El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-28

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until he drove them from h elevate
and told them to keep out for a week,
played hunter" with every pet cat
in the building and finished by throw
ing their caps down the open space in
b center of the curved stairway, slid
ing madly down the polished iron rail
in order to recover them and tramping
nOisily up again. They were making
great fun this way when Hrs. Row
land, passing along the corridor on her
way to call on Mrs. Browning, who
lived on the C floor, appeared.
: "Oh, boys, boys" she cried, laughing
~ stopping her ears as they raced to-
ward her, you must, you positively
must, be a little quieter! Go into our
rooms, dearies, N don't come
out again until l return"
Ten minutes later she was nearly
frightened out of her wits. Looking out
Of Mrs. B~rowning's window into the
light shaft. which furnished light and
air to all the apartments in the build
ing, she saw her son Teddy suspended
I'm a sort of improvised sling, evidently
patterned after h harness used by
the janitor when cleaning windows,
and helped out by suggestions obtain
ed from Il travelling croba whom the
boys had recently seen. A large bow
knot had been tied in the rope used for
hanging out clothes on the roof on
washing days, and in the lower loop
of this bow Teddy rested as if in q
seatless swing. The smaller loop, pass
ing around his waist, assisted him in
retaining an unsteady sitting posture.
At a small pantry window high above,
alternately raising and lowering his
brother by means of an improvised
wfndlass strangely resembling a mutt
lated clothes wringer, stood Oliver,
grinning with delight.
Teddy, to his indignant disgust, was
unceremoniOusly hauled through Mrs.
Browning's window. and his mother,
accompanied by her hostess Mrs.
Stacy, who lived upon the seventh
floor of the building on the opposite
side ne who had called to return a
book loaned her by Mrs. Browning,
hurried up stairs to loo at the in
genious contrivance.
"Please, mamma, let it stay" plead
ed Teddy b~eseechingly, lust for a
little while anyway! 1t might come in
handy, you know"
"Oh yes, it might" admitted Mrs.
Rowland, laughing, but 1 don't think
it will. So remove it at once" At
that N Mrs. Stacy, who had been
amusedly inspecting the rope and
wringer, gave a startled cry.
Six floors below them, swaying about
on h window sill of the Stacy apart
ment, sat the year-old baby thai Mrs.
Stacy had left asleep in it's cradle. 1t
was peering down into the court. A
chair drawn up close to the window
showed the means by which the lit
tie one had reached it's dangerous
perch. The fiOor of the light shaft
was paved with stone, the window
was ~unguarded by bars or railing, and
the poor mother groaned aloud as she
realized that her child might at any
moment fall n be dashed to death.
"What shall l do? What shall 1 d ?"
she moaned wildly, wringing her
hands. Il let the nurse go upon an err
rand half an hour ago. The girl has
her afternoon off today, and we lock-
ed myself out of the fiat. 1 forgot all
about there being nobody to let me in,
and my Iatchkey is in my pocketbook
down on the dresser in my BEDROOM"
"And the janitor has gone u too.
I saw him, and he said he was going
down town. put in Oliver e~xcitedly.
"And the engineer hasn't any keys.