Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-06

of the city. Day in and day out her voice sent its
cadence along the tube in such prosaic messag
forty-eight-four.
Not a very romantic bait for such pretty ang
throw yet it hooked heart effectually and irre(
ably Regularly as o'clock fell she turned out
the stream, and took the tram for little side
known by the euphonious name of prince Apl
Rookeres"
She was the solar system of little home o
rooms there, for its inmates counted their day and
by her comings and gongs She was brave W
braw and stuck nobly to her post that those two d
shattered creatures might eat and live, and have
being.
This evening was to prove an eventful one. A
glare and dense block of smoke met the girls
alighting and terror of she knew not what
warped her heart and made the big blue eyes
grow bigger.
Mother Aunte!" The words cut the air
like knife in their agony. The crowd looked
at her pityingly and parted, while policeman
standing near lent her helping arm, and drew
her safe distance from the burning house.
"They're doing all they can" he remarked
the brigade will soon be here. There! don't
take on. 1t amt such bad fire. I've seen worse,
and | think most of 'em in safe quarters.
Sure it's annoying to lose your bits of thin-s,
but Why, what's the natter"
Mother Aunte !" The cry became shrek,
the shrek died into a moan as she dashed past
him like frenzied thing into the smoking house.
He leaped the steps two at time after her. but
woodwork. The staircase leading to that little
home of which she was the solar system
alive with sparks, but she struck her little feet
into them bravely and assembled, cinging with
catike agility to the smoldering baustrades.
Mother Auntiel" With a wang note the
cry went before her. and died away amid the
cruel crackle of the flames. She turned the
handle of the door as it surely had never been
turned in its life before and stood-statuesque.
They had been quick to themselves-the
stronger inmates of that human rabbit warren,
but those helpless, paralytic creatures had been
left to their fate. Perhaps they did not consider
them worth saving
For one moment only the 1.-THE young form
remained rigid the next it fraught with
burning boiling life. The smoke had been merci-
full to them, and they had been spared a little of
the horror. The mother, adored by Eileen,
had dragged her poor twisted limbs to her sisters
side IN the endeavor to rouse her. She must
have been asleep when the confiagration broke
ont and Inconsistencies or sem-suffocation had
interviewed the slumber.
The elder woman lying with her arms
stretched out over her though she had given
wav to despair at the last moment. The girl
threw her warm young body on them, and felt
with fingers numb with terror their wan, gray
faces She feared the worst, but there was still
tiny huttering of the heart. A wild sob OF
prayer broke from her lips she lent her slight
to the burden. The mother first, then auntie.
would save them both, though she herself fell
to that red-hot grave. With her face set like thai
sphinx in its calm defiance she began her perilot
scent The stairs literally burned away in P
but she chung to the baustrades with all her sire
and thus gasping, slipping and jumping she game
bottom.
Like man running for wager her friend the P
man hurtled to her side. "By Georgel" he whist
he relieved her of her burden, chow on earth di
do it? l thought they'd got 'em all out Let's g'
into the open"
But Eilleen's flying feet were already rescalin
blazing stairs. Alas when she returned from the
with her second burden they had fallen in. For
ment despair seized her. her heart almost grew
with horror
The mother would miss auntiel They had
their lives together always. She must be saved
how. For moment only she halted, the mex
snrang wildly forward and tore the sheets from TIL
To knot them firmly together and fasten them
the rigid form was her next move; then lift
against her breast she advanced to the window,
With wonderful precision and nicely she guide
burden through the narrow space, then let it