomOr.
row."
Tho little voice censed; there was n
long silence; thon long breath, even
and light!
The child slopt at last-thc mothor
also.
In Bretonno oplv did mot sleepi An
emotion at once poignant and tender
tore nj her heart and She Thought moro
Than over az tba, little ono whom tbov
said sho had killed. This lasted iii
dawn.
Mother chilli otiit slo,t b,tr.o pr.
tonne ,yns mn and AM, gi,tin, Ln,r,c,' Ia.
| ana Tactical, IN DO di,oc,{,n ~ A..
hcrivo md slacLcni,, hor naco oniy
whan ,ia d., L,rsas ~ No yiiIa.o co,ns
In sight
soon eho had reached and was trayors.
inc its only street. walking slowly nov
and scanning with ali her owes tho SIGN,
of the shops. ONE nj last seemed 40 n,
her attention. She knocked AT the shut
ter and presently II opened. A mercer,
ahop apparently. but nlso with some TOW,
and piaythings in the window-poor
nitifnl tri1e-. n pastelonrd doll IA Noah
ark. a woolly. stiff legged little sheen
To the astonishmont Of the merchant
In Bro,onne purchased thcm all. nnif
and went out. She had resumed IN,
road TO the howell In the wood. wbe,
suddenly a hand foil heavily unon be
shoulder. md she VIVA fnee 10 faec wifi
n h.i,,adi,r Of ,,a,dar,,.,io
The unhappy ono had forgotten tim
IL was forbidden to liberated missioner
TO loiter In tho neiehborhooi of m,
Maison Centrnle.
"Instend of ynRabondizing bcro. VOL
should already be nj Lnnures - anil ~,
brigadier grunly. Como. march, i,
off with youl 10 the road. 10 tho road
Isayr
She sourb. IN o,nIain poi,s los,
Al once a nas.iny cnrt ,vns n,csso1 I'D.
,o,,.i,a r., p,.,,,,,,,, i,,,,,iI,1 -.
ond In CHARGE Of a gcndnrmn once NOR,
ON ro,,o fnr I ang,os
The cart ioItcI lnnheri,gI,. o,or "a,
frozen ruts Tho Moor III prn,ann,
olutebed with n beartmoLcn nir Le
huudlo n, niav,hinss Ia ho, ,roo,i,, ~,
Gngcrs ''' ~ ''~'"'
An a, or.. N, n tue, -, cha ro, a..
rccogn,yeJ tho cross nn,h ,ha, H.,
throngb tho wood uer ha,r, Ia,no,
md she heaorgb, Tho ,o,dar,no e., e.,
onlv ono moment sho lad n conmiI
SION for In FIcnrio,te ,ho ,yomon ,hn
lived iust there,