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

a i Low roU BETTER THAN ANY ONT
FgECKLxs"
JUST q little bit Now, I'm going I,
, try 1t over. and ! want you TO help M
q little You aren't too sick TO hell
. me just a little, FreckIesT'
CHAPTER XXI.
, SEEKING A sIRTHRIGHT.
l1~lRECKLES' sinewy Est knotted
into the coverlet. His chin
I'LL pointed ceiljngward and his
- head rocked on the pillow.
wait bit, ANGER he begged BE
giving me a little timer
The angel rose with controlled fea-
lures She bathed his face. straighten-
I'd his hair and held water TO his lips
II seemed an age before he reached for
Der. She took his hand and leaned
her cheek upon IL.
Tell noe. Freckies." she whispered
softly.
eff I can" said Freckles. In biting
agony. TITS just this. Angels are from
above. Outcasts are from below.
You'vs a sound body and you're beau
tifuiest OF all. You have everything
that loving. careful raising and money
can give you. | have 80 much less
than nothing that don't suppose /
had any right TO be born IFS a sure
thtnE-nobody wanted me afterward,
~ Of courns. they didn't before soms
Of them should have been telling you
long ago"
IF that's all you have to tell.
Freckles. rye known that quite
awhile" said the angel stoutly. Mr.. |
Mclean told my father. and he told |
me- That only makes me love you
more, to pay for all you've missed"
Then I'm wondering at you" said
Freckles. in a voice OF awe. Cant
you see that II you were willing and
your father would come and ofrer you
TO me. couldn't be touching the
soles OF your feet. In love-me, whose
people brawied over me, cut Off me
hand. and throwed me away TO freeze
and to die Me. who has no name
Just as much because I've no right
TO any, as because | don't know II.
When ! was little. planned to End
me father and mother when | grew
Up Now | know me mother deserted
ne, and me father was maybe thief
IND surely liar. The pity OF me
and the watching over me
las gone TO your head. dear angel.
nd It's me must be thinking for you !.
+ you could be forgetting me lost :,
and. where | was raised and that | :,
ad no name to give you, and IL you !,
7ould be taking me as | am. some :
ay people such as mine must be
light come upon you. | used to pray
'ery night and morning and many ~
mes the day to see me mother. Now =,
only pray to die quickly and never q,
SIX the sight of her 'Tain't no ways ~
'ssible. angel It's a witness OF a.
'ur dear head. Oh. do. for mercy
Ike. kiss me once more and be let ~
lg me gor' a,
Not for a minuteF' cried the angel do
Tot for minute. If those are all W,
e reasons you have. There are fir
ousands of young couples who come wi
this country and start a family Gle
tn none OF their relatives here. Chi. lief
go Is big city. and grown people ON
lld be wiped out In lot of ways. w
who would there ever be to find KIN
whom their little children belonged? Di,
} all so plain to me Oh. II ] could -
y make yeu seer I
he buried her face In the pillow and e
sently lifted is, TRANSPORTED. cri,
Now ! have ttP' she cried "Oh. dear &c
TT. l can make 1t so plainl Freck. vel
can you imagine you see the old bio
iberiost trail? Well. when we fol- old
ed it you know. there were places can
IRE ugly prickly thistles evergreen thel
path. and you went ahead with :"
r club and bent them back TO Keep gel
u from singing through my cloth Il
Other places there were great ~
ing pools where lovely. snow white you
J grew. and you waded In and ford
erred them for me. oh, dear heart, for
{ you see? It's this. Everywhere and
WIND carried that tnistiedown. 9th The
aisties sprang up and grew prick us v
nd wherever those lily seeds sank hsvs
be mire the pure white of other ers
doomed. But Fveckles. there max
never place anywhere about the on II
'ertost or In the whole world. s,t q
e the thisuedcwn foated ana rtttcl
ig up and blossomed into white rba,,
Thisues grow from thistles and wha
s.sw o."e. Ines Lear rrecsies' thing
- u.s' pee W 'ou are up Il
sA'~"eH. '0o ne'ef, new ian.
uld have drtfted from the thistle ~,
-. tell"
here did you get the courage 10
o the Iimberiost and face its ter 60.