Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-03-22
JEANlES LOVE LETTERS.
her Romance Was Certainly q
Peculiar Ono.

Peculiar Ono.
Jeanc Campbell camc back from the
tallors shop where she worked and
found company of boys and girls con-
gregated round the doorstep of the tall
tenement house in which she rented
one small, back room. They were
hooting and jcering at man seated
in his shirt sleeves on the doorstep
placidly smoking q huge German por-
celain pipe. The man did not seem
in the least disturbed by their jecrs
and shrieks, but smoked on with his
eyes fixed upon the only strip of sunset
Sky visible above the grimy roofs.
Jeanic pushed her way in.
"What's the matter?"
"Yah-Dutchy! l'nt e blooming
soft! Give boy snillin' to go and
; fetch i'm something to cat, and is wiling
ere for In! Pnt g a stylel Wonder
'ow long he'll witc!''
"Who is hep"
"a blooming Dutchy! C carnt speak
no English, g carnt--'as to make signs
land nobody ere can speak nothinli
else. Pnt e asofty!'
The girl paused and looked at the
man. There was something in his
patient attitude that aroused her pity.
Some softer remembrance of the days
before she came to this great, wicked
London came over her. The mans
eyes, SO blue, clear ard bright, and the
healthy tinge of his, wholesome face,
smote upon her with pang of recol-
lection of the honest Scottish faces she
had left with contempt for their con-
tent, when she had started forth to
see life in London.
She went up to the man and signed to
him to follow her indoors. She tried
to make him understand that he had
been robbed. The soft, gentle tones
that ans xered her were quite unintel.
ligible; he smiled, shrugged his Shout
ders, spread his hands and looked al
her with that calm trustfulness one
sees in dogs and children.
She smiled, nodded. pointed up the
stairs and then ran out of the house
She returned with a loaf of bread ant
a half pound of sausages for him and {
roll for herself; she would make thai
do; he was stranger, alone and friend
less
She put the things in his hand, point
ing down the street as If to indicate
that she had brought the things from
the boy. He seemed to understand
took her hand and raised it to his lips
the action was so simple, so grateful
that she felt ashamed and ran up tn
stairs to her own room.
Her comfortless breakfast of n DIR.
roll the next morning made her lit
tie reqretful of her charity the nigh
before. .He must shift for himself a
have to do" she thought, and sh
went out to her days work.
When she returned in the evening
she found him standing outside tn
door He bowed and smiled, opene
his door and showed his various pun
chases on his table. He had evidentl
found his way round to shops.
She went up the stairs, feeling tn
least little bit disappointed that he di
not require her help any more. IL
seemed different from the iaded, WI
gar men and women she came In COZ
tact with in her city life. The air {
tbe fields seemed to cling to him still
She thought as she toilcd up the wear
stairs how sweet the country must [
Iool,inp now Was the sun shining o
tbe hills at home and making the water
Of the loch sparlSle-thc bonnie hill
chat she would never sec again? Frient
wore dead, and to tailorcss at twely
sb;llinps a week it was indeed far CT
to Loeb Awe. ,,.
Something was on her table, lit
.Lotcb of q sweep of wide hills, wit
Or forests clinging to their sides, Ii
tIo cluster of houses with wide owe
hanging roofs, and shutters in the Wi
dows A figure was standing in II
doorway of one of the houses.
"Th;s is his house." said jeanne
herself. "What funny thing to DO
rive me a picture of it! l wish cou
81 him back one of Loeb Awe, and o
house up on the braes."
Tbe next day was Sunday; she usu'
To- nassed the morning in bed, tired o
With her weeks work. When she car
I'm about the middle of the day S
80 him coming in, evidently in
Snndav best. Could he have been
ohnrch2 We'll, it was clear he had n
,aarned the manners of Eureka cou
yet onr.ss her thanks
locks and smiles. lie seemed to und'
s.ond and laughed, and then she fl
1w;th n ouick touch of dismay that
H,onced in surprise at her untidy DIRE
end towzled hair. Jeanne did j
a,;dv" herself until afternoons; tn
' ~ enormous hat and feathers a
.,rcb. becurled head she perambulat
.na adjacent streets in company wi
Ii Of her acquaintance, not yet
s;ons only ignorant, vain and crawl
~ n little of that happiness viii
soe,ns to all girls their birthright
' THAT same hair was in wrappers NJ
-sbe blushed as she recalled the fac
- hands were grimy, her face
washed WA HIS eyes noted it.
Thsv did not meet again during
- but next Sunday morning fou
Tsanie with her hair out Of papers q
.vashed. sha was lettering