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n, they both lpok~i half starved Tul-
l,-h ven, ~ tho bench and told the boy
anil sifl he would have to arrest them on
unancy charge
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q plaor 10 sleep and q bite 10 eat for the
both II you
He tcok them TO the city prison. and later
IN the morning they we're arraisnsti bsfore
Recorder stanton The girl stood before
Biz dcak with her arm around the boy and
her EYES we're stlll red from crying. The
Recorder was touched by her misery and
hsr evident affection for the hoy He
didn't use hIs court voioe when he spoke.
'rell pe all about IT, said he. swhst's
Che trouhle'-
The girl frightened up and looked the
Recorder straight in the eye, but the boy
wa scared and kept his head down. She
did The talking, keeping her arm around
bis waist.
Her name was Mabel Piaros, shs said.
snd she was Is years old. Her home had
been in Stanhopc, N. j.. where her father
and mother died and she lived with her
grandfather. Things were terribly dull
In Stanhope. There was little for q cir!
10 do who liked dancing and parties and
good fun Boys had n good time In Stan
hope, but girls had to stick to the house
and mend socks or they would be talked
about. The least little thing made the old
maids stare and raise their eyebrows
She got sick OF that, she said, and made
up her mind to 60 somewhere and earn her
own living to some town whore she would
be her own mistress and get a little fun out
Of life without lot Of old cate saying she
vent to Hackettstown and got a lob
ct the mill easily enough. 1t certainly was |
. relist after poky, righteous Stanhope,
Then she met Frank Redding, who work ed
In the mill. Redding was 10 years old. q
Sooa e.. A. iooslns q intellies1t young fellow.
Railroad ii Hudkettstown. Ho was kind
% her md took her places, and she fell In
hove with him, almost as much as he did
With her. Redding thought they ought
to get married and that II they went to
H ~ sSsS1 iSsS could sA,s ss shsss s.G :ss biz %d s
trouble and get good paying jobs, too.
She was willing It was close to New York,
and she had never seen New York, though
sle nad wanted to every since doll baby
d;gysi gss,,,.
they tried to take a train they would get
caught sure, for father would be at the
station. So they slipped out OF Hacketts-
IoWn nvs days ago and took the road to
poser eighteen miles away. Redding
had 70 and Mabel had $2l0. 1t wasn't much
nm rtA<lIt tf, 49, |
/ would do, because everything looked
bright and rosy. They tramped the eigh-
teen miles to Dover. and when they got
tnere the girl was weary and her feet were
20 sore she cried from pain. But she perked
up and made herself neat as a pin by the
,'%s us.s 4, a tran. tram for Hoboken, got in; They
mey thought Redding's father might have
ahead.
They made mistake when they bought
nshess' W g getting them for Hoboken instead
~ ~. mest hoboken. They went around
Se ss streets streets asking people where they could
ma mM hey gave that up. They found q
mhs,er's house but he smiled and said
~. !hey were too young and he wouldn't
mLs @e responsibility. They tried two
.aniee .,, other ministers, but It was the same
ihen they got furnished room In Bloom y
~. tet street, room with two beds, and when
paI,as pG was paid for their money was gone.
hheuans hustled out looking for job, but
S.s sened that nobody in Hoboken needed
re,S reR' he was turned down right and left,
than ghnsn ne got sick and discouraged. All
az nsa 10 eat for four days was bread
a1r eolee and the girl was weak and i'll. ,
th.ra messuay evening their landlady asked I
seh ". u iof more money, and when abe didn't
eW ~, she told them they had better clear
n ,.. =. ~ mere wasn't any place to clear out
EhS, he parks, and there they went. {
c,o.d u'e the girl was telling her story the
sovrS N the court room never made a
Sorno. ma. when she got through several T
snd usn "Hinere mere were using their handkerchiefs
~. a soinlng poor child" Reddine patted '
bu, sIi on the shoulder once IN q while,
sSd,s.aid 5 y aidnt say anything until the Recorder
van mddl1s' sss y saidAhe Judge, what would !
iror' 'Gy ~ II somebody took your sister away
and ~n home nome and exposed her to hardship
GrI,. .'"''ery the way you have done this \
,bs tk think i would be her own fault, said q
inorp ppy. g., She would be old enough to
.whs. .wrhne answer made the Recorder frovn,
q. .I you need, young man." said he, a
'Ob spanking from your father d
Judge be sIsd u the girl. crying again. 'oh, n
/ .bsn tnhink. said Recorder Stanton, .that n
Nabel Se1d word to your grandfather, a