The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-10

else SbOulu Dc Olu Inafus, too, soiu t"o
woman with laugh. $50 he ana L
he's butler-got married on the sly. and
while she was abroad the baby came, ana
his mothers getting too old to be both
cred with it, ~
"I'll take him." said Tilly. "Oh, do,
aunt an I'll stop at 'opo an do lot of
needlework for you, wall. oh, do
The stranger was net "A fond mother; II
she had been. perhaps she would hardly
have contlded her child TO lilly. who
looked what she was, or even worse
But the bargain was concluded. Shil-
llngs ratified into Mrs Winters ready
palm, and aunt and niece were left
alone together.
''She isn't much of mother" said
Mrs. Winter. "Stnl, it'll bo a help.
Mind, I'm not goin' to have the bother OF
the brat nor your uncle isn't neither.
You'll have TO stop at home nights an
mind 1T, or give 10 something To quiet II
IL you do go out. A drop of your own
comfort" she added with "a sneer.
Tilly, who had been .cooing with va
cant smile of bliss at the baby turned
fiercely on her.
Hush you wicked woman " she said.
"Comfort-I'm what comes of that sort
of comfort-an your sort of mothering.
Look at meP -
1--WE done my duty by you, TiIly, !"
said her aunt In IA level voice, looking as
"We'd better get things rcady for the
child: it's time he was in bed.
Before long the wDito wings had re-
solved themselves into mortal infants
sape, aud tho angel crown into tangle
Of curls; but lilly sat supremacy happy
for the moment beside hastily arranged
crib.
ssComin down to your supperY" said
her aunt, who was in good humor; but
Tilly would not come She sat and
thought-a strange tumble of thoughts
of school hymns. OF the police station, OF
The inexplicable tales of changed liyos she
had heard at the Army and elsewhere.
Then
"Oh baby, baby, baby"l She threw
herself on her knees and put bor SCARED
forehead on the little hand. You dom
know nothing about the police station
nor poor George treating me, though
George meant it kind-nor that frst-
Ii don't make no difference TO you what
sort am: But won't 10 that sort no
more-I'Il be baby's Tilly, an you'll be
Tilly's angel. like In the picture books.
Oh. baby, won't your
The baby's grandmother b,ino, IL ap-
peared q particulars very particular
baptist, had declined to allow that little
"vessel of wrath" to be introduced into
any visible church while under her roof.
So Mrs Winter was, the mother said,
-
Tiily, feeling her own gentility ques-
tionable and longing to display the baby
To n really appreciative eye, took it in It's
white pelisse TO maiden lady's house
and asked her opinion on the point
"Oh. miss, she said eagerly. let 1t
be a good name Somethin' out OF book,
that we couldn't think OF. "
The lady's eyes resting on Tilly and
the baby, filed with tender tears. Iilly
thought It was because she had lost her
first love, and so never married and had
my children but really it was the sight
Of Tilly's own faoa and the baby's
pressed fondly cheek to check, SO close
and so remote.
She considered minute, and then she
said:
'You told me you thought the baby was
m angel when you first saw him.
$50 did, miss" said Tilly land so 1
do, pet y she answered to the baby.
"1hen call 1t 'Angelo'-that's an
italian word for angel "
n-gel. Or lilly repeated triumphantlH.
"Ah. miss. that's prime"
Iilly always adhered to her own theory
of Italian pronunciation, even when she
proudly stood godmother In church.
Its not. i" said the Clergyman, "your
ohild?"
Miner" said Tilly, cloquently. and
laughed sobbing laugh.
Chapter III.
FLOWN UP.
For time Angel O was Tilly's world.
She lived, moved and had her being in
him. She did needlework, which her
aunt sold profltably, sitting by his cot at
night feasting her ears on the sound Of his
soft breathing, and her eyes by an occa-
sjonal look at his little rose flushed ,cheet.
She drank no spirits and very little beer.
She took the baby to the church where
he had been baptized and whore he un-
angelically scandalized worshipers ~
pointing an obstinately recognizing finger
at the clergyman with a shout OF "Man-
mani"
She hired "pram" and took Angel O
for airings but scurried him hastily
through the streets where she was known,
and therefore likely to be jeered or
tempted.
lie was a fragile little flower, delicately
pretty and strangely Intelligent lilly
trmly believed that he knew oil about
herself, because once when she took him
into public house he screamed so
ceafingly that she had to carry him out
Instantly; and another time at a
friends" house "a fiat green bottle being
Hospitality passed TO her he beat 10 down
with his tiny lists and with angry cries.
Angel or said Tilly, softly. hiding ber
face on tee fair curls-"Not today, thank
you, Mrs. 'Obday.
''What a way to bring IN child :" said
Mrs. Holiday in disgust, as her own in
FAINT sweetly yearned toward the gin bot
tis ,.,, ,
Like her kinu, she was creature of inn
pulses. She had a ra.her lucrative job
offered her for two hours in tho evening
at a public house where tho lnndlady was
an old friend OF hers She wanted to pur-
chase for the baby suporlative palo bluo
pelisse she had seen Mt "a wardrobe dealer S
and fine white morocco shoes
Her aunt pressed her tn go with
precious promises rs TO care Of tho baby,
and sho felt tolerabiy easy on the ao-
count. But the atmosphere was roo much
for her, and though she was always sober
enough 10 walk home steadily tho flrs5
watchfulness OF her love was drugged
asleep.
S One day, rs she was going 10 her place.
nm old neighbor Ebonezer jenkins
mother, who now livcd in the next street,
s,opped her.
"Iilly." she said. 81 amt on speaking
terms with your aunt, you pretty well
Know why; and can't ask you into the
house COS father Is that fidgety about the
children on'y keepin' comp'ny with tee
:otalers. But you nursud my Ebenezer
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