Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-09-20

dio you gel me pluck to Dold for owe
year job mat few men would nav.
tskeD ut air lou got II from plucky
moine you bravest OF boys. You wad
ed single handed into man almost
twice your size and fought IKE 9
demon. just at De suggestion that you
could be deceptive and dishonest
Could your mother or your father have
been uDtrutbfuif Here you are, so
hungry and starved out that you are
dying for love. Where did you get all
that capacity for loving! You didn I
inherit II from hardened. heartIess
people who would distgure you and
purposely leave you TO die. that's one
sure thing. Yet you will spend miser.
able years torturing yourself with the
IDEA that your own mother might nave
cut or that hand. Shame on you.
FreckIes, Your mother would have
done this
The angel deliberately turned back
the cover. slipped up the sleeve ana
laid her lips on the scars.
"FreckIes." she cried. come TO your
senses. Be thinking. reasoning
man! You just must see IL. Like
breeds like In this worid. You must
be some sort OF reproduction OF your
parents. and am not afraid TO voucb
Tor them. nor for q minute
AND Then. TOO. II more PROOF IL
needed here IL Is: Mr.. Mclean says
tbat you are rbe most perfect gen
ueman he ever Knew. ano ne mas
Travelled the world over Then
there's your singing don't believe
there ever was q mortal with a sweet
er voice Than yours, ana while rnar
doesn't prove anything there II q
point that does. inst the little train
ing you had from that cnoirmasrer
won't account for the wonderful &C.
cent and ease with which you sing.
somewhere IN your close blood " q
marveiousiy trained vocalist: We
every one OF US believe that, treckIss
why does my father refer TO you
constantly as being OF fine perceptions
and honorf Because you are,
Freckies. Why does the BIRD Woman
leave her precious work and stay
here 10 help look after your never
,eard OF her losing any upe over |
my one else. It's because she loves
'ou. And why does Mr.. Mclean turn
III of his valuable business over to
lired men and watch over you per I
onaiiyr And why is be bunting ex- {
uses every day 10 spend money on 4
our Ny father says Mclean ID full
cotch close with dollar. He = q q
ard headed business man. Freckles.
nd he is doing II because be nndr
90 worthy OF II. Worthy of all We
IN All DO ano morn than we know D
~ 20 DO. dear hearth Freckles. are a
on listening TO meY Oh. won't you Il
ee ftl Won't you believe itp p
"Oh. angel" chartered the Devil Il
cred Freckles, ARE you truly mean b
lg 1t? Could 1t beY' ip
"Of course it could" flashed the an ca
81. because II just isr' SO
But you can't prove it" walled BIZ
TT amt giving me a name ur
me honorr' nc
. Freckles," said the angel sternly, 20
ou are unreasonablew Why, / did wi
owe every word | saidi Everything M,
owes 1T You look mere! II you knew
sure that ! could give you your pc
me and your honor and prove to you
at your mother did love you, why. IN,
en- would you just go to breathing A,
e perpetual motion and hang on for
ar life and get well3'
great light eaped into Freckles /
IS.
III knew that, angel" he said sol. h
My. you couldn't be killing me IL 4
J felled the biggest tree in the Lin Y
lost smash on mer' h
Then you go right TO work." said u
angel, land before night IN prove
thing to you: can show you cas- -
enough how much your mother -
I'd you That will be the first step,
then the rest will all come"
caught her sleeve. -
lie mother. angel. Me mother" he
veled hoarsely. Did you say you =
d be finding out today If me moth -
owed mef How? Oh. angel! All
rest don't matter, ii only me moth q
idn't do itr' Fl
hen you rest easy" said the angel.
large confidence. Your mother
7 do it. Mothers of sons ike you VI
do such things as that. III 60 to
< at once and prove it to you. The
thing to do is to go to that home
e you were and get the little
es you wore the night you were
there. know that they are re-
d to save those things carefully
AN ind out almost all there is to
about your mother from them.
Tou ever see them, FrecklesY'
s. said Freckles. WHO
angel literally pounced on him
eckies. were they whiteY' she
cago
iybe they were once They're all lnree
y with laying. and brown with iney
to of differences cro,n,nr a. W., -'Di,
be telling anything Of al nv could
angel" III
N nct sr., mornf