The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-13


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 continued the angel. Free kles was listening most attent1vely now. "When she got here all atone and afraid" fhe angel went on. and saw him coming to her. why, she was so glad she up and married him. just like anybody else would have done. He didn't want her to travel with the troupe. so when they got, to Chicago they thought that would be a good place. and they stopped. and he hunted work. Ii was slow business. because he had never been taught 10 do a useful thing. and be didn't even know how to hunt work. least of all to do It when he found it: so pretty soon things were going wrong. But if he couldn't find work. she could always sing. so she sang at night. and made little things in the daytime, He didn't like her to sing fn public. and he wouldn't lei her when he could help himself; but winter came. it was very cold, and fire was ex- pensive. Rents went up. and they had to move farther out to cheaper and cheaper places; an you were coming ! mean. the boy that is lost was com ing-and they were almost distracted. Then the man wrote and told his father all about it. and his father sent the, letter hack unopened and wrote him to never write again.
 "When the baby came. there was mighty little left to pawn for food and a doctor, and nothing at all for a nurse. so an old neighbor woman went in ana took care of the young mother and the little baby, just because she was so sorry for them. By that time they were away out in the suburbs on the top floor of little wooden house. among a lot of factories. and 1t kept getting colder, with less to eat. Then the man got desperate. and he went out to just find something to eat; and the woman was desperate, too. She got up. left the old woman to take care of her baby and went into the city to sing for some money The woman got so cold she put the baby In bed and went home. Then a boiler blew up in a faStory beside the little house and set it on fire. A piece of iron was pitched across the little house and broke through the roof It came down smash. and cut just one little hand of the poor baby. It screamed ana screamed. and the fire kept coming closer and closer,
 ''The old woman ran out with the rest of the people and saw. what had happened. She knew there wasn't going to be time to wait for the fire men or anything. and she ran into the building. She could hear the poor little baby screaming. and she couldn't stand that. so she worked her way up to 1t. There it was. all hurt and bleed ing. Then she was scared almost to death over thinking what its mother would do to her for going or and leaving if. so she ran to a home for little friendleSS abies that was near and banged on the door. Then she hid across the street until the baby was taken in. and then she ran back to see if her own house was burning up. The factory and the little house and a lot of others were all gone. The peo- pie there told her that the beautiful lady came back and ran into the house to find her baby. She had just gone in when her husband came. and he went in after her. and the house went down over both of them"
 Freckles lay rigid. with his eyes on the angels fac1. and she talked rap'~- ly to the ceiling.
 ''Then the old woman was just sick about that poor little baby. She was afraid to fell them at the home. be- cause she knew she never should have left 1t. but she wrote letter and sent 1t 10 where the beautiful woman. when she was i'll. nad said her husbands people lived. She told all about the 1 little baby that she could remember: when it was born. how it was named | for tEe mans elder brother. that its | nand had been cut of in the fire. ana | where she had put it to be doctored | and taken care or. She told them that l it's mother and father were both burn | ed. and she begged and impIored them I to come and get it.
 ''YOu think it would have melted a heart of ice. but that old man hadn't ]