The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-25

nc eS SHo hicaeu out her SOFT. lee less
| little boot:
Nancy Oiden. choose you. Nancy
olden. love you. Nancy Olden. /
dare you not TO love me. Nancy OIden.
| defy you not to laugh back at metz
Where in tho world she dropped
from. heaven knows. The organ grind
er picked up the shafts of his wagon
anu trundied IL away. The picka MIN
mes melted like magic. But that CAV
niue Hirt about a year and a half
old,'Just held on to my finger and gan.
Dled-poetry.
4 dldnt realize just then that she
was lost, strayed or stolen. Il or.
pected every moment some nurse or
concerted mamma to appear and drag
her away from me. And / looked down
at ner-oh. she was just little bunch
Vi Soft stun; her face was a giggling
almpie' framed in a big round hat.
naio, that had fallen from her chicken.
olond head; and her white dress. with
the blue ribbons at the shoulders. was
lust little bit dirty. like 'em a little
OIL dirty. Why? Perhaps because
can imagine having little coouette
or my own bit dirty like that. and
can Just see Nance Olden with
spick-and-span clean baby. all featb.
efs and lace, like bored little grown
up.
foure a mouse" / gurgled down
at her. You're a sweetheart. Yor,re
a."
And suddenly heard a cry and rush
behind me.
II was a false alarm; Just a long.
legged girl of IL rushing round the
corner, followed by lot of others II
hadn't been meant for me. of course
out In the second when / had remem-
'ered that precious paper and Tausig's
tage when he should miss 1t. had
pulled my hand away from that biz
paDy's and started to run,
Ihe poor little tot There isn't any
reason In the world for the fancies
they take any more than for our own.
en-. Mag2 Why should she have been
attracted to me just because was so
undignified as to dance with the pick.
aninnes?
But do you know what that little
thing did, She thought was playing
Win her. She gave crow OF delight
ana came bowling after me.
That finished me. STONED and
picked her up in my arms, throwing
ner up In the air to hear her crow and
deei her come down again.
Mouse said, "well just have a
little trip together The nurse that'a
lose you deserves to worry till YOU'RE
round. The mother that's lucky
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Account Just now. Come on. " VI CIR
heayt.r
Oh, the feel Of baby In your arms,
Mag! 1t makes the Cruelty seem a
perfectly unreal thing, a thing one
should be unutterably ashamed of
of accusing human nature
of; thing only an irredeemably vile
thing could imagine Just the weight
OF that little body riding like bonny
boat at anchor on your arm, just the
cocbty little way ii sits up, chfrping and
copfident, just the light touch Of bit
OF hand on your collar; just that Is
enough to push down brick walls; to
destroy pictures or bruised and manned |
children that endure after the injuries
A.e healed: to scatter records that even
ii, Nancy Olden cant believe and |
believe, too that other women have
carried their babies, as | did some
other woman's baby, across the square.
On the other side set her down. | |
didn't want to. ! was greedy of every |
moment that / had her But wanted |
10 get some change ready before climb
ing up the steps to the l. station.
She elutehed my dress as we stood !
there minute id a perfectly irresist-
ible way | know now why men marry
haby-women; it's to feel that delicious.
helpless clutch Of weak fingers the
clutch of dependence, Of trust, of ap-
peal.
looked down at her with that same
silly alteration I've seen on Molly's
lace for her poor, lacking, twisted boy.
At least, / did In the beginning. But
gradually the expression Of my face
must have changed; for all at once l
what had been done to me.
My purse was gone.
Yes, Maggie Monahan, clean gonel
My pocket had beea as neatly picked
an myself-~well, never mind, as what
/ threw back my head and laughed
aloud Nance Olden, the great doerr
up, had been done up 80 cleverly, so
surely, SO prettily, that she hadn't had
an inkling of it.
wished could get glimpse OF the
clever girl that did 1t. A girl--of course,
1t was! DO you think any boys fingers
could do job like that and me not even
know?
ITO be Continued