The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-13
Effective Connor's Heart Adventures

bundle. So after bit. feeling sure she
had her eyes on me, / stops rather short
she comes along timid and shv. but
soon saw she was kind of determined
and when she got close to me, I see she
mad baby in her arms, lust as
mad guessed, it. The kid was so wrapped
up, so l couldn e see its face. -
Bill wiped his mouth with the back
of his hand.
| 'Well, when she got close I'D, she
stops, and speaks to me.
Mlsterl' says she-and her voice
was sort of out of breath as if she d beer
a runn,ng-' would you please do me a
''She had kind of pretty face. most
ly eyes, and her voice sounded sort OF
| nice and soft like.
Well ! seq, sez I, Il don t like
refusing TO do anything | can for the
ladies, and what might be your asking
me TO do for you?'
And then she sez, Would you be
klnd enough, mister, TO take this bundle
to John O'Donovan IS in the next block
at hundred and nine Bleecker?'
" s baby sez, sort of amused
like.
Yes!' she seq. IS baby And
she hnrries the words ont. 'They sent
me with it from the Home over in
Spring street, | was TO leave il al
Donovan 8, but my husband caught
ME and wouldn t let me bring it earlier
l Jest got away from him, seein' he s
pretty far gone In liquor, and / IN
AFRAID he I'll beat me if I'm gone away
long; He's good man when he don u
drink.
~ began to explain, Colonel, AS how
we d take care of him if he beat her,
when she went right on again.
Please take the baby, mister,
Il 10 y MI nj
be awfully angry at the Home, and
the O'Donovans will be mad, and my
husband will be mad, and oh, what
shall / do2'
''Well, before / knew what was hap
pening, and quick as snap of your fin
ger, she laid the baby in my arms-and
turned on her heel and ran down
Bleccker street Jest like streak.
NJ, Well, Colonel, | couldn't help it.
in my arms, and she gone like n flash
of lightning. 1t beat any him.fa
game ] ever saw. Well, knew where
the O'Donovans lived. all right. as |
pass the house every night on the way
home. They'v got an outside bell,
with shiny brass plate and their name
on 1t, / remember that about six
months ago there was some white crepe
tied to the bell, and I heard they had
1Ncb thNli hip. -Natuid any . P'Stu
they were adopting another baby from
the Home, and this woman was asked
TO bring it over.
$50 | went along carrying the bun.
die, which had an old shawl on the
outside. and when 1 got to o O'Dono-
vans [ gave a pull on the bell, and
had made up my mind to ask for the
missus, when the door opened and a
youngish, big, six.footed man stood
there. I sez, is Mrs. O'Donovan to
home? She is he seq.
4 brought her a valentine l SEE.
| don't know jes' what made me say
those words, cause Ia forgot it was
the fourteenth, but / just blurted it
out like that, fore / though, and then
| scz, too. 'I'm kind of late, but bet.
ter late than never
-" Come in,' he sez, and III call
Mrs. O'Donovau.' So / stepped in the
hall, and he shut the door after me not
noticin the bundle very particular,
and then he went TO the end of the
hall, and called, EN- 'ly! En- 'ly, here s
a valentine, as has Jest come for you. ,
"In about a minute out comes a
Young woman, who might have been
mighty pretty if she hadn I looked so
cross like. She sort of stared at me
with her big eyes, and mo standin
there like fool, holding the baby,
which was getting kind of heavy by
this time,