The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-08

said Barney, with an angry start When the
awakening came.
IF dis ring keeps on Butterick place
viii have a Jim for a leader instead OF q
Barney"
First there was a coolness, followed by
a calm. In the rear OF the saloon Thea
| a few nights later fight 20 a hnisn ne
tween Barney and Jim. They had decd-
ed 10 settle il u that way. The mill
took pace in the basement Of tenement
| house. IL lasted for nine rounds, when
Earuey-bauered and succeeded
in getting in blow on Jims neck that
/ felled him. When he finally crawied 20
his feet defeated but defiant he walked
over 10 the corner where his antagonist
was receiving congratulations
you've licked me Barney Muller" he
said. 81 leave the Bend tomorrow, but
you'Il be sorry when I'm gone"
When Barney came home from his Work
on The docks the following evening he reai-
lied the awful meaning Of the veilei
threat Maggie wasn't there 10 meet him.
Instead was a sealed envelope addressed t.
him in crude, eramped hand. Inside was
a certificate signed by Alderman Bernstein.
il said chat The alderman had on chat day
married Margaret Muller TO James Stat
| terry. Accompanying the certificate was
note.
you was 50 busy quarreling with jim,
Is read, that you couldn't see that me and
him were in love. We've been engaged
three months. almost ever siace you miro
duced uE. You drove him away from the
Bend ! so with him as his wife. I'm
| sorry for you. Barney but it's your own
fault. Goodby. Maggie.
Barneys face was white ana wild when
he showed The marriage certificate 10 dc
gang" chat night in The rear Of Duffy's
saloon
Don't none o you ever speak her name
TO me again" he cried with a savage cath
Shes gone. She can't be Barney Mu.-
ier's sister ef she is Jim Slattery's wife.
He stalzcd out to the side door The bold
est Of the gang never dared 20 mention the
name OF Maggie after mat in tone above
"A whisper.
Only vague rumors of Magges new life
hoated back to Butterick place during
The year following. Jim had become a
! bookmaker's clerk. He Travelled from one
race track to another. He was said 10 be
making money. His wife, according 10
report was always with him. She vas
| said to be basking in the sunshine Of Jim's
| good luck and living on de sunny side OF
/ Easy street"
! one Sunday afternoon, late in the fan
Of the year. just after the Thanksgiving
snow had begun 10 swirl around the door
! steps and fll UP Che sag holes in the pave
| meni OF Ryan street the Salvation Army
| paraded through that thoroughfare
Ryan street was SO short and crooked
and insignificant that even the army had
! overlooked ii until now. For that reason
the SHOW possessed for the Inhabitants a
charm of novelty that IL would have mad IN
| very few other places.
| Red and the gang all turned out in force
| TO hear de drum"
DE drum" aud the noise We're by far
| the two most interesting entries on the
| programme, but even above their din
! there was waited TO Red a message that
"de captain" read out of much-Worn
Testament
But. l say unto you, forgive your enc
mics"
The idea Of foreiving anybody was very
/ strange 10 Red Mccain, but the idea of
! forgiving an enemy was positively hui
| morous.
Listen 20 de crank" he said 10 one
of his followers, who laughed heartily.
But the man said 1t over again several
| times. lie wound kind of a sermon
| around the words, and as Red walked
/ away that night to the Music HAN, where
| he was to take tickets for the sacred
| concert" something seemed to keep ring
! ing in hiss eaPs-sofnet thing that seemed 70
| be accentuated by drum and a tam5ou-
rine. But, ! say unto YOU forgive your
! enemies
Ii was holiday week, and one of the
coolest nights Of the year 1t had been
showing al day, and great drifts We're pill
] ed across IANdl street. a. O 1tOth III tue
morning Red was wading through them
up 10 his waist, on his way "home." Home
st that time consisted of a corner of a
/ saloon two blocks away, where Red made
/ the fire in the base-burner every morning,
and by way of remuneration was allowed
sleeping room.
IBIS is a fierce night" said Red to him
self, as he looked at the deserted streets
at must be pretty bad when everybody
! STAYS inside on RYAN street.
/ no living thing anywhere-nOthiug but
the black sky, the cutting swirhng snow
and tenement house walls.
As he passed a doorstep where the snow
had not drifted quite SO high as ON some
Of the other houses on the block he heard
some one call his name
Red say, Red McGannr'
Red doundered moment in the snow
At first he could see noaone, Then, as
the wind made the corner lamp post flare
| a little to one side. he caught sight OF
| young woman holding baby in hel
arms on the doorstep. The ragged shaw
| that she had thrown over her head was
well pulled down over her face. In tht
momentary flare Red saw her eyes, anc
he knew her. Only one girl who lived II
the Bend had ever possessed eyes as bis
and blue these. She was Maggie Mul
Ter, Berney's sister The exiled queen o.
The gang against which Red fell iifteer
years OF accumulated hate.
But something Ia the Wilderness OF hel
face and the child's. the utter, complete
hopelessness of it all, made Red stop ii
his walk, and founder over to The door
| step
He ooked down a the two figures eol
a while before he quite gJl his breath
whats De troub.e?" he said slowly. a.
ne glanced furtively AZ the tenement house
across the street.
"Everythng." said Maggie. When W,
were first married things went along al
right for avn e; plenty 81 good clothe:
and good times. Then Jim plunged al
| Guttenburg. lie lost evcrythins he had
He was gone one dny whom | came home
but he left me a beautiful letter he did
stating that ne coulcn't support a wife ans
longer Perhaps he couldn't 1 don
think he would have given me up if he
could have helped H. His boss, the book
| maker. paid my fare ana the baby's e
New York. DO you understand, Red?"
Red nodded az course. he understood
His train ug in adversely made The TRACE.
dy IN an It's details flash before his MIND