Cañon City record., 1905-05-11
Macy Darr's
Temptation

Aaggy Darr was a nursegirI in
large city. One day her mistress told
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 n selfish wom-
an and turned her servant away with
the few dollars she owed her to shift
for herself.
Maggy's mother was widow with
one child besides Maggy. a boy two
years old 1t SO happened that al the
time of the girls discharge her moth
Or Cell sick, and the money Maggy
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 few days.
One night Maggy left her sick moth
or and her little brother. who was cry
ing for food. and went out with des
peration In her heart. She was walk
ing along the street crying when she
was stopped by a rough looking man
with the question:
terri
Maggy gave an account OF her con
dition and the reasons for 1t.
young woman" said the man. "if
you don't take care o. yourself no one
won't take care o. you. I'm an escaped
1ailbird myself. Nobody won't give me
NO work, and I've got to take what 1
need, whether the law allows or not
Say I've been watchin' house around
the corner. There's a window open,
Just enough for q girl like you to
crawl through. Besides. you'd step
lighter p me. You go in and get some
swas, while I 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 capacious, and
there was no room in II 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 dark lantern, told
her to use the former II 1t 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 anything Of
value in the lower rooms, she went up
stairs. The door Of bedroom stood
ajar, and she threw the light into the
room. On bed lay a girl about her
own age. sleeping. She was a perfect
picture of tranquility. her face an ex-
preston OF absolute innocence. Mag
gy's light flashed on a dressing table,
lighting up Jewels that had been laid
aside for the night Then she turned
the rays again on her from whom she
was to take these Jewels.
Maggy was no more Of a burglar
than the sleeper. She was not even
naturally dishonest. A coincidence
her meeting with the convict, his point
ing out way by which to gain relief
had been too much for her young pow
ers of resistance. This defenseless in
nocence cast as sudden a light into
kaggy's moral nature A. her lantern
east upon the sleeper.
Now, beside the bed in which the
g1ri lay was an electric light button.
The sleeper. when Maggy had flashed
ths light In her face. partly awakened
and listened, but, hearing nothing. was
about to sink to sleep again when shs
hard 4 low sob. Reaching up. she
tnxnsd the button, and the room was
01uminated.
Perhaps no one ever saw Q more ~
q sighs- A girl about her own ags was
- her knees In the middle Of the nosT.
VIII hee hands claspsd and hsr syes
Saissd b Dsaysr. On ons side Of ~
= ~ noee was lantsEa, a ~ oehof
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