Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-26

"On1y kind of sub to Mrs. Garrett
who's getting too old to do all my
work.
Where did you pick her up?"
why do you want to know?"
Because it's in my mind to borrow
her. Will you lend her to me?"
GAS a model, of course?"
Eyes. For my new picture. She has |
just the face want"
us there anything in it, them"
''There is everything in it. 1t is |
wonderfully expressive
81 must look at it next time she comes |
in"
"And her eyes are beautiful. Large,
1impid, and almond1shaped. She would
be useful to me in a dozen ways"
"I had no idea she was a wonder.
Make what arrangements you like with
Mrs. Garrett, Addison. Whenever she
can spare her, the child is entirely at
your service e
Mr.. Addison secured the housekeep-
ers good will on behalf of his project,
and for some days Miss Peg O'Reilly
visited his studio, and sat, mute with
establishment, whilst he made various
studies of her face and figure. At the
OAu VI tHdI ttu1S, u0 I0pedlSu lnS QuOo-
ton he had first put to his friend:
Where on earth did you pick up that
child, Ruthven?''- And Ruthven also
repeated:
''Why are you so anxious to knows"
| Because am sure she is not of COM
non birth. The contour of her features
and the formation OF her limbs. tell me
j so. She has the most deiieately formed
little feet, and her nails are flbert-
shaped. You will never make me be-
/ lieve that girl was born of roughs-'
did I ever try to make you believe
/ it?''
t mo; bat you're so close upon the mat
/ ter altogether, / half suspect, you old
1 dog, you know more about it than you
choose to say"
IF it's come to this said Ruthven,
laughing, II must make clean breast
of it. I have only kept silence for the
+ child's sake, so you must respect my
confidence. The fact is, picked her
up in a police court, where she was
| charged with stealing onions"
'tWas she Innocent"
/ ST never inquired. 1 saw she was
starving, and she told me she was
| friendless. So I paid the fines, and
] brought her home to Mrs. CARROTS
care. IF she turns out well, she will
want to forget the police court, so
thought it best to keep her counsel.
There is the long and the short of it,
sRuthven, have always said you
we're the best fellow in the world; but,
/ mark my words, that child is better
born than she appears. Can't you
L OH hor~
/ dentS?'
well, to tell the TRUTH" replied
Ruthven, shamefacedly, II have tried,
without success. Mrs. Garrett told me
4 the girls mother had died in a certain
work-hoase, so went there to gain all
4 the information concerning her I could.
But they had none to give me. It was
the old story. A woman who called
/ herself Nan o'Reilly, had come into the
house some ten years ago, in dying
condition, with this child in her arms,
/ and the authorities, knowing nothing
Il further, were compelled, on the moth
er's death, to bring her UP. Three
+ years ago they drafted her out into do
/ nestle service, from which she ran
away, and they had never heard Of her
again till I came across her in court.
4 Depend upon it, the child is. nothing
more than she seems"
/ az don't believe it. Besides she
doesn't seem so. She is starved and
pinched at present. but she will be a
beautiful and graceful woman some
day"
Poor Pegi really must have look
at her by and by replied Ruthyen.
quietly amused.
| But the look resulted in q wonderful
change for our little heroine. Ruthven
observing that his friend Addison s
| opinion was correct with respect to her
personal qualities. had talk with Ham
ilten Shore on the subject, when the
. lad assured his uncle that Peg showed
such aptitude for learning that he be
gan to think he should be doing her
an injustice by bringing her up in a
mental capacity.
There is no doubt she will have
|, beauty, and Hamilton says she is very
sharp. If give the child little edu-
cation, therefore, / shall be able, by
and by, perhaps. to introduce her to the
stage, and put her in the way Of earn
ing her own living, and any one viii do
to help Mrs. Garrett with her pals and
brushes"
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