The daily Alaskan., 1921-02-22
A New Romance Of the Storm Cot1utrt3

l IS SICK every uhg, uuu SliS NAAS9 wv That's misery, amt it7"
 Captain MacCauley was used to tales of woe, but he knew a panacea for them. "Yes, 1t Is so," he said. Perhaps you could get her to come here some evening Do you think you could"
 Daddy wouldn't let her." was the reply, and she lifted unfathomable saddened gray eyes to his. You see when q man owns a woman, and she don't do the things he tells her to, he ! beats her. huh?"
 There was mute pleading in her eI- 1 pression as she drew back on the bench a little farther away from him. An He might have known that she had been swept along by the relent- less tide of brutality. He sighed a little. He had seen enough of ignorant men with their supreme egotism, to know she told the truth.
 Your father is-is-cruel to your mother, then?" he faltered. !, She remained In deep thought for the space of a few seconds. 1 "A swat or two, mebbe more aln't a killIn' thing to women folks" was the response she made confusedly at length.
 So unusual had been her answer ! that Philip MacCauley gazed at her in umazemcnt
 Have you ever heard of-of GodP' he asked finally, his own confusion ap- parent in the stumble of his tongue.
 Tonnibel laughed.
 q hear God d-n mOre'n a hundred times a day" she replied. 'Is that what you mean"
 "Not Quite," answered Philip, star tied. "No! Not that"
 "Then what?" demanded Tony. What kind of q God do you mean?"
 One that is good" explained Phil ] ip. There isn't any God but the one ! who helps"
 My mummy" breathed the girl, misty tears Shadowing her eyes.
 "YeS."
 "Wherc is he, then?" The words shot forth with such Inslstence that something within Thilip MacCauley rose to its demand.
 "Some ones got to be good to my mother" the girl ran on before he could speak. She's sick-and lonely. Oh, I've got to do something for her. Where's your helpln' God, mlster1"
 Right here in. this place." said Philip. a strange emotion sweeping over him. Tn fact there isn't any l place where God Is not"
 He wouldn't come in a dirty canal 1 boat would He?' demanded Tony, breathIeSSly.
 AStonished at such crudeness, Cap tain MaCCauley shifted himself about so he faced her Squarely. Was 1t pre- | tended ignorance or innocence in the searching gray eyes? Then he decided | that truth was stamped on every line of the upturned face.
 Of course everywhere" he ex- claimed brOkenly. Why, dear child"
 Tony Devon interrupted him swift ly. Tell me how to manage It." she pleaded. How can I wheedle your God to the Dirty Mary?"
 "TO the what?" was the. question the boy asked in shocked swiftness.
 "The Dirty Mary," repeated Tony. My mummy and me live on a canal boat. Once she were just called Mary But she's so d-d nasty, Ede calls her the Dirty Mary. She's nice boat just the same as long as my mummy's there. But cant see how a clean God could come on 'er. .. l guess you're foolin' me, mister"
 Philip swallowed hard. Then slowly and gently he talked to her, trying ,J make her understand as best he could what he meant by God, Spirit.
 And you can help your mother, lit- { tle-what's your name?"
 Irony, just Tonnibel," she mumbled. Then her voice rose and she uttered sharply, Now tell me how to help my mother.'
 Philip went to the altar and sorted out small card.
 "ThiS," he said, coming back to her, has happy, loving thoughts written on It. If you think these things all the tlme-oh, how they will help both you and your mother" WOnderingly she took 1t In her fingers. The first thing that met her eyes was a beautiful upllfted face of man and in his arms was little lamb. | Underneath the picture was printed, Feed my sheep" and directly under that were the words, Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord" Once more her eyes sought the face above, a face wherein lay all the pity and l love In the world.
 Tony Devon caught glimpse of the i lesson he was trying to teach, and when she went out of the Salvation army hall she held within the depths of her q wonderfully new and utterly l strange emotion.
 She was painting for breath when she ran up the gangplank of the canal