Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-06-28
SHORT STORY FOR
EVENING HOURS
A WnlM Of FATE

and successful, self made man, was
finding himself exceedingly bored, and
blamed the fates accordingly.
What had be done that he should
have TO sit still in the Brighton Pull
man while very young lawyer poured
fatuous platitudes into his unwilling
ear?
81 don't know that I'll show myself
any too prominently about court to.
day" the inanc chatterer went glibly
on. II had an intimation that might
ho appointed TO defend that fellow
Yancey. and don't want anything to
do with the case. 1t does man no
good TO get mixed with these murder
cases when popular sentiments down
on the criminal. You get the worst of
il, whether you clear him or not--and,
OF course. II would be impossible to
clear EanCey."
"Yes?" returned F'loman, dryly,
looking out of the window.
"Oh, of course. You see, he's got no
friends at all. The strikers are down
on him because he refused 10 go ont
with them, and yet he goes and
makes an assault on Stein, the propri.
etor OF the business, right at Yancey's
own door. too, when Stein was prob.
ably calling there 20 do something for
his family, and stein falls and strikes
his head and dies, so everybody else Is
against him. 4 man gets no honor by
defending a case like that. All the fel
lows are fighting shy of II. Personal
~, I'm going to keep out OF II If can
for u mans reputation is"
Pardon me, get out here" said
Richard Flomsn abruptly, and swung
himself down as the car stopped at
GrosycDor road, wondering vaguely
what he had done TO he visited by such
unutterablo plaques.
He was three miles short of his of.
icr but why should he hurry to reach
the Office where more bores awaited
him, doubtless, TO talk him into deep
or frenzy? Let his partner attend to
| them for a little wu..a. He strolled
! into the park across the river and took
off his hat under the trees. lie had
the park almost 10 himself. The chill
dren were at school. or going there;
inc nursemaids had not come out yet
In all these shady spaces, just him
self and two little children. They were
boy and a girl seated on a bench
The girls feet hung down and did not
touch the ground, and the boys feet
stood straight out before him be
| ,ause his legs We're too short to hang
down. The boy was CRYING dismally
| and Floman, who was IN 4 lounginp
mood. stopped and spoke TO him.
"Halloa! Young man" he said
what aro these tears for? Lost your
bah? Broken vour cart?"
lie spoke grully and awkwardly--
not with the sIlyery persuasIyeness
that melted all hearts in the court
room and ON the rostrum, He was NOT
used to speaking 10 children. There
was no how in his house. and no bal
or cart. He and n certain proud and
cold woman would have been better
and hammer to have had them there.
I The bow ceased sobbing, n little
Ifriphtened hut the girl explained with
n sober little smile:-
mo. sir: he's CRYING because tomor
rows the Yancey birthday and daddi,
can't come homeland so we WON'T gel
ANYTHING"
Floman found his attention caught
by this artless speech. Most of thu
speeches he heard were anything bu
arless. He sat down OIL an opposit,
bench and looked at the two, his hands
in his pockets.
What kind Of birthday was tina
YOU mcntioned?" he asked politely
Something new in blrthdays?"
The chld's face flushed. 1t was
pretty little face that had grown to-
delicate.
The Yancey birthday" she explain
ed carefully. you see, that IL OIL
name-we are Yanceys, and tomorrow
Is our birthday--mamma' and Boy
and mine. We are all three horn Of
F.. the same date, and that's what mad