New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-05

temporary visit until We should De apie 10 Turn
around a Bit But"-with another sigh-"hes
there yet"
Misc I.ascelIes nodded, with an air Of utter
wisdom.
"Of course, you went often to- see the childT
whenever I was in town. And found him al.
ways the same 50 beautifully cared for that,
upon my soul, 1 never saw a baby in my life
so sweet and clean and wholesome looking; jolly
as little sandboy all the time. too"
THAT means that he had a perfect constitu-
tion inherited from you. evidently Ana you
were fortunate In the nurse"
VERY fortunate. But it appeared that beyond
beyond running the commissariat department,
so TO speak she did next to nothing for him.
Miss-the lady 1 spoke Odd everything.
Made herself perfect slave 10 MIN.
Bought his clothes"'
"Oh," groaned the wretched man, Il suppose
So What did know about baby's clothes!
And she wouldn't answer my Questons-said
he was all right and didn't want for anything, az
1 could see with my own eyes. tried making
presents, used to send game and things. round
out her birthday and gave her jeweI, look
every chance / could get to work OF the 0Dllga'
tion but 1t was no use She gave me pir'h-
day present after I'd given her one.
We'll. II moths will so into spiders webs re-
marked his companion. they must take inc
consequences"
Sometimes they get helped out" he replied.
Some beneGcent godlike being puts out an
omnipotent finger
He looked at her and she looked at him. At
this moment they seemed to have known one
another intimately for years. The moon again.
Tell me everything" she said, and III help
you out"
So then ne told her that he had been giving up
the habit Of frequently visiting his son. Cow
ardly and weak he knew but the thing was too
confoundedly awkward. too embarrassing alto
gether
But she writes She writes full report every
week tells me what he weighs and when he's
got a fresh tooth and how he crswls about tho
carpet and into her bed Of morning. and imi-
tates the cat mewing, and drinks don't know
how many pints OF new milk a day. and all that
sort OF thing I believe the rascal has the appe-
title OF a young tiger. and yet can't pay for
what he eats The nurse was long ago dispensed
with. so that I've not even her board TO send
check for, that they might by chance make .
trife OF profit out OF. 1t seems too late now to
simply take the child away. and there leave It;
| haven't the unspeakable shabbiness, the brazen
impudence the mean selfshness. to do such
thing: and besides. he might come to any sort OK
grief poor little chap. in that case. There's no
doubt in the world that her taking Of him and
doing for him have been the salvation OF his
health and perhaps his life And know. by
what she tells me- that he regularly dotes on
her-as so he ought-and would howl his very
head OF II we took him from her What could l
do with him II did take him? I've no home
and nobody to look after it II had and hired
servants are the deuce with lone man AT then
mercy II would be wors" now than 1t was al
first. And so"-with a heavy sigh-'you SEQ the
situation I'm just swallowed up body and
bones drowned fathoms deep. in sea Of debt
and obligation that | can never by an! p"ssf-
bility struggle out Of. except -
He paused and blushed.
"Except" continued Rose. with the candid ali
of kind and sensible sister, except by marry
ing her you mean Yes see the situation. !
appreciate your point OF view. ! should under
stand IL It were not that she unQuestionabIy
laid the trap for you deliberately just a. that
spider laid his for moths and Mos. And marriage
by capture has gone out
"Oh. don't say that the man protested IN
haste Il would not for a moment accuse her
OF that. She was Mab.rs friend-it was for her
1T was out Of pure womanly compassion for the
motherless chilli. at any rate, in the beginning.
And even now have no right whatever to
suppose
but you know il. All lhc same. Every word
yor have said To me tells me that you know 1t.
You may az we'll I've frank"
lie squirrned a little in his chair, but confessed
as required.
"Well-but It's "A caddish thing to say think
she does expect it. And hasn't she the right TO
expect it: However. that's neither here nor
there. The point u.s. that in common honor and
honesty in common manliness I should repay