The daily Alaskan., 1905-06-21
Nfaasy Darr's
 Temptation
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ntncf place, nuN Sitt NAS rNthN" "Nt- an and turned her servant away with the few dollars she owed her Co shift for herself,
 Maggy's mother was a widow with one cli.d besides Maggy, a boy two years old. It so happencd that at the time of the girls discharge her moth. or fen sick, and tho money Maggy brought home from her mistress was all the means the family possessed Co pay rent and the doctor and buy food and medicines. The consequence was that it was moro than exhausted with In a few days,
 One night MaCgy left her sick moth CT and her little brother, who was cry ing for food, and went out with des' peration n her heart She was walk ing along the street crying when she was stopped by a rough looking man with the question;
 Hello. little girll Whats the mat teryr
 Maggy gave an account Of her con ditioa and the reasons for t
 Young woman" said the man, 'ff you don't take care O yourself no one won't take care O you I'm an escaped janhird myself. Nobody won't give me no work, and I've got to take what | need. whether the law allows or not, Say, I've been watchln' house around the corner. There's window open, just enough for a girl Ike you to crawl through. Besides you'd step lighter n me. You go in and get some swac. while | watch for cops outside
 But one vision danced before Mag. gy's eyes-carrying home food to stop the crying Of her little brother. Her brain was not very capscious, and there was no room In it for more than one thought at time, The immortality of the means by which she intended to procure the coveted result was crowd ed out She went with the man, who showed her the window and, handing her a revolver and a dark lantern. told her to use the former If it would save her from being caught Maggy was so beside herself with her proposed work that she took both mechanically, not knowing what she did. Entering the house and not finding anythiug Of value in the lower rooms, she weat up stairs. The door of a bedroom stood aIar, and she threw the light Into the room. On bed lay a girl about her own age, sleeping She was pSsrfect picture of tranquility, her face So eN- presslon Of absolute innocence. Mag gv's light flashed on a dressing table, lighting up jewels that had been laid aside for the night Then she tGrncd the rays again on her from whom she was to take these jewels.
 Maggy was no more of burglar than the sleeper. She was not even naturally dishonest. A coincidence - her meeting with the convict, his point. ing out a way by which to gain rulief- had been too much for her young pow CTS of resistance. This deteusclcsS m- nccence cast as sudden light Into Maggy's moral nature as her lSrtcrn cast upon the sleeper,
 Now. beside the bed In which the girl lay was an electric light baton. The sleeper, when Msggy had flashed the light in her face, partly awaSeued and listened, but, hearing nothing was about to sink to sleep again wheu she heard a low sob. Reaching up she turned the button, and the room vas illuminated
 Perhaps no one ever saw a mon nov el sight A girl about her own age was on her knees in the middle of the door with her hands clasped and her eyes raised in prayer. On one side of her on the floor was lantern, on the other A revolver. There was little tisoe to gaze on the picture, for In a moment door without opened and a No'ce said;
 There's somebody In the house.
 The awakened girl must have had a brain capable of taking In a great deal on sudden notice. At any rate, shc saw A vision of her visitor marched t0 jail, and at the same time she devised means to prevent such result
 Bring those things and put then un- der the bed. Quick-' she said.
 Maggy, called to berself by her dan ger, obeyed.
 "Now get Into bed with me"
 Maggy had no sooner disappeared un- der the covers than her bedfellow turn ed the button, and the room was dark again. A man came to the door with Q candle in one hand and pistol in the other, asked the girl if she had seen or heard anything, went away, prowled for awhile about the house, then went back to bed.
 In the darkness, covered by the same bedclothes as her protector, Maggy told her story. Just before day bosh girls arose and stole softly downstairs. and Maggy, after peeping through crack to make sure that her tempter had gone away, walked out of the front dooy.
 The next day the girl Msggy had in- tended to rob came to visit the parr family. She carried many bun Hes. which gladdened the hearts of all es- pecially those things that Maggy bad told her the Invalid needed. From that time forward she took them all under bar eSoecial care. and when she entered