The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-22

clumsy bulk seemed so much greater to her intrepid
soul than any personal danger from the mild-man-
nered burglar that she dismissed the suggestion as
soon it appeared. When she entered her sitting
again and saw how starved and tired her burg
lar looked she glad of her decision.
Z He was leaning back his chair. his pistol still
in limp hand; his head laid back showing his
niseraby thin neck. and the white glare full the
haggard pallor OF his
His eye frightened at the sight of the tray Miss
MerryWeather, making comment lighted the lamp
under the silver chatting dish and burned she but
tered the slices of bread and placed beef between
4 am afraid the beef is little UNDERGONE for
your taste observed she, kindly and / hope you
don't care for mustard for forgot Il; but I've put
pieces I could md The SOM v.itr he warm in q
minute. Now you drink this glass of wine
Then man drank it. keeping his eyes on her. Then
ne laid the pistol on the table Il amt going TO
Much better not" returned Miss Merryweather
"The truth is I have long had curiosity to see a
but didn't expect he would be decent you seem
How do you like that wine? It's old JACQUES port"
The burglar looked rather bewildered but answered
that it was the best wine he lad tasted. He
added ingenuously that he had not tasted much
You are not at all like professional burglar"
remarked the lady, who had come to ladling
out the steaming soup; Il think You must be
Il never touched thing t wasn't my own before
well you haven't touched anything yet now"
Interrupted Miss Merryweather who had a mania
for accuracy. She continued; Il suppose you are
putting that sandwich into your pocket for FAM
ily-dOn't do it! I'll make you up basket for
them. Tell me what brought you, such decent man,
to this pass?"
The man smeared his eyes with his hand before
he began. Il never seen lady like you said he.
Pm just going tell you the honest truth I was
working in Chicago, belonged to the junior plumb
ers."
oh. if you were plumber it must have come
natural to you to rob-"
The burglar acknowledged the sally by faint
smile. We amt so bad as they make us out. Well.
hard times came and work fell Off and the union
wouldn't let work below wages. so 1 left the
fact is, 1 couldn't keep up my dues.
DO you mean to tell me-. cried Miss Merry
her from he- hair
man. To1,t Won tbinL az -teIIzii5 me ~ can [iya
you great deal better job. and I win advance you
pIumbed: if You win take hold and eel this pTI7b-
ing done by o'clock tomorrow I'll pay you well.
And YOU shall have two men to help you who aren't
plumbers but have some sense, and a boy to run
to the shop to get the tools Are you good
'.Yesm was: I'm little out of practice But
guess 1 can satisfy you I'll try hard. You see they
didn't take all the men back. ma'am when the strike
ended. heard Of job in Chicago and I got it
to the new factory they starting here the
glucose works. and got job, but the first week I
fever me; and I did take whisky to kinder hold
me up for was wild to think of losing my job; but
7 wasn't drunk, though somebody said so So lost
it and another fellow got itweIL guess he needed
it bad, too. But that's how it was
81 went home and sick awful bad for six
weeks and when I got up again there was nothing
] could get and the baby come just then. God for
give it, and I guess ne knowed he none too well
come, for he's been hOnerin' ever since. Doctor
says he needs kinder food, nesting food,
sich name. and L wanted to git it, for
way don't jest want him to die, if he is mean! Then
I wanted to git my woman things she's a awful
nice woman, I'll say that and about all we've got
she's earned by washing I've been out week. walk
ing about hundred miles, guess, begging for job
everywhere / heard jobs were to be had; but you
see we We're strangers and there amt enough work
to round 'mong the old
To-day. went back from the shoe factory
the river, all the turkeys the
ders. and remembered how there wasn't a bite in
house for today for tomorrow, and looked
rich folks that don't love their families mite
bettern love mine, I got kinder wild. L guess.
never had grudged rich folk their money before. I
willing work hard and not to have very much;
but il seems If there wasn't inch of
for and my family this earth. Wed pawned
every last thing could pawn, and there we was
a-starvingi"