The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-06
TWO
RESCUES.
By Evan Macpherson.

At last It seemed that the greater a
suppleness and length Of limb had TIL t
umphed; Norton was on top, the other q
mans arms securely held down in the
snow. But then arose the difficult t
question how to dispose Of this man !
safely and yet humanely. If positions !
had been reversed, Norton would have ;
been in perilous case; an evil light
was glarlng out OF the two eyes that
met his, reckless demon of hate
against the whole world. Norton, on
the contrary had no general grievance;
! in particular he had no quarrel against
! the stranger whom he held pinioned
in the snow. Only one person had
been in his thoughts as he came down
that lonely side street. and her he
would not have harmed for all that life
could afford. 1t had seemed, though, |
that death would be for him happy !
escape from the agony Of his meeting |
with her that afternoon, finding her
SO affectionately intimate with that
, supercilious middle-aged Professor
Whats-his-name, and his just resent
e ment met with what sounded to him
l like a heartless sheer, and all this after
= years of absence in constant love and
T. hope. BY all logic Norton ought to
4 have been glad to let the man in the
. peaiacket get up and kill him, but
somehow his impulses had all been
]. changed by this chance meeting with G
e fellow creature to whom life seemed as
o unbearaDle as to himself
# The solution Of The problem how to
u release the desperate man came to
Norton when the painting still was
ID feebly broken by the distant voice Of a
ut child calling. The man on the ground
in raised his head, as if from force OF
a habit, to listen The voice came
to nearer.
to Papa! papa Mamma wants you.
LET me up. That's my kid"
d. Norton jumped up delighted.
1d Papa! Mamma wants you to come
ad to her" .an..,....
ep "Here Connie"
de The man in the poajackct sat up Of
ed the snowy curb, trying to rid himsel
~ of the marks Of his rough-and-tumbl
Zee in the snow. Norton was picking Il
or? his tall hat when a little girl in pin
NV. frock emerged from the darkness Of til
mt street. The little girl appeared to TO
we get that it was cold night and tia
the her black wooden shawl thrown Oy'
let her head was a very slender protection
The shawl was trailing behind her
I've she ran to her papa, and, sobbin
{ threw herself into his arms.
hat ooh, papa, she didn't me4HBSSsss 23t
mamma didn't mean for yOB&9G"
af- away and never come back! WoI
lme YOU come to her now, please, papa"
, to Norton. brushing his silk hat, fl
once more moved to laughter-perha
the not the laughter Of merely humoro
now appreciation, but still laughter. Tau9
w9v by his late experience, he moderat
his laugh to a hardly audible chuck
hut ana then. as that excited no fresh o
/, 50 break on the part Of Comics papa,
that spoke up:
hter. Eyes. Connie"-hc had caught the
inter tie ones name-'papa's going hol
the But you mustn't catch cold, little g
Dqa- Heraw
the He was taking off his own oyerc
RIGHT to throw over the child when
father, still sitting in the snow huge
orion her to his peajacket, looked up
taller caught him in the act
skill az you take off that coat yC
.. but catch your death of noomony, mist
ward he said.
cloves Il shall rot have time for that, I
,noon ner. Why not? Because I'm goin
trna send you home with Connie while
ss diff the other way" He nodded in th
frri- rectioD of the river. Il have no Il
Of his where I'm wanted, and no little gi
ibs run about in tie SNOW looking
cd uD me-"
stems Connie looked up at him over
vnn in papa's shoulder. "Ain't you got
nook. body at all"
al tbe Nobody at all Connie. Here, Il
m ike see If the coats too long for YOU"
.ss for Her papa rose and gathered u
i. 1vpnt trailing black shawl. Run on
in+an+ baby" he said. wrapping it tight
ifh tho her run on now. just SIS fast a
or and can. and tell mamma I'm coming
II anu ~t'-''
man in aWay-sooh as / get H1ousH =
ling to to this gentleman on business
,orton's Norton TOOK soInelAlHs ouu
od n pocket. stopped, and transferre
vitb its something to Comics hand, wi
I'm tba ING to her. and she, after one p
4 every stare. disappeared up tho street
his on looked after her a moment and