The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-22

months old. They let's the kids out up
there, you know. two-fifty a week, and
the old lady thinks maybe it would be
company for her with me away nights.
| his rather took a tumble off a ferry
boat, and just as she was leaving Hardy
| up at the foundlings' his mother topped
all to once and died too. So took
MIN when my mother died last winter,
and the two OF us has bachelors hall
over on Cherry street,
tried to say more. but the words would
pie, and awful. this little tragedy of the
very Door man.
Il haven't been sorry did it. There's
always enough for him, and I'd like to
give him a chance. He's thoroughbred,
Perhaps can help. too said Miss
0rvis. hesitatingly, half shyly. I'D like
Reddy's clear; anxious eyes looked at
her longingly. In her trim, girlish way.
with the glamour of another world about
and Cherry street. she seemed to typify
all he wanted his little thoroughbred to
%, could take him with me over to the
settlement" she went on. amy evening
lift of her long g iasRhes at him; perhaps
you might like It. too. Mr.. Lane?"
Like it? Reddy walked on ti?t t,s, all III
a wonder like those of a dream-ha united
child, and Hardy had to dodge the troll
leys himself at the Bowery crossing.
The next night. as Pauline Oryis went
up the steps of the Endeavor settlement,
she found the two already there. walt ait
in the warm, strong grip of Reddy Lane,
for love, With sympathy as a snare.
And after that night a queer thing nap
morning as She stood at the head OF the
stairs with the, two lines or small boy 5
se m her cheeks @ Hardy drew
For not single morning passed that
toll fe- To- flT1 1aa. n haT a
morning where they. came from.
Red gets them from an old man on
they look like YOU
One night toward the end of June they
Settlement house, looking down. on the
crowds passing below along the highway
of pushcarts. Miss Orvis was pleading
the cause of Hardy.
LET me take him with me for the sum
m9ch good Sne 0f Being with n mes u"ie MN
Some one else, too, murmured Reddy
but she went on.
would be SO much company for me. Be
sides, it will. give you time - study, if,
parapet. s.if you really intend talking the
YOU Know what intend doing" he in
do what you've done for the little chap
I suppose / may run up now and then
just to see how he's getting on" ,o.,
and without invitation.
And if I pass. and get the Harrison
appointment this fall, why, it's you that's
to blame"
and vaguely frightened.
That's what I said. You've taken and
encouraged me the same as you have the
boy, and made both of US love you to
death Oh, you know it's so all right
And If do win out and make something
of myself, it's you that made me try and
feel it was worth while. Before I was
only thinking of the boy. and working
'Yes?" He could hardly catch her
whisper, but his hand suddenly crushed
Now. it's for you and me- Can
come if I win the appointment
Down in the street below some one was
playing on a harp, while a ring of chill
dren danced and sang the chorus of a
popular song. The words floated up to
the shadowY balcony.
Life is so short that when. we die.
IT'S time enough to say good-by."
She turned her face to his.
Come anyway she ;-tCopyright-
ed, 1907, by P. c. EastmentO