The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-01-19

Ellis looked at Elizabeth steadily a moment
as if he would say more But instead he
said a quick good-by. and was gone.
Well Did you ever said Miss
Bessy A minister St Paul said
something, didn't he about being all
things to all men? However he looks
like an angel
st. Paul?
No; this man. He is Elizabeth.
do you believe hc-well never have been
in the habit of seeing minister starve
himself for the sake of the poor. mean
to ask him To tea a. soon a. that plum
cake mellows-'
He won come-unleSs YOU say we re
heather and need his missionary work
Perhaps We are-oh We are
IN say anything. And IN have
roast duek and salad, and pomme de terre
an mash and hot mullins and ereamed
whips Or would you haye-I shah send
him round dish of chicken salad this very
night shall tell him to bring some Of
his parishioners here to fatten-that .iri.
for instance. what did he say her name
vas Mary-Marian-Keiehly let rs
have game of desperation while am
planning il all out
- So"n after the lecture II You
don mind, Aunt Be>Sy, had rather 90
out Ia walk If any one c.n walk uu this
pow,lery stuff without sidewalks
Wear yoIr arcti,S Elizabeth
Not exactly said Elizabeth. louking
at her little foot
You remember that if You tonne down
with . pneumonia out here there l. uo enc
but me to take care of you.
That s true poor Aunt Bs--sy You
dear cheerful example, will wear my
artic~ /, doesn matter in the least
whether one dump, along on Indian clubs
Well. don't know Ii, dry snow.
And it l. ,ueh q pretty f,-,--jt does seem
shame-~har a silly old woman YOUR
Aun, B,->y H. Bul ! think sandal, viii
d.
Elizabeth had been saving herself from
something Ike desperation by refusing To-
think Il hcT own affair and her, was
~am-thiag cl-e 10 think 1T y she went
alon4 through the wr.d. her tunuod u
dissatisfaction gradually subsidized Why
hayrB come this way before she
,ail ~ ou othcr Friday afternoons, she
remembered IL III had guur night she
uanld bc walking mp from Musie tall u,th
a sryat bunch of yinlcts on her o,a, huyin.
ehoo1ats- az lluyicT i"'kln- into &c
ls-i windows and meeting JACK Dart
uiouth and Lawrence Rerkeley ou the sun
ny side Il the Avenue. al with the ringing
IS ev,aI music iu her ear bat uow the
~..l3 signing of the winter air thn'ush the
i5T iIuetoIe uas a muslr ~ u-clt Ihe
fsatherv -e,si -y,-~-.'l,. the nd hcTri,> anil
th,. bluc ones She Wlthered @raS~,S urrs
. B.syeliy after the, eternal vi,let, and
the squirrel Ike . -treal ui l-.ht thT Hoek
sf S,tliH, the Aac JAY the liitlc black 1n,i
white uao,lp.,skcr~ the dsr,in. mink. we're
a. Interesting fer ,.nce 10 a way - say
-tp]ler~ "u thy Avenue And surely n''
sky ia town was =, Niue A. ,he-s glunFss-
"f heaven thpuugh the singing pines
Elizabeth iound herself pr,-~cully in state
af great y,aip.~urr. aud tcsliug thc parity
ut the ar moys inyi-sraiinc than ANY
champagne. she in-i sviitly over the gri,p
,r,1.t. and voudcr,,l II bong aeo she we're
yuuRg Indian giri on her ,now sh,s-, and
in e,..d humog with hrrs-lf. -hr came out
presently where the bridge cr~-,,d the
river and che village las on the other side
che httle manufacturing village making u~s'
II the water power TeoTic,i by ih,-c who~s
affair. wsrr e,uuccTcj vi,h the mill, aud
which until to-day had had M intcu~, for
her
\ boy packed up The stump og q ,lill
smoking cigar frlm the ,n"w trddcR .ide
walk snd putting it between hi- lips chang
rd the curren, Il Elizabeth +, feelings
Bus he had -.-ru tae same thing ia Town
without noting ii She mastered her d.
s1ls enoueh e. ask HIM II he knew the
p.Fzoa she was loklng for Yep he
answered Down Bnlch Alley 6rsI turn.
up Wrcn Cove and inter the Court, and
down the hack suIleT number three ,arr :
. urearhin aud be- winkel a, he went hi-
wicked WAY Far moment Elizabeth
f,uirr,-d the possibilities regarding this
little fellow. neS,liug care which she aud
her Annt Be-ssy could b,siow, and - rescue
him soal and bo.iy but presently the diff
eulty oi making her way IN the thaw, where
the foo,ing uas half Ice half slush where
the women threw out their sud. and their
garlasc. diverted her thoughts and she
was caught up into irs-h wonder BY the
horde 1t Shlvering blue messed children. hall
clad girls carrying bluer messed babies about.
+ babies almo~i a, big A. themselves. with
boys fighting and running and sliding nu
the one Bit Of clear lee. the air fun of their
vile little cries. their unskilled oaths. ana
curiau> lingo. ~ that she felt H. IL she bad
reached the outskirts Of a place Of imps-
only IL ; tdo rnld though Elizabeth a she
asked further direction got contrary IN.
struetion. and balanced the probabilities.
She had distinct fear Of the little Great
ur,, a. she stepped among them, and they
knew it. perhap, from her large disapproy
in. eye~. and now they threw an opprobri
ous word after her aud now handful d
the ,now and mud, She hurried at las
into half ruined wooden building who's,
door was open; it was not up Bulch Alley
or Wren's Cove. hut she thought it NIGH
be the one I'm indescribably oifensiy,
o,lor of boiled cabbage and stale apples ans
fish and >oapSuds filed the long narrow hall
way: it made her feel faint iill she recalled
herself with the sharp thought of the Peo
ple here having no other air to breathe; an,
She held up her skirts and picked her wa,
10 the third flight which the low drone u
a sewing machine and the eyes of the las
airl who had directed her made her fee
was the right spot--if 50 bad a spot coul'
be right for anything She raped at th'
door. but no one seemed to hear her an,
She opened il and went in, and found her
self IN small square room, whitewashed
clean. bare foored. with bed ON which
white faced woman lay, with girl onl,,
les white at a sewing machine, the smalles
conceivable fire in the smallest conceiyabl
stove. and one spare chair. Elizabeth sa
down breathlessly. What did !; mean
.be ,sLed herself. This girl as gentl