South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-15

sabre said the letter was the
most friEhtfuuy pathetic documc nt
he could ever have imagined.
SmudEed he said and stained and
badly expressed a-.if the writer-this
Fife Bright-was crying and inco-I
herenf with distress when she wrote
h. She SAID she'd got in:o terribIeI
trouble she'd got a little baby. sabre
said 81 was awful 90 hiTh she way she
kept on in every sentence c8iiiuE u
"a little baby'-ncver child or just
a baby. but always "A hGla baby
my little baby He said +. was awful
She said 30 was born IN December
you remember. old man. * was the
previous March she'd cot the sack
from them-and that she'd been liv-
ing Zoo lodging with TO- and that now
she was well enough 90 move. and
had come 10 the absolute end Of Ier
money. she was being turned out and
was At her wits end with despair
and nearly OF OF her mind 20 know
what 10 do and all that kind 0f thing
She said her father wouldn't have
anything 20 do with her. and no one
would have anything to- do with ner
so lonS al she kept her little baby
That was her plight, no one would
have anythinE 20 do with her while
she had the baby Her father was
willing 20 take her home and some
kind people had offered 20 take her
into service. but only. all OF them If
she would give mp the baby and put
&c out 20 nurse somewhere: and she
said. and underlined 10 about IA
times. Sa bre said. and cried over IL so
YOU could hardly read IL, she said;
And. oh. Mrs Sabre. I can't I can't,
I simply cannot give up my little
baby. He's mine she said.
He looks AT me. and knows me. and
stretches out his tiny little hands 10
me. and can't give him up. can't
LET my little baby go. Whatever I've
done. I'm his mother and he's my
little baby and I can't let him go
sabre said 90 was awful 1 can
believe it was I'd seen the girl. and
I'd seen her STOPPING over her baby
and I can well believe awful was the
word for IT, Poor soul.
Ard then she said can rcmem-
her this bit-then she said, And so,
In my terrible distress. dear Mrs.
Sabre. 7 am throwing myself on your
mercy. and begging you. implOring
YOU. for the love Of God to take in
me and my little baby and let me
work for YOU and do anything for
YOU and bless you and ask Gods
blessing forever upon you and teach
my little baby 10 pray for YOU as
something or other. I forget. And
then she said a lot of hysterical
things about working her fingers to
the bone for Mrs Sabre. and know
ing she was wicked girl and not fit
20 be spoken 10 by anyone apd was
willing TO sleep in a shed in the gar
den and never 10 open her mouth,
and all that sort OF thing; and all the
way through my little baby my lit
tie baby Also she said. and Sabre
told me this bit deliberately. also she
said that she didn't want TO pretend
she was more sinned against than
SHINING. but that if Mrs Sabre knew
the truth she might Judge less harsh
lv and be more willing to help her.
Yes. sabre told me that
"Au right Well. there was the
appeal there was this piteous ap-
peal. As Sabre said and there was
Sabre profoundly touched by IT, and
there was his wife bridling over it.
one up against her husband who'd
always stuck up for the girl dyou
see and about two million mp in jus
tiicaton of her own opinion OF her.
There they were. and then Sabre
said Wen. what are YOU going 70 do
about ito
You can imagine his wlfe's tone
10 about IL, DO about it, What on
earth do YOU think I'm going to do
about ito
She was furious. Absolutely white
and speechlcss with fury. but not
speechless long. Sabre said and I
dare bet she wasn't sabre said she
worked herself up IN the most awful
way and used language about the
girl that cut him like a knife-lan-
cuaEe like speaking of the baby as
that brat II made him vince IT
wouM-thst sort of chap he is And
ne said that the more she rallied. the
more frightfuuv ne realized the girls
position. up aEaiust that sort Of
thing everywhere she turned
Gle described all that TO me and
then. so 20 speak. ne stated his case
Well what J say TO- YOU Hapgood Is
Just precisely what Z said 20 my wife
felt that the Eirl had claim on
as In the first place. she'd turned
20 us iu her affect misery for help
and that alone established "a claim
even II 10 had come from an utter
stranger. 10 established a claim be-
cause here was human creature
absolutely down and out come 20 us.
picking us out from everybody. for
~uccor Damn IT, you've got 20 re-
spoud You're picked ont. You, One
human creature by another human
creature Breathing the same air.
Sharing the same mortality. Respon-
sibIc 20 the same God. You've got to-
Nou can't help yourself
well Hapgood ne went on.
that's one claim the girl had on us.
but she had another. personal
claim she'd been in our house i'm
Our service. she was ou- friend. sat
with as. eaten with us, talked with
US. shared with us. and now. now.
turned 90 us Good God. man was
hat GO he refused Was that 90 be
denied
.'It seems that If YOU please. the
very 'neVt day the girl herself fol-
lows up her letter by walking into
ne house Tr\she walked, baby and
an shed walked an the way from
Tidhorough and God knows how far
earlier iu The DAY. sabre said she
was half dead shed been so her
fathers house. and that terrific
looking old Moses had turned her
out He'd take hcr-hc had cried
over her. the poor CRYING creature