Evening journal., 1922-04-15
Ccontinucd From Our Last Issuel

(Ccntinued From Our Last Issue)
g. Sabre said the letter was
the most frightfully pathetic docu-
ment he could ever have imagined
Smudged, he said. and stained and
badly expressed as II the writer
this Efie Bright-was crying and
incoherent with distress when she
wrote II. She said she'd got into
terrible trouble. She'd got a little
baby Sabre said II was awful to
him the way she kept on in every
sentence calling 1t a little baby
never a child, or just a baby, but
always a little baby my little
baby He said It was awful. She
said Il was born in December-you
remember. old man, It was the pre-
vious March she'd got the sack from
them-and that she'd been living in
lodgings with IT. and that now she
was well enough to move, and had
come TO the absolute end Of her
money she was being turned out
and was at her wits end with
despair and nearly out Of her mind
to know what 10 do and all that
kind OF thing. She said her father
wouldn't have anything 10 do with
her, and no one would have any
thing to do with her-so long as
she kept her little baby. That was
her plight; no one would have any
thing to do with her while she had
the baby. Her father was willing TO
take her home. and some kind
people had offered TO take her into
ffervice, but only all OF them, II she
would give up the baby and put Il
out 10 unrse somewhere; and she
said. and underlined it about four
teen times, Sabre said, and cried
over it until you could hardly read
ID, she said; And. oh, Mrs. Sabre. 1
can't 1 can't, I simply cannot give
up my little baby. He's
mime. she said. He looks at me.
and knows me, and stretches out
his tiny little hands to me, and /
can't give him up. I 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 60.
OADI0 Edlu IL was AWAAAt a N''H
believe It was. I'd seen the girl.
and I'd seen her STOPPING over her
baby and / can well believe awful
was the word for It, Poor soul.
"And then she said-I can remem-
her this bit-then she said, And so,
in my terrible distress, dear Mrs.
sabre. ] 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 to pray for you as.
something or other, I forget And
then she said lot OF hysterical
things about working her fingers to
tho bone for Mrs Sabre and know
irr she was a wicked girl and not h'
10 he s43olSen TO by anyone, and was
willing to sleep in a shed In the gar
den and never to open her mouth.
ana an that sort OF thing; and an
tho way through my little baby
INV little baby.' Also she said, and
sabre told me this bit deliberately
also she said that she didn't want 10
nrefend she was more sinned against
tbsn shining. but that II Mrs. Sabre
knew the truth she might judge less
harshly and be more wiling 10 heiP
hor Yes. Sabre told me that
~Au right. Well, there was inc
oo,oa, .there was this piteous ap-
-, as sabre said, and there was
robre nrofoundly touched by IT, ana
tbore was his wife bridling over It
o,o IN against her husband VINO
o,,,.,,-s stuck up for the girl dyou
soo and about two million mp IN
s,,st,ecation Of her own opinion OF
hsr There they were; and theh
r.,,so s.id We'll. what are you go
inc to do about IL?
lyon can imagine his wiie -
.po about itl DO about it' Wna'
on Garth do you think I'm soihs ~
"a about it2' ,.,.o
eho was furious Absolutely while
aud snoechless with fury nut no,
sneochioss long. Sabre said ana !
aore het she wasn't Sabre said she
zvorlsea herself up in the most awiui
Wv and used language about the
r,ri that cut him Ike knlte-iah-
rnaee ike speaking Of the hany AZ
-hat brat' It made him vince. lt
Vroaid-the sort OF chap he is And
hc said that the more she rallied,
Tho more frightfully he realized the
rirrs position. up against that sort
Of thing everywhere she turned.
eve described all that TO me and
Then. so to speak, he stated MS case
.Weu. what ] say 10 YOU hapgooo, is
Ans. preciseiy whatI said TO my VIE
felt that the girl had a claim on
nr In the first place. she'd turned
a. ms In her abiect misery for hell
ana that alone established a claim
t,.o, if ii had come from an utte
s,ranrer. II established a claim be
c.,.o here was a human creatur
absolutely down and out come 10 US
nsclxine us out from everybody 10
enccor. Damn It. you've got TO re
enond. You're picked out. You
one human creature by another hu
man creature. Breathing the sam
air Sharing the same mortalit,
RESPONSIBLE TO the same God. YouV
got toi You can't help yourself
Well Hapgood,' he went OF
that's one claim tne blti Hau "i "'
but she had another. a persona
claim. she'd been in our house,
our service; she was our friend 81
with us: eaten with US; talked wit
US: shared with US; and now, nov
turned to us. Good God, man, wa
that to be refused? Was that to b
denied p
1t seems that. II you please. III
very next day the girl herself 70
lous nm her letter by walking int