The daily Alaskan., 1905-10-31
NTaggy Darr's
 Temptation
IOrlglnall

her that for the sake of economy she would dispense with her services. The lady should have helped her to get an' other place, but she was a selfish wom. an and turned her servant away with the few dollars she owed her to shift for herself.
 Maggy's mother was n widow with one child besides Maggy, a boy two years old. It so happened that ut tho time of the girls discharge her moth CT fell sick, and the money M0ggT brought home from her mistress was all the means the family possessed to pay rent and the doctor and buy food and medicines. The consequence was that 1t was more than exhausted with in a few days.
 One night Maggy left her sick moth CT and her little brother, who was cry ing for food, and went out with des' beratIon in her heart. She was walk ing along the street crying when shA was stopped by a rough looking man with the question;
 Hello, little girl! Whats the mat terT'
 Maggy. gave GE account of her con ditlon and the reasons for 1t.
 "Young woman" said the man, 'h you don't take care Q yourself no one won't take care O you. Pm an escaped Iallblrd 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 watchin house around the corner. There's a window open lust enough for a girl like you to crawl through. Besides, you'd steT lighter n me. You go lu and get some swag. while l watch for cops outside.
 But one vision danced before Mag gy's eyes-carrylug home food 10 stop the crylng of her little brother, Her brain was not very caU0rious. and there was no room in it for more than one thought at a time. The immortality of the means by which she intended tr 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 f. 1t woult save her from being caught. Maggy was so beside herself with her proposed work thOt she took both mechanically no' knowing what she did. Entering jhc house and not finding anything oi value In the lower rooms, she weat uD stairs. The door of a bclroo" Eto1. Rjar, and she threw the light in.2 tA' room. On a bed lay a girl about hei own age, sleeping. She WAS l--"tt'. picture of tranquility, her ta.e n c> presslon of absolute innocence. N1- gy's light flashed cu a dressing table lighting up jewels that had been Ialo aside for the night Then she tGrneo the rays again on her from whom she was to take these jewels.
 Maggy was no more of a b'r'GIoT than the sleeper. She was not eVep naturally dishonest X co,nciLnnce- her meeting with the convict his point. Ing out a way by which to gain rcllef- had been too much for her young pow CTS of resistance. This defeuseleSS in, nocence cast as sudden a light into Maggy's moral nature as her 3Lt'rn cast upon the sleeper.
 Now, beside the bed iu whica the girl lay was m electric light button The sleeper, when Muggy had flashed the light ln her face, partly awakened and listened, but, hearing nothing was about to sink to sleep again when she heard a low sob. Reaching un she turned the button, and the room vas Illuminated.
 Perhaps no one ever saw more nov el sight. A girl about her own age vas 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 tiloe to gaze on the picture, for In a moment a door without opened and a voice said:
 "There's somebody In the house." Q
 The awakened girl must have had
 
 brain capable of taking in a great dea. on sudden notice. At any rate, shG sax a vision of her visitor marched to jail and at the same time she devised means to prevent such a result
 Bring those things and put then un' der the bed. Quick" she said.
 Maggy, called to herself by her dap ger, obeyed.
 NOW get into bed with ne"
 Maggy had no sooner disappeared un der the covers than her bedfeIlow turn ed the button. and the room was dark again. A man came to the door with a candle In one hand and a pistol m the other, asked the girl If she had seen or heard anything, went away, Dr4wled for awhile about the house, then went back to bed.
 In the darkness, covered by the same bedclothes as her protector, Magsy told her story. Just before day bo;h 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 dooS.
 The next day the girl Maggy had in tended to rob came to visit the parr family. She carried many bundles, vrbIob vIodTann.l fhp hearts of all, eS-