The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-25

to go to bed, he won't let anyone harm
her. They are soon in dreamland with
their arms around each other.
The next morning she is gone.
Where? Where? OH if he only knew.
Long years have passed since then
and
The child, thinking She has offended
him, has started to go. But he calls
her back and slipping a five dollar bill
in her cold little hand, tells her to hur-
~ home, after he asks her address.
There is no rest for him tonight. He
gets up and walks the floor, but at
every step and in every corner beau
tiful brown curly head appears before
him. At last worn out he throws him
self down on the bed and sleeps. But
only for a moment, that beautiful face
haunts his dreams. He dresses himself
and impatiently awaits for daylight.
As soon as it is light enough to see,
he goes out and, calling a passing
hackman, hands him an address,
which he reads and looks up in surprise
to think that such a wealthy man
would want to go to such a place. The
wealthy man notes his surprise, but
tells him to hurry and drive there.
Now let us take a look at the little
girl where we left her.
enters the room with such a sad look
that it startles her sick mama to see
a froWn on her babys beautiful face.
She asks in surprise what happened, as
she has disposed of her matches she
has certainly made few cents at least,
unless some one has taken them from
! her. Between sobs she tells her mama
/ that a man took her matches, but only
! gave her piece of paper in return.
Her mama asks her for the paper, but
alas it is gone. From the child's de-
scription the mother thinks it must
/ have been paper money, but it is too
dark to try and find it now. She con-
soles her little daughter by telling her
/ to say her prayers and go to sleep. God
would not forsake them.
I Long after her baby SlumberS the
/ poor mother is cutting wood for match
es, until at last the candle burns out
and she is compelled to lie down. But
not until she has prayed for the baby,
forgetting herself.
The child is up at daylight and is
soon busily tying the matches into lit
tie packages, and many the person
stops to listen as he hears her little
song floating out over the morning air
like voice from heaven. She is quite
a distance from the earth as their room
is on the seventh floor of a tenement
house
The mother smiles in her sleep as
she dreams that she hears the angels
singing. She starts suddenly, sits up in
the bed and looks around as one in
dream, but suddenly she recalls where
She is and is soon busily cleaning up
their little room.
The little child stops singing and
listens, thinking that she hears foot
CT hut oil &c. Gil -I,, -, ,.4s-
again After few minutes there is a
knock at the door. AS her mother opens
it, handsome but sad-looking man
enters The child recognizes him as the
man who bought her matches and
starts forward with cry of joy at see
ing him again, and in her humble home.
The mother is surprised and glances
at him several times before she speaks.
He resembles someone so much that
she had seen a long time ago. Who
can it be? She has a faint remem-
brance of her father Can it be him?
oh, no, she forgets. for moment, that
he must be an old man now. He takes
the child on his knee and. with tears
in his eyes, tells her that he once had
little sister. and how much like her
she looks. The child resembles her
mama so much and the more he looks
at her the more puzzled and troubled
he is. AT last he asks her if she re-
members when she was a child.
She says that she remembers very
little of her life except trouble and
misery, although she has a slight rec
objection of being in mansion which
was surrounded by beautiful gardens
and lawns, on which We're many spark
ling fountains. There were a great
many people there. also lots of music,
singing and dancing. A little brother
was with her always. The last time
that she remembers him he was telling
her a story. After that she was with
big. cross-l looking men all the time, who
were taking her from one hiding place
to another, until, at last, one night
they did not lie down, but sat around
the fire talking and smoking. Soon
after midnight she fell asleep. On wax
ms the next morning she found her
self i'm a tenement surrounded by dirty
children and grown-up people. She
could not remember a happy day since
she left her little brother. She did not
know whether she had dreamed this or
whether it was real, but she had often
amused her little daughter by telling
her about it.
The man asked her if she remem- |
bered her brothers name. She said /
that some one used to call him Ewing, |
but she called him ''buzzer." She thinks !
that his last name was Cherburry, as
she heard the robbers conversing to- |
gether once about a Mr.. Cherburry, and !
how much he was worth. He seemed
to be the topic of conversation at all
times. one of the robbers saw her
listening to their conversation and told |
her that if she ever mentioned her |
name TO any one they would Kill her. !
He the wealthy man, went TO her,
and. throwing his arms around her |
said that it was not a dream 1t was
all too true. but that she must not cry !
for she was his little sister, and he
would never let any one harm her /
again. for he would take her to his (
beautiful home where the baby could (
sleep in the same little room that her
mama slept in the night before she was !
stolen The mother had on a locket ;
which she had never taken of since
she was a home. Her mothers PIE
ture was in it. and whether the rob- 4
bers' hard hearts had been touched at
the sight of that sweet face, and never
took it from the child, we do not know.
1t had been carefully concealed from
every one else.
You may be sure the baby never
knew another moment of sorrow if her
uncle could prevent it.
MANY the happy hour she spent run
ming through the gardens and playing
where her mama had played when she
was little girl.
The baby's name was Dorothy, which
suited her so well as IL means q gift