Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-22
GIQ1I observation-disclosures

| in our house in our service she was our
friend; sat with US eaten with US talked
with us; shared with us; and now,
turned TO ua Good God, man, was that
to be refused? Was that to be denied p
at seems that. il you please, the very
next day the girl herself follows up her
letter by walking into the house. In she
walked, baby and all. She'd walked all
the way from Tidborough, and God
! knows how far earlier in the day. Sabre
said she was half dead She'd been to her
fathers house, and that terrific looking
old Moses had turned her out. He'd take
her--he had cried over her, the poor cry
! ing creature sald--if she d send away her
| baby, also If she'd say who the father
was, but she wouldn't. I can't let my
little baby GO she said. Sabre said it
was awful, hearing her.
His wife said, You're determined
He said. Mabel Chats her name)
I'm desperately, poignantIy sorry, but
I'm absolutely determined
''She said, Very well If she's going
to be in the house, I'm out Of It, I'm
going to my fathers. Now. You'll not
expect the servants to stay in the house
while you've got this-this woman Iiv-
ing with you-(Yes, she said that.) so
l shall pay them up and send them of
now, before l go Are you still deter
miped?'
The poor devil, standing there with
his stick and his game leg, and his
face working. said, Mabel. Mabel. be-
| lieve ME, 1t kills me to say It, but
am absolutely. The girls got no home
She only wants to keep her baby She
must stop
His wife went of to the kitchen.
/ I'm about two hours his wife came
back dressed to 60. She said. There's
only one more thing I want to say to
/ you. You say this woman Cthls WON
| an. you know" old Sabre said when he
was telling me) You say this woman
! has claim on us?'
| He began. Mabel. I do. 7
''She said. Do you want my answer
TO that? Ny answer is that perhaps
she has claim on your
/ And she went"
III
We'll there you are. old man. That's
the story. That's the end. There he
( is and there's the girl. and there's the
baby; and he's what he says he is
what l told you; social outcast, beyond
the pale. ostracized. excommunicated. No
one viii have anything to do with him
They've cleared him out of the office.
or as good as done so. He says the
man Twyning worked that The man
Twyning-that Judas Iscartot chap Is
very thick with old Bright, the girls
father. old Bright pretty naturally
thinks his daughter has gone back to
the man who is responsible for her ruin
and this Twyuing person-wrote to Sabre
NJ fgfH TIM bnF al Ar4r -,
ally didn't believe it-'not for a mo-
ment, old man.. he wrote-stn Sabre
would appreciate the horrible scandal
that had arisen, and would appreciate
the fact that such n scandal could not
he permitted IN firm like theirs with
its high and holy church connections
lie said that he and Fortune had given
the position their most earnest and sym
. pathetic thought and prayers-and pray
ers, mark you-and that they'd come 10
the conclusion that the best thing 10 be
done WAS for Sabre TO resign.
"Sahre says be was knocked pretty
well silly by this step. He SAYS It was
his first realization Of the attitude that
every body vas going to take up against
him.
well. said to him. Yes, that's all
right, Sabre. Where's this going to
cnof Where's it going to land you?
It's landed You pretty fiercely as It Is
what are you doing about itl
He said he was writing round, writ
ing to advertisers and to societies and
places, to find a place where the girl
would he taken in to work and allowed
to have her baby with her. He said there
must be hundreds Of kind hearted people
about the place who would do it; it was
only a question Of finding them. Well
as to that. Kind hearts are more than coro-
nets and all that kind Of thing, but II
strikes me they're a jolly side harder
han coronets TO End when It comes to a
question Of an unmarried mother and her
baby, and when the Kind hearts, being
found, come TO make inquiries and find