The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-12

you for stealing sack Of potatoes, a bag Of con
and sicc Of pickle pork from ps,sr fasbn ng
pounds mebbc. Peter Fagin lives three miles
| from here. TherC was an awful heavy ram nl
that night and the mud was snee,uIgp re oH, sn
SThrre was a snee- in the woman $ voice that con
trnsted painfully with her shtunkcn. wiii IN S
| face and figure The man laid his lace IN ule
hollow Of his skcleton.lik hands and groaned'
Thc woman TUNED toward Tatman di M me- t
"TatmSn $ face was flushed and his whole fig.
/ nre seemed To cry out an apology Tor our oe'us
81 believe shall have TO- he said. The law
aThe woman st,aightcned up siih "a rod.
We'll she said, won't put you TO much 'r1u,
bic. II amt worth while for you 70 go pokin,
around into unnecessary comes here's wha!
there IL left of the last haul The potatoes is =
She stepped 10 the cupboard In the corner ana fe"
"'Mer,hai tho man called out, sharply.
That's all right. III, she said. i knew I'D
have TO como sooner or later an It's no use To heat
There's the potatoes she repeated. down there
In that box The meal Is In that jar on the second
s9s T9s meat Is %f'ps% up IN sS
good many mouths 60 feed here, countin IN the
dogs, It's a good thing you come when You dd
for IKE as not 'hcred nave been another maui To-
night or tho night after
",Ihc woman sat down on stool opposite her
brother and motinnrd Tn'man and me to ch ,,l,
man remained standing
I'm very sorry o md things as they are he
should find him guilty. lie Is evidently very
sick man. do not sec how can take him into
custody today. yet II he i guilty, as You say
THE woman sprang TO her feet like wounded
Who said he was guilty . She broke in. !
said got the stuff from Peter Fagin's hut
didn't say M took IT, lie didn Why man,
whcre nrc your eyes and your common sense?
Can't you see Can't you understand Don't
al
helf that toad n hundred yards let alone three
miles No, " YOU are goin' 70 arrest nnyhGdy.
you'Il hay" TO arrest me-. did the stealth. I've
-'rhcrr was catch in her voice then. The
woman sank back on III" stool again and gathered
the youngest child into her arms and hcran 10
rock her body tuHnd fro ncryously. TatmGn took
thcyncant chair beside me and mopped his stream
"'You wouldnt think Id he atlc 10 do T.. either.
would YOU she resumed pitching her voice IN lis
highkcycd monotone once more I'm q wears
old, but I've stiII got heaps 81 strength I've al
ways been s!,ong MS an3H I've had need TO re-
too ioI I've had 10 work Ike one most OF my ne.
rye had all my brothers t9do for Their Vas ISIS. SIX
of them Somehow. their wives oil died whcn
oil up The best kngwcd how. ms Is the las, III
have to do Tor liked MS wife better than any
dren hest II shed hccn my own sister couldn
hnv" thought more o. her. and u The children was
my own couldn't think more OF them Az ieas'
stols for ,nybody but 'hcm promised 'h b.
breath that they shouIdnt want Tor anything II |
could h"lpiL an lgu"ss they never have. SO far
III ncve, did have thc knsGk Of Es,'i ,,,,o on
that set me eoin this one here in my arms
lie was hungry for two days an nights, lie
cried an cried 81 couldn't s'nnd i @ , iG Ts
Fagin the flrst night Nou'll say. o. course. !
onfh. u. have asked for help, We'll, mcbhc !
had. but don't know hs II would haye done any
good Folks was oll down on us Somehow.
they don't seem TO understand that HIS sick.
and has been nilin' for months They still MINK
il Amt that now II III begged, the best they
could have done would he TO send us to the poor.
house, and there Is 50 much red tape 70 hc IN.
wound before a holy can get in even there, that
the chances are we'd have starved to death before
the business could he settled That's the way
IL was with the Dolhn family
"Tatman remembered the Dolan episode and
nodded an nCquirscCnce
-'Nou may think it's strange that n woman a.
old a. | am could get around a. lively as I've
understand it myself hut somehow when was
stn ~ q mouse | never felt afraid. either I
guess that's the reason never got caught hut
now that you've got nc supros, IN have 10
now Iwnnt take me- long tovetready Clothes
don't cut much Of n figure with us All ! wish
iSthat you'd kind oflook after Ill and the children
-rhe man in the corner sobhcd aloud, Tat.
man arns" and stalkei over io the small window
and stood looking at the snow dimmcf glass
rc c H'- on, and grabbed old Martha's hand
ard when he spoke saw that his hand and voice
were both unsteady
- think he said. that you can take better
car" 81 these children thnn can don't went
YOU today My warrant is mr'c ont for Hiram
Leach I can't chan~" II 70 Martha II Is my
duty to do So ! supno." butt cNn't 40 my dY,,v
IIcrc Is something to keen won going for while
DON'T srcnl ar" ~ IL I'LL Peter Fagin's rrrt
m meal rnd potNtn"s ere MI gone. You might
get m" into trouble If YOU did
'"rhc woman leaned her gray head against
the Chili's unkrrnt locks She said nothing.
but she pressed Tntmnn's fingers, and guess
he understood"
The man 81 experience STONED ahruntly. Tho
voting Wan who was SMOKING c'rHrrl his throat
We'll" he asked nj lrugth. what became ~
Tntmrn' What did they do 10 him in the next
csrnaigu7-
knocked him higher than = kite" said the
man ~ rVrcri"nc~ -Thrv said he was no good
because he couldn't Hni that robhcr. But guess
Tatman didn't care