The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-04-13

replied to her question
''Wot kin you do for me? A lot,
miss. | come here to see you an de
little kids. Trot EN- out. Show me
dere paces;" and Sam seated himself
in the magisterial seat, with an as.
sumption of being very much at his
ease.
You mean that you would like to
see some of their games?"
Yes. An have EN- sing" command
ed Sam.
Here was a way to quiet the chill
dren, who, in their accustomed rou-
tine, would forget the forbidding
aspect of their visitor Making them
form circle, their mistress led their
thin, sweet voices in the song of the
carpenter and farmer, with gestures
illustrative of their occupations.
, Sam looked on with an interest
amounting to absorption. Never had
: he supposed that childhood contained
, such interests. such pleasures. such
! stores of information. His mind went
back to his own early days, and he
q dimly felt that its excitements were
!. not TO be compared to these delights.
d he thought Of his father and mother.
a He had heard that his father had died
d in Jail. He had spent two years In
!, the same jail himself He never looked
for his mothers grave-never even
t. asked its whereabouts. He thought OF
Sal. and wondered. 1t was years since |
<, any of them had come into his mem. i
o DRY.
d The blocks were being put away to |
n the music Of merry tune, when the |
teachers voice reached him as from a
distance, and her face was seen as
through mist.
Would you like to see the children
+ march?'
She had placed them in line, with the
tallest boy at the head, and was pass
ing by him TO go to the piano, when the
tramp suddenly exclaimed:
|. "Stop,''-in a tone that made her
\ knees vbrate.
H Where did yous git dat?" he said,
| pointing a dirty finger at a silver coin
y hanging from her watch chain.
This? I've had it always" returned
the girl, holding up the dime with its
~ engraving on one side. Sam took it
"a between his thumb and finger. very
= much TO her discontinue, and read on
it, in wellcut letters
SAM
and underneath. rudely scratched:
SAL.
There came to his remembrance like
flash the day when he had found
that coin engraved with his name,
1,{l cd in
the street. and how he had taken it
i, home, and had scratched on it with his
knife the baby's name. and had tied
it about her neck with piece of pink
the string.
ned WHO are you?" he demanded, look
ats ing at her earnestly, and still holding
cts. the coin.
Sally Brandon
the Go on
9TH Mrs. Humphrey Brandons adopted
lsly daughter"
of Who's yer father?'
row The girl was almost crying.
Il don't know. | came from home
but in New York Mrs. Brandon adopted
of me and had me trained to teach
al Why'd she call you Sally?'
tile 'They told her at the home that tina
the was all of my name that the police
man who took me there told them, an
err" they gave her this to keep for me
eve II was round my neck when l was re
that ceived.'
leci- Sam now was sure of her identit,
She was Sal. the baby. He looked
Sam her keeny, then sat down, saying
aze bfef1y:
he set de kids agoin'.''
,rea- While the merry Iharch Sounue
not AGAINST his deaf ears, Sam revolve
the situation. Under ordinary clrcur
n hv stances if he had found anyone who's
ANS leg" he could pull" he would hay
This pulled it without hesitation. Som
,tted thing of the sort he thought OF no.
,;tt,o for he had no doubt but that he cou
&c nersuade her of his identity eve
brsv though her baby mind had retained
memory of the tenement-house day
ID Ar anv rate he could brighten her o
clay of money.
:, Rut strangely enough, he did
!, 40 want TO and this for the first time
dren his lie Wheh 'ne'e was
eggs DOODLE
nro- He looked at ner slhootn Hail,
sweet face, her neat dress; he watcn
no her skill as the music ran out fre
n lit beneath her swift fingers; ne RENE
80 hored her control over the childrs
= re. and her evident knowledge OF her p
fossion His thinking resolved its
aven into murmur inaudible to her
81 guess she amt got no use fei
add, ,ike me: an" he added, W
was grim ,humor, Il dunnos could USE
make sister like her.
oirl So never a word said Sam on
. FACE subiect. and when the march was o.
she he took his leave.
her eMuch obliged. teacher, fer yer I
er IN likeness. / wisht I'd had sen
like dis when l was brat an
,sked. much obliged to de little kids'
am Good-by."
-, .c,o5hyt" they shouted in chor