The morning call., 1893-10-08
TIL g MAZE.
Market, Taylor and Golden Gate Avenue.

with the orange pressed close to her mouth.
After that l never forgot to have an orange
or nectarlne or some aprlcots In My
wagon when stopped at Barwell's. Some
times the milkcan would be on the stoop
and [ would not see the little maid for
several days. but when did see her again
would give her all the good things that
had accumulated in my wagon since the
last time l saw her. And good things had
way Of accommodating very rapidly at
that time.
Once when Mrs. Barwell happened to
be up early to get a picnic party success
fully off her hands, | saw her seize the
little maid and drag her into the kitchen.
And l thought she struck her just as the
door was closing. l grew hot all over,
and thought savagely that If Mrs. Bar
| we'll had been man / should have called
her out. AS it was, | had fancy that
it would do me good to get out and assault
Mrs. BarwelpS kitchen-dOor and fling my
opinion at her gratuitously and forcibly.
But neither course seemed quite feasible.
picked up my whip furiously and looked
around for something to lay it on to. As
could see nothing available for that pur-
pose but my patient, good-tempered
horse, who never gave me the slightest
excuse for savagery, put 1t down again
with resolution to make things more
even some day, though 1t never entered
my ridiculous head in what particular way
/ could accomplish the leveling process.
But the little maid got whole apronful
of the incest peaches and nectarines and
pomegranates in the market the next
morning when l stopped to deliver the
milk.
Some time went by until the little maid
had grown into slip of a girl, and would
have been pretty one, too. if she had not
been so thin and white as to the cheeks
and staring as to the eyes, but they, in
company with her other features. had
grown so starved that it made anybody
hungry only to look at them.
About the time that began to notice
these little things about her eyes aud feat
ures generally / thought she began to be a
little shy. The milk can always stood in
its place on the stoop and | had nothing to
do but to pour in the milk and drive off,
which you might say was much more
convenient way. But as day after day
and week after week passed and l did not
see her, it did not seem so very comfort
able after all. l wondered il she were i'll
or had gone away. Remembered how she
used to look as she stood in the faint light
Of the morning, holding the big can in her
arms. l wondered TX her eyes we're still so
big and wan and hungry and half-fright-
ened looking. wondered If her face was
so pallid and pinched, and IL she still
shivered so in the morning wind that came
up chill from the sea.
By that time quite pile of good things
had gathered in my wagon, for [ could OF
bear to throw them away, and thought
every morning that may be the little maid
would come out. l thought once of piling
them up around the milk can and leav-
ing them for her to find, but was afraid
some one else might come and find them
first.
So it went on till one morning just as
had filled the can and was going down the
path the Kitchen door was thrown open
with bang. and the little maid rushed
out, Mrs. Barwell hard after her with some
heavy thing in her hand, lifted up to throw
at the girl. Quick as flash l caught the
little maid in my arms and put her into my
cart. and jumped in after her. and drove
off faster than [ ever drove before in my
life, Mrs. Barwell running after us down
the street. But she soon gave up the chase.
Down the lane we dashed, under the low
hanging branches of the pepper trees, that
touched me softly in the face as we passed.
The breeze blew softly over US. laden with
the fragrance that drifted from the rose
trees that bloom perennially in the door
yards along the way.
Presently the little maid looked up al
me with face SO rosy that / should not
have known her had / met her anywhere
else. There was look half-frightened.
half-confiding. in her eyes. and as / me,
that look knew, all of sudden, why il
was that ! Tad missed her so. and why