The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17


cry Say! " she exclaimed. glance OF
enlightenment fitting over her face
amt you the Teller they call
Muggsy?"
Yep. Why"
Because if you are, you hadn't
ought to be hungry see yol give
fve dollars oncet to Sally Clark.
what's my friend an belongs to the
union, when she'd been out of lob
an her mother was sick, an she need
ed some money awful bad An she
says she's goin' to pay it back when
She gifts letter job; an | think
you're gentleman, even If you amt
got good clothes nor no money. an
won't let you go hungry, so won't
She turned to the kitchen door and
called out.
Ham eggs-over- German mince.
an -one-on- thee offee!"
Her customer turned in alarm.
Say he whispered wat Yer
givin' us? Deyll t'row me out"
She smiled sweet smile, and an
swered with assurance,
No, they won't. It's on the house.
I'll fix 1t in the check. See?" And he
saw.
What do they call you Muggsy
lori she asked, when she brought il
tho order.
Cause it's me Christian name.
s'pose."
MY names Mary Ann" she said.
Mary Ann Evans
And that is how the bread cast upop
the waters came back to Muggsy after
many days. 1t was stolen bread; and
so, perhaps, was the return. And that
Is also how he came to gain the friend
ship of Mary Ann. Muggsy came often
to the dingy little restaurant after this
and usually paid for his meals-when
his business was good And every
time he saw new beauty in the kind
hearted little waitress. He even grew
confidential.
What do you do fer Twin, Mugg.
sy?" she asked him one day
"Oh. different things. You see, |
don't work steady, but does the best
can. an sometimes | even does a
days work fer wages. like a Urinary
workin' man"
why don't you git steady job?"
she asked
lie looked perplexed. wy, little
girl, wat would | do with a steady
job, anyhow? l amt built that way.
An | makes Twin without a job"
Mary Ann was puzzled. Muggsy was
an enigma to her, but she knew he
had a generous disposition
Do you drink-much
mo, not much. amt often got
the price, an my credits played out. -
In such wise they were wont to hold
sweet discourse; though Muggsy was
secretly ashamed of it, and would not
speak to Mary Ann if any of his male
acquaintance were visible The lit
tie red-haired beauty was very COM
municative, and Muggsy soon knew
that she was the only daughter of a
wash lady" who lived in a room on
the third floor of tenement thre e
blocks south, and that she had one
little brother, Jimmy, who sold pa
pers.
Suddenly there was a lull in the
progressive friendship. Muggsy YVES
absent for a month, and Mary AIMS
greenishye yellow eyes peered in vain
through the swinging screen doors and
down the dirty street for his familiar
shuttle and good-natured grin. She did
not know that he had gone to the
worklouse because an officer with a
grudee against him had found him re-
moving brass journals from a box-car
one night. When he got out, a change
had come over him. Never before had
he thought of concealing his misfor-
tunes from his friends, any more than
he had thought of telling the truth to
J the police. But now he was really
, ashamed to let Mary Ann know where
he had been, and he did not exactly
want to lie to her.
J Finally he went shamefacedly to the
restaurant. 1t was full of strange
faces. He hadn't the heart to ask
questions. A day or two later he
, hunted up the llace where she had
told him she lived. He found Mary
, Ann, after climbing through a stair
, way full of children. She was sitting
= alone in the room that served her fol
home, and her eyes were red. The
: place was almost bare of furniture ant
> in disorder. Muggsy therefore felt al
: home, though Mary AIMS tears EN-
5 barrassed him. But her little eyes
, frightened, and she grasped his big
l coarse hand and told him how "awfu
g glad" she was to see him, and how
lonesome she had been since he hadn'
; come to the restaurant any more, ant
| then she broke down and cried.
q "Dont-now, don't do that way, lie
tie girl" stammered Muggsy. Whats
I gone wrong, Mary Ann?"
Then she told him of her mother
"havin' died of heart failure or sum
q min like that" only two weeks before
and of the union having struck fol
= shorter hours at the same time, ant
, of ber heing out of work with no pros