Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-17
FIFTH EPISODE.
Copyright, 1915. Star Company


In less than a minute he returned.
greatly agitated. She's gone" he cried.
the cab, too"
Did you take the mans NUMBER
NO"
Visions of certain New York pitfalls
flashed through Barclays mind.
Tommy" he said, do what you can
TO find her. and bring her here. I'll look
after the police end"
What had happened was simply this:
The moment Tommy had entered his
fathers house CeleStia had leaned from
the cab window and told the driver TO
drive on. Why? Because she thought
that she was a trouble to him? No. It
was because when his arms had been
around her and he had kissed her and
she had kissed him back, almost all
thought of her heavenly mission to this
earth had been wiped from her mind,
and she had felt that the gates of heaven
were closing against her return And
she mustn't fail them They had told
her that when she went to earth from
The high places and put on mortal flesh
she would no longer be free from the
sufferings and temptations 10 which the
flesh is heir. And 10 and behold-already
Ehe had been blistered by the sun. had
been cold, hungry lonely, unhappy,
honesick and had evinoed the wish to
lie forever in a mans protecting arms
kissed and kissing.
Where to. Miss7"
The cab had stopped and the driver was
speaking to her through the window.
This will do" she said and she got
out Thank you very much" and then.
her head bare feet showing below
Tommys raincoat, che started to walk
away.
Hold on there" beloved the driver.
"how about my fare?'
Oh" said Celestia, turning meekly.
The driver pointed to his meter.
Sixteen dollars and fortyreight cents"
he said, with a tone of finality.
but have no money" she said.
You haven't, haven't your"
The driver leaped threatenly from his
box. and q crowd began 70 gather.
Throush this crowd a strong. loud
voiced. well dressed middle-aged woman
came pushing and struggling. She caught
Celestia by the arm and forced her back
toward the cab, the door Of which was
still open.
'Tll take care of you, dear" she said.
Sin with you"
To the driver she gave an address in a
voice which none but him heard, and a
moment later amid Jeers and murmurs
of pity, Celestia was once more whlrling
through the streets Of New York. But
the voice of the woman, though coars
and vulgar, was brusquely kind, and
celestia felt that after all her vicissitudes
she had formed a friend of her own sex-a
differentiation, be II said, of which until
that day she had never before been
conscious.
Freddie the Ferret" was q remark
able young man. His real name was
Frederick Appleton Douglas-and he
came OF good Standardization stock. If
he had been bright and bad he might
have been a gangster, But he wasn't
bright and he wasn't bad. He was
neither half-wit nor a whole wit, and
he had almost as much moral sense as a
cat That is 70 say, he had none. He
had neither more nor less moral glow
when he gave candy which he didn t
want to a ehilG than when he took candy
which he didn't want away from one.
His hahitual companions however. were
evil For many such persons in the city
had discovered that on occasion Freddie
could be tremendously useful. To begin
with. his luck distinguished him as much
az brains and talent could have done.
Some people are always finding four
leaved clovers. Freddie's gift. though he
had never seen clover patch or lived
in clover, was Of that sort. II Freddie
went through a rubbish heap he always
found something OF value. Once ht
found a diamond horseshoe and sold i
10 an Italian fruiter for six bananas II
there Wss a piece Of money or a cigar
stump, long enough TO be smoked, any
where in a gutter, Freddie was pretty
sure 10 find one OF the other II not both.
III Brown was looking for Smith, Freddie
was pretty suJs 20 have seen smith. II