The Washington herald., 1906-11-30
FOR OF SUCH"
"One good deed, dying tongueless.
GiarolItfzre a tho-fzand Waftfnr UpOU

phalt.
She was bewildered with the strange
sights and sounds Of foreign city. Her
gray, sparse hair blew like denser fog
across her failing eyes. and her slipshod
feet slid uncertainty through the unclean
puddles in the street.
She was tired with the long days labor,
and the market-basket was too heavy for
her aged arm The basket was full Of
tempting provisions. for the dear daugh-
ter would dine with her tomorrow. 1t
would be a banquet ft for that beloved
fraulein, who was the light of her life
and her lure across 5000 miles Of sea-
At the corner Of X street she stopped
10 shift the basket. which was cutting
a furrow In her habby flesh As she
started to cross Twentieth street. a man
on a wheel. lampless. bell-iess, needless.
and heartless, ran her down and went
over her unresisting body as = lay in
limp huddle near the curb.
She was quite a.one. and she made no
cutlery. The man sped on his way. How
long she lay there bleeding no man knows
The policeman was not in evidence. No
one expected. and therefore. no one sought
her. A belated diner-out leaned from his
carriage to note a sLadOwy something
which looked like an old cast-off coat
which his wheels nearly grazed, and his
horses shied wildly as they stumbled
among turnips and onions. cranbeT-ies and
chickens, spilling out Of a basket which
went wabbling between their feet
God could not be everywhere. and so
he made"-girls. One OF them, also
belated. and due at the same dinner,
came rapidly down X street, daintily lift-
ing her gauzy pink gown as she uod on
i corner Of that shadowy something. In
another instant the street was alive with
running men and women, rushing TO give
help in response 10 her scream. Two
policemen instantly arrived from no
where, and found the girl sitting square
~ in the mud with the bleeding old head
pillowed on her lap, obliyious Of the gauzy
gown and the gaping crowd.
ITS the little German frau. who came
last week 10 join her daughter that's
nurse" said the girl. Il do not know
their name. but l know their faces. She
smiled at me only yesterday. and said
something 10 me which / could not un-
derstand as l passed her, and she looked
so dear and sweet and mCtherly, ! want
ed TO kiss her then, and nOW-it's no
use'-and she dabbed her own eyes with
the little Iace-edged bit OF kercnief with
which she had been trying 10 stanch
the read stream which flowed slowly
fIom the white forehead. and she left
two tell-taIe touches on her cheeks which
did not yet need rouge.
Do you know where she lives?"
frrrr in Rf. mir ~ rrf
block I have seen her coming in and
out, and waiting at the window for her
daughter. ThiFd floor front" she added
The somber procession was well on its
way when the girl noted for the first time
that another woman was carefully col
lecting from the ooze the spilled contents
Of the basket \ warm smile and a
CHEEKY That's good Of you"' greeted the
deed, and together they passed on with
the crowd
A. the door Of the house the girl turned
to take the basket which had been the
unwitting cause Of the adventure The
woman who carried ii was far down the
street
It would have done a cynic's soul good
I 10 hear the shout OF rapture which went
( up from that crowd as the girl snatching
Up her impeding skirts sped down the
Z
/ painting. the basket, with all its contents,
safe on her plump, iyory-white arm Up
/ three flights she followed the minions Of
| the law, still carrying the fraulein's =
Sunday dinner.
| Il was the girl who found the key. un-
/ der the doormat il was the girl who
I 'phoned for the doctor. her own. IL was
: the girI who personally superintended the
undressing and bathing and Te-dressing
( of the still unconscious woman: she who
sifted the city to send safe message TO
/ the daughter, whose very name she had
not known an hour ago
At o'clock Sunday morning, as the
4 belated diuer-0Ut was returning home he
remembered at the corner Of Twentieth
street the old cast-Off coat which he had
previously seen, and he glanced out OF
! his carriage curiously 10 see II il still Law
where he had left it. A girl was coming
rapidly down X street, In a gauzy pink
gown which was muddy and towsled and
+ stained with something suspiciously ike
( blood. She was bit pallid. and she bore
4 an amazing resemblance to the Ioveliest,
richest. most aristOCradC, and most ar
IDENTIFY sought after debutante OF the sea-
J son, tne bright particular She IN whose
/ honor that dinner had been given.
/ Eillsby and his bride were house-hunt-
/ ing. Billsby was blatant, as usual. and
/ swaggered along Vermont avenue swing
/ ing his cane as if il were a cudgel The
bride. with a fine, unconscious effort TO
I even up. and present 4 symmetrical front
to the public, was a little less exuberant
/ than her won't little more restrained
and gentle, and her voice was pitched an
! octave lower than usual 1t was a voice
! that ordinarily you could not have resist
ed, but this morning it was fresher than
/ the lark, and as tender as a cooing dove.
and two or three men who hurled them
selves out of the Leclede late for office.
slowed down to look at her.
A black kitten, hiding in d shadow Of the
! paling, heard that mother-note and ran
: out fearlessly. as if she had called it by
name. It was a guLts~-cat. homeless and
starving. and had recently been mauIed
{ by some NANCY dog. instigated by boys
who would in time be brutes The bride
: leaned over 10 touch the piteous little
creature, but before her gloved hand could
reach 1t Billsby's cane came down upon ii
with a TeSOundng whack, which sent il
far from her immaculate presence. As
/ Bilsby went up the steps the bride
glanced back and noted that the kitten
crept along on three legs-the fourth
! hopelessly broken. She looked up at the
rotund back Of her spouse and shuddered
with fear and repugnance.
At the back OF the house runs an alley
( bordered with row Of squat two-story
dwellings,. On the doorstep Of one Of these
sprawled a lad whose vaCuOus smile sug-
lgested degenerate brain. He held a huge
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