The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-21

] going 10 get something TO do
Toms eyes, OF that vivid beautiful tint
! We call hazel for want of a better name,
/ and which is rare as il is beautiful. fell
| tered before the girls earnest blue ones.
/ II don't know he said. irresolutely.
She shook her head a little impatiently.
Yes, that was the fault in Tom; you saw
I u IN those pathetic eyes Of his. that said
so much more for him than ne was ever
able 10 say for himself, and let you into
/ the secret places Of his timid, gentle s0ul.
irresoluuon was written in the lines OF
l MS mouth, OF his chin, yet IT was a sweet
| and iOvable face, strikingly like that
of poor Frank Miles when in his young
prime.
but you must find OUT said Rose.
in her quick. bright way. providence
| doesn knock at people doors to bring
work you know You must 90 and look
for il yourself"
ITS no good" said Tom. hopelessly
II don't understand anything but horses,
and nobody wants them broken I'M over
here. and nobody wants me either. I've
tried and it's no good"
Then go on trying" said Rose cruelty,
as she counted some stitches in the waist
coat she was knitting. Begin on Mon
day morning and stop on Saturday night,
bat go on"
London is a big place he said. heavily
ITS not much good to walk about it
All day unless you know where 20 go,
and some fellow mas said a word to in
sure you hearing. You get turned away
like stray dog come after scraps, and
10 doesn't seem TO be considered even
honest to try and earn your living.
IT'S hard, know said Rose, smooth
ing out the big, shaped piece of knitting
on the little table before her. 1t was
months and months before / found any
thing 10 do-and 1t was my own idea
hitting on these waistcoats that all the
swagger men wore last winter. And it's
wretched pay" she sighed, but little
as 10 is, il helps mother.
Tom flushed. He would have been
proud to take even copper home that
ne had earned.
The little room in which they sat was
very fresh and neat quite unlike MS
own home in Marigold Road. Rose and
her mother were poorer than he and his,
yet they achieved comfort and content
You see, Tom" said the girl as she
threaded her needle with pale blue silk,
TO put in the little dabs of color the
waistcoafs plain BROWNIES demanded,
IF you don't make a start the other
two never Will, and it's telling on your
mother: she is getting to look quite hag-
gard and old"
self. But Re did not think the sight OF
him In fun work would have any stimu-
lating effect on Billy Goat or Benjamin.
When they had been abroad, they had
been compelled to work or starVe. Now
that their mother had got them home.
and they could eat without the disagree
able preliminary of earning what they ate,
it was not likely they would exert them
selves.
Tom did not tell Rose this. If she could
not see for herself the stuff of which his
brothers was made, he was not going to
tell her. And he could not blame the poor
old mother, because her desire to see him
had taken him out of a state Of life in
which he was happy, and even success
full and planted him here, where he was
degraded to the position of a loafer Per-
haps his eyes spoke for him, as they so
often did, for Rose looked earnestly at
him, and said gently:
why did you come back Tom-was 1t
wise?N
For moment he was silent. Then a
great desire TO right himself with this
brave. pretty girl, who was the only CLEAN
OF sunshine in his life, overcame him, and
1T was this way. Rose" he said. "You
lpnow-you remember how, when the poor
old dad died, we were all chucked out into
the world anyhow anywhere, with only
mothers little private income saved out
of the wreck, to bring us all up on. Luckily
some of the girls were married Others
were engaged-things somehow fell out all
right for them, but II took time. and mean
while al OF us boys who could. tried for
work Some succeeded, some didn't. Billy
Goat (Rose smiled got the best chance
and went out to a teaman In India. He
rubbed along there somehow till mother
got him home-they don't hurry up much
over anything there, you know" he added
wisely.
NO said Rose. laughing outright. "or
he couldn't have earned enough rice to
keep him alive. To lie down and wait till
motto"
whenever he was wanted for anything he
was usually found sound asleep-rolled
up somewhere-and / can quite believe it,
Well, two of the others got berths in
banks They are in them now. respectable
members of the family, who look down
on us ne'er-do-wells, and we seldom see
EN-"
They lump you in with the others" said
Rose, nodding her bright head Indignantly,
and it, a shame"
Well continued Tom, II was always
a fool There's one in every big family,
you know, and never could do anything.
The only thing l could do. and the others
could do 1t. better than l could-was to
ride. And by accident I heard of a man
who wanted a lightweight who under
stood and could break In horses, and after
a bit here Tom stammere unaccount-
ablyI"after a INSTRUMENTATION the missus
could get me a steerage passage-I-''
he drew a deep breath-"I went"
Rose looked searchngly at the boy-for
he looked but little more. with his light
figure. his close cropped curly head, and
fresh skin.
And why didn't you go at once, Tom?''
Tom did not Immediately reply. He had
turned absolutely pale and a look had
come into his beautiful eyes that was not
fear or horror, or shame. yet 1t was COM
Rose" he said. almost in a whisper.
don't call me coward or a fool. I've
tried to get over 1t. / can't. l have a hor-
ror OF the sea. l always had and though
] don't fear death. something tells me
that / shall die at Sea-thats the only way
can account for my loathing of it."
Yet you went upon IL. and came back
safely said Rose, gently. which proves
that your fear of 1t is all moonshne."
Tom shivered.
Il didn't want to go, and didn't want
to come home" he said simply "and
that's the reason. And wish he paused
and his eyes fell on her face II II were
not for one thing, ! mean" he added. the
cold coming into his marble white face
that I'd been coward enough 10 refuse
to come home when Benjamin fetched
me"
.'He fetched your" exclaimed Rose
| sharply land who sent him."
1.-THE missus. He was in Melbourne YOU
| know and ! was a hundred miles uu
country from Sydney. She wanted us both
| TO come home, and sent him to me The
! man / was with didn't want me to come
! he couldn't replace me at "A moment's
notice and told me II I left him 1 left him
/ for good. j hesitated a bit" Rose could
well believe ito. "But you know what a
VIII OF his own Benjamin has got-and
he made me come
Poor boy" said Rose, softly and bent
/ her head over her work Was 81 70 hide
/ a tearH
! we had bad luck all the way along. -
said Tom, everything went wrong from
/ the beginning. then Benjamin had an ae-
/ cideni with gun az sydney. and / had
! 20 get "a doctor and he ran Us up "a long
/ Bill. and the money went 50 fast
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