Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-06

ram, then | was. | have been working
-.-onest work. and hint of the old
glow that he SO well remembered, col
ored her pale face for a moment.
Washing and sewing for the men at
the camps; when | heard he was sick
| felt | must see him. / have walked
forty miles since yesterday. | have
been guilty, but l am his mother.
didn't know how much loved the
child till had done that which made
me an outcast. Speak to me, Hiram,
don't look at me like that. Tell me
can see my boy" She knelt at his feet,
sobbing. II mustn't talk of love to you,
but God knows If I had life to live
again ] would be different to you; let
me see my boy just once; I will not
talk to him If you don't wish me to,
only let me kiss him, Hiram, and will
go away again and never trouble you
any more; say you will" Yes" he
said, you can see him. he is in my
bedroom" God bless YOU" she
cried starting to her feet "He is
asleep" said her husband. 20, then
might awake him." she said. hesitat-
ingly. mo, you can go in and he
sat down again by the fireside. Il will
be very STILL" she said, creeping to the
bedroom door She grasped the han
die and turned it gently: she held her
breath as the door slowly, noiseessiy
swung back on its hinges, then she
stepped into the dim chamber with
the easy tread of cat, although her
feet were bruised and blistered from
her long tramp over the rough, stony
mountain roads, and she was weak
from long fasting. Clancy sat gazing
into the dying embers of the fire; but
a few Goals were left, and the room was
the silence was oppressive. Suddenly
there was the sound of hurried foot
steps in the chamber, and he saw by the
broad stream of light that crossed the
floor of the dining-room from the
chamber door that the light had been
turned up. He heard his wife step
again to the bedside. Then a few mo-
ments of silence ensued and the wo-
man came slowly out-her figure con-
vulsed with sobs, and such look Of
agonized horror on her haggard face
as would have reused pity in heart Of
ice. Her husband rose slowly and
stood before her. "Well?' he que3-
toned. With burst of hysterical
sobs she cried: 20, Hiram-my boy
my baby-he is dead" Eyes, he died
shortly after midnight thought You
might like to look at your work-for
you killed him-he called for you night
and day-in waking and in his dreams
for you, his mother-and you come
now-back from the man who murder
ed your father-for whom you de-
child to pine and grieve himself into
his grave-and now you stand there
and cry out that your boy is dead
your boy? Have you forgotten p.s?'
and he held crumpled slip of l 'per
before her eyes-how well she remem-
bered 1t: "Good-by; I'm off with Tito.
You can have the brat; don't want
him" do you think that, after that"
he said In the same cold, calm tone,
that If you had come to that door,
and he had been alive and well that
would have consented to let you in? To
have allowed you to faint his moral at
mosphere with your presence? To
press his pure lips to yours--a har-
lot's?" For Gods sake.-mercy."
The sentence ended in sobs. You
might HAYES knelt there until the door
sill crumbled from beneath you with
age, and | should have said mo- till
the last. She raised her hands as II
to protest-opened her lips to speak,
but could not-and then, overcome
with fatigue, fasting and misery, she
tottered towards the bathroom and
fell prone across the theshold In a
swoon. He stood, gazing down on the
| thin form that showed too plainly the
effects of privation and hardship, but
not of sin, for the black garb was worn
| nearly threadbare and was without any
of the cheap and vulgar adornments of
| the common wonderland he said
aloud: "She was the child's mother,
after all" Then he raised her gently
in his strong arms and bore her to
sofa and chafed her hands and temples
till she revived. She sat up at last and
said: Hiram, will you let me kiss the
little one before l go?" For answer
he lifted her tenderly and supported
her fragile form to the bathroom
and once there, all the pent-up feelings
of the man burst forth in long shud-
dering sob, and soon wife and husband
were kneeling beside the little corpse