Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-25

1onge-" he said. Then locking the door
upon us, he continued his rounds.
j turned again to the gypsy.
You must tell me what has happened,
dye. L do nothing Tor you. 1t Is
growing late"
Il will tell you. young man. It's grow
ing late of truth; / can feel the night
coming on dark over my heart, for my
chauvies all alone in the van across the
doyav. the river and they are young chill
dren. They do not know where their mother
is. They are waiting for her to come home
with their supper. But she cannot come
Are they all alone. dye?
"An alone with the horses. The dog was
killed the last fortnight. Ha! he took up
some meat farming mush threw MIN
with scmo poison upon it. The pitiful Cor
gious. They loves nothing the poor per-
son has.
When the yellow light fades my chauvies
will sit in the van waiting for me. but 1
will not come. / will not for the Cor
gious are slow to open the doors OF their
prisons
II will tell you, then, quickly, how it be-
fell. My rom, Mushe Hearne, shipped to
California in the spring to bring some vans
back which his brother left him by will.
Coming overland is slow travelling. It's
some time before 1 expects him. Now.
travels with some of my people. also
travels alone. As you may know, II Is not
eesy for me to cook the dinner, to care for
the horses. to mind the chauvies, dukker
and all. Many's the day ii Is little / have
to put in the kettle. or to fry in the pan,
eye. many's the day / have but a crust for
my mouth. But the chauvies are fed and
asks no more. Now, come l to this CAV,
the curse of the beng be upon it and upon
me for pitching my tent within sound of its
church bells. Here do / come to pen duk-
KERR. Here do / find foolish old Gentle
who asks me if his son has not robbed him.
Knowing it is the way of the GORGEOUS
for the son to rob father, father to rob
son. / answers that no doubt he has. There
on / takes some of the young mans hair
which the father brings me, a few threads,
and / lays them between the leaves of a
certain book. which is mine, and / says an
Incarnation. boiling my kettle, walking
backward to the water. washing my hands
behind my back. having nothing better to
do, for which silly dealings and the like he
gives me in ILLS in vonger, which is none
too much to pay me for being fool. The
next day do the same, and the next. For
each i gets the same luvver; nor would
you do 1t for less. If the mush would
make me fool he must pay. Now, on the
fourth day j tells him for sure that his son
is thief, that he has taken us money.
What does the old man do then but ask
me to come with him into the CAV that
may show him where it is hidden. makes
my excuse, saying 1 have my other en-
gagements. but he will have 1t that / go.
So jaws with him, meaning to give him
the slip. for 1 likes not his way. Once we
gets into the CAV 1 suspects something
wrong by the look In his eye, as well as by
his laying his hand on my arm Seeing a
muskro coming toward us. 1 thinks it is
time / am jawing. So shakes on his hand
and hurries away down a lane lords the
fields Now what should the fool do but
set up great cry and start after me as
fast he can. i waits for no more, but
being good runner. mends me my pace,
leading him pretty chase on down the
lane. Hal Now come the little boys and
the dogs after me with the mush and the
muskro yelling behind and the fields and
the woods getting nearer and nearer.
Dawdy! Then i catches my foot in a rent
m nv CAD nd I fall faf iy,o hon in he
gutter. with a crowd coming up all about
me- The little boys pulling my eases, my
dress. while the juckies snap at my feet.
Then. runs up my pretty old GORGEOUS, all
out of breath. and when he can speak he
calls me a thief for taking his money ha!
and mischief maker for setting him
against his son. What. then, does the
muskro? What. indeed. does the muskro
but take me up rough by the arm and drag
me here for no reason. Then do i learn
that the thieving son has given the vonger
back to mis- father. 'Tis for this that they
put me to prison
by the Gods truth when my rom comes
back he shall strange that old man and
his SON Bad luck be upon them"
But the money he gave your
Fool that 1 was to keep it about me.
They searched me-"
"And found it?''
MAY it burn out their pockets May 1t
pay for the bane which shall be their des-
truction when their children mixes 1t in
their food. 1 hates them"
Iley nave tueir money again. TOrnOr-
Tow. dye. 1 promise you shall go back to
your chauvies."
The attendant returned with the pris-
oners supper.
The sheriff says your time Is up. You
can come in again In the morning."
Tomorrow. dye, 1t will be settled In q
few hours. kushto ratti."
Tomorrow" Her voice rang strangely
in the lonely place. making me pause In
the doorway. But tonight. My chauyies
They are waiting for me in the van pardel
the doyay. They are hungry" She turned
to the keeper: Cant a woman go to her
children?" she pleaded.
NO" said the keeper roughly.
With an oath the gypsy turned to the
window.
Have no fear for. them. Mrs Hearne
They shall be cared for"
J saw her face twitch I'm the dim light
"Wfn you take them this bite of bread
Tor their supper? They are hungry
have been gone from the camp all the
day"