The Bismarck tribune., 1922-04-22
Continued From our Last Issue

g. Sabre said the letter was the
most frishtfully pathetic document
he could over have imagined.
Smudged, he said, and stained and
badly expressed as II the writer-this
Effie Bright crying and inco-
herent with distress when she wrote
it, He said she'd got into terriol }
trouble. Shed got little baby. Sabre
said it was, awful to him the way she
kept on in every sentence, calling it
little baby'-never child, Or just
a baby. but always "a little baby,
my littly baby He said it was awful.
She said it was BORN in, December
you remember, old man, it was the
previous March she'd got the sack
from them and Sthat she'd been liy-
ing in lodgings with ,it,9and that rpw
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 to do. and ail that kind of thing.
She said her father wouldn't have
anything to do with her, and r,o one
would have anythingoto do with her
so long Sa6 she kept her little baby.
That was. her plight, not one would
have anything to do With her while
she hal the baby Her father was
willing to take her home, and some
kind people had offered to take her
into service, but only, all of them, if
she would give up the baby and put
it out to- nurse somewhere; and she
said, and underlined it about fourteen
times, Sabre said, and cried over it so
you could hardly read it, she said:
And, CHI, Mrs. Sabre, I can't, / can't,
l 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 to
me, and l can't give him up. can't
let my little baby go Whatever I've
cone, I'm his mother and he's my
little baby and can't let him go ;.
Sabre said it was awful. can
believe It was. I'd seen the girl, and
Ia seen her STOPPING over her baby
and l can well believe awful was the
word for it. Poor soul.
"And then she said--I can remem-
bcr this b:t-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 tor other, ] 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 a wicked girl and not fit
to BID spoken to by anyone, and was
willing to sleep in a shed in the gar
den and never to open her mouth, and
all that sort (of thing; and all the way
through my little baby my little
baby Also she said, and Sabre told
me this BIT eliberately, also she said
that she didn't want to pretend she
was more sinnei against than sim
ming, but that If Mrs. Sabre knew the
truth she might Judge less ilarshly
and be more willing> to help her. Yes,
Sabre told me that -.
"All right. Well, there was the
there was this piteous ap-
real as Sabre said, and there was
Sabre profoundly touched by it, AMI
there was his wife bridling over it
one up against her husband who'd al
ways stuck up for the girl, d'you see,
and about two million up in jus''fi-
cnt',n Of her own opinion of her.
There, they were; and then Sabre
said, We'll, what are you going to DO
about it?'
"You can imagine his wife's tone.
DO about it! Do about it! What on
earth do you think I'm going to do
about it?'
She was furious. Absolutely white
and s:oeechless with fury; but not
speechless long. Sabre said, and I
dare b7..-. she wasn't. Sabre said she
worked herself up in the most awful
wav and used LANGUAGE about the
girl that cut ilim like knise--lan-
guage like sneaking Of the baby as
that brat 1t made him vince. It
would-the sort .of chap he is. And
he, said that the more she rallied, the
more frightfully he realized the gilrs
rosit'on, up againt that sore Of
thing everywhere she turned
He described all that to me and
then. so to speak, hs<stated his case.
We'll, what say to you HapeDnd. is
lust precisely what said to my wife
felt thot the girl had claim on
us. In the first place, she'd turned