The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-04-18

U ran of and followed DER.
- continued the angel. Free
kles was listening most attentvely
now. when she got here all alone and
afraid" the angel went on. "and saw
him coming TO her. why. she was so
glad she mp 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 n good
place. and they stopped and he 0nnted
work. IL was slow business. because
he had never been taught to do nneful
thing. and be didn't even know how TO
hunt work. least OF all 10 do IL when
be found Il: so pretty soon things were
going wrong HUT II 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 In public. and he wouldn't let her
when be could help himself but winter
came. 1t was very cold. and fire was ex-
penslve Rents went up. end they had
20 move farther ont 10 cheaper and
cheaper places; an you were coming
! mean. the boy that is lost was com
ing-nnd they were almost distracted.
Then the man wrote and told his father
all about IT, ana mis- father sent the
letter back unopened and wrote him 10
never write again.
"When the baby came. there was
mighty little left to pawn for food and
doctor, and nothing NJ all for Il nurse.
80 an old neighbor woman went In and
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 |
door Of a little wooden house. among a |
lot OF factories. and II 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 10 take care of her baby
and went into the city 10 sing for some
money. The woman got so cold she
put the baby In bed and went home
Then a boiler blew mp In a factory
beside the little house and set II on Dire
y piece OF iron was pitched across the
little house and broke through the roof
1t came down smash, and cut just one
little hand or the poor baby. II
screamed ana screamed. ana 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 II. There II was. all hurt and bleed
ing. Then she was scared almost to
death over thinking what its mother
would do to her for going of and
leaving IL. so she ran to a home for
little friendless babies 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 II her own house was burning up
The factory and the little house aud
lot of others were all gone. The peo
pie there told her that the beautiful
lady came back and ran into the house !
40 hnd her baby. She had just gone
in when her husband came. aud he
went in after her. and the house went
down over both Of them"
Freckles lay rigid. with his eyes on
the Angels face. and she talked rapid
Iy 10 the ceiling.
Then the old woman was Just sick |
about that poor little baby. She was 5
afraid 10 tell them al the home. be- /
cause she knew she never should have 7
left IL. but she wrote a letter and sent
1t TO where the beautiful woman. when I
she was H. nad SAID her husband
people lived. She told al about the s
HUE baby that she could remember: Z
when il was born. how Il was named Z
for the mans elder brother, that its f,
hand nsd been cut Of IN the fire. ana
where she had PIT Il 70 be ooctored !
aid taken care os. She told tbem that +,
fits mother and father were both burg {
I'd. and she begged and iuoplored them j
10 come and get IL
You THINK II would have melted q ,
besrt Of ice. bur that oio man hadn't :
any beaFT - melt. for be gyt rbat Ier- ,
ter ana read II De hid il away ,
among ms papers ana nere. t0id I