The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-31
MRS. GREEN'S STORY.

please d0Hl send.
There WAS an uncomfortable scene in
the office Sadie Moulton had tainted
MRS. GREEN'S STORY.
1T goes hard with me to break my
word to her. but maybe you ought to
Know, Mrs Green was saying to the
detective from OsWald's store, who had
called to see whether the sick girl had
BEST be sent home or to the hospital.
Mrs. Green stood by her ironing
board, and the white frill she was
smoothing cut came very near being
scorehed in her excitement.
Ought to know what?" asked Miss
Sergeant, her face alive with interest
is the girls character not gcod?"
Character not geod?" echoed Mrs.
Green. pausing with her iron up!ifted in
the air. IN show YOU Yes. I'll let the
cat cut of the bag
What DO you naean?" was asked, as
stout Mrs. Green paused for breath.
Il mean this. ma'am; I mean being
beat and hanged about, and sleepin
down in the yard on damp paving
stor es on nights cold enough to freeze
the marrow in Your bones. and g0in
without enough food, and Wearln' leal0y
shoes in sloppy weather, and maxim
out as you likes to do them kind Of
things, | mean
Are you speaking of sadie?" inter-
rupted Kiss Sargent, beWildered by the
tide of words.
You're right. I is" exclaimed the
woman Sick is she? Likely to stay
sick awhile? Faintin' in Offices ard ar
rested for stealing? Come this way and
you'll understand better than I can tell
it to you
When the door to an inner back room
across the narrow passageway was
flung open. Sadie's secret was revealed.
a general dinginess and dullness dis
tinguished the boX-like apartment
WHAT furniture there was was shabby.
The stove looked as if about to topple
over, and as if even the mndest kind
of polish would be a surprise The
| cracked panes Of the one window looked
out on a solid lead-colored wall not
/ three feet away. Whatever light there
I was concentrated on the fantastic fig
ure by the window, an elderly lady i'll a
| bedraggled gown. With gay artificial
| flowers stuck in her thick gray hair
! Other flowers, some red, some yellow,
lay on the window ledge beside her,
and her withered hands fumbled with
some lengths of pink organdie and rib
! bon that was spread out on her lap.
You can look all you want; she wont
| notice" whispered Mrs. Green. She's
Sadie's' grandmarm- When she's that
way She don't know nothin.' +"
The woman was talking to herself as
she twisted and patted the rosy fun
merry in her hands. 81 think it would
! look better trimmed with pearl bead
ing" she was saying, as Mrs. Green ap-
preached her. Send her to the asylum?
Every minute that she's in her right
mind she's begging Sadie not to let
them take her, and making the girl
promise not 20 give her UP. She is sus-
picious Of every stranger she sees. If
she had seen you she would have COW
cred her face with her hand and skunk
off in the corner
I'D love to take Sadie and do for her
now she's sick" added Mrs. Green:
but I've got six mouths of my own to
feed, and Mr.. Green only earning 81 a
week, and that not steady. ( had
thought to turn the old lady over to
the city long ago, but for Sadie's coax
ing ways, and her paying of the rent
so regular. and me 50 hard pushed, but
I tell you my hearts bIed for her more
than once, and if she's to go to a good
hospital and be tended on regular, it
amt me goin' to lift my voice against
it"
The next day three interesting things
happened. A shophfter was detected at
Oswald's and sewed into the lining of
her kick" were the four 81 bills that
Sadie was suspected of taking The
NOAidA OMAeu w 70 uaN ing taken the
money from the girls pocket when she
was winding up the ribbon.
( Poor. mad Mrs. Goodwin. grumbling
and protesting, was carried, bag and
/ baggage. pink tarletan scraps and all,
and Mrs. Green tackled blurred and
thumb-marloed ITO Let" card on her
! back room door.
! In the meantime Sadie, ignorant that
| the event she had striYen SO hard to
( avert. had actually taken place. lay
/ consumed with burning fever on her
/ little white cot at the hospital. Did she
( recover? Yes. after weeks of illness,
during which time the manager of Os-
Wald's took personal interest in her
welfare. When quite we'll she Gvas ia
( ken back into the store and put in
| charge of work more important than is
usually trusted to girls of her age She
! buys ships Of ribbon stin and odds and
ends Of fnery and takes them over to
{ the old granddame on the island.
MENJ DA>J 0R GAMES