The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-15

day. Sabre said she was hall.
dead She'd been to her fathers
house, and that terrifc-lookLng old
Moses had turned her out. He'd.
take her-ha had cried over her,
the poor crying creature said-if
she'd send away her baby, also II
she'd say who the father was, but
she wouldn't. I can't let my little
baby co. she said. Sabre said It
was awful. hearing her.
His wife said, You're deter
mined?"
"He said. Mabel Chats her
name) Mabel, I'm desperately,
potghantiy sorry, but I'm abso-
lutely determined
"sne said, Very we'll. II she's
going to be in the house, I'm out
of 1t. I'm going to my fathers
Now. You'll not expect the SER
wants to stay in the house while
you've got this-this woman liv-
Ing with you CYes, she said.
that). so / shall pay them up
and send Them of. now, before l
so. Are you still determined?"
'The poor devil, standing there
with his stick and his game leg,
and his face working said, Mabel,
Mabel, believe me, 1t kills me to
say 1t, but I am absolutely. The
girls got no home. She only
wants TO keep her baby. She must
%His wife went OF to the kit
chen.
I'm about two hours his wife
came back dressed to go. She
said, There's only one more thing
] want to say to you. You say
this woman (This woman, you
know!' old Sabre said when he
was telling mel You say this
woman has a claim on us?"
HE began, Mabel, l do. L.
"She said, DO you want my
answer. TO that? My answer is
that perhaps She has a claim on.
you'll"
And she went"
III
well, 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 / told
you: a social outcast, beyond the
pale, o%straclzed, communicated.
No one will have anything to do
with him. They've cleared him
out OF the Office, or as good as
done so. He says the man Twyn-
ing worked that, The man Twyn-
tng-that Judas Iscarlot chap, lis
very thick with old Bright, the
girls father. Old Bright pretty
naturally thinks his daughter has
gone back to the man who Is res
ponsible for her ruin, and this
Twyning person-wrote to Sabre
and told him that, although he
personally didn't believe it-'not
for a moment, old man, he wrote
still Sabre would appreciate the
horrible scandal that had arisen,
and would appreciate the fact that
such a scandal could not be per-
mttted In a firm like theirs with
its high and holy church connec-
lions. He said that he and For.
tune had given the position their
most earnest and sympathetic
thought and prayers-and prayers
mark you-and that they'd come
to the conclusion that the best
thing to be done was for Sabre TO
resign.
Sabre says he was knocked
pretty we'll silly by this step. He
says 1t was his first realization Of
the attitude that everybody was
going to take up against him.
well, I said to him, Yes, that's
all right, Sabre. Where's this
going to end? Where's It going to
land YOU? It's landed you pretty
tiercely as 1t is. What arc you
doing about it,"
HE said he was writing round,
writing to advertisers and to SO.
cieties and places, to find a place
where the girl would be taken in
to work and allowed 10 have her
baby with her. He said there
must be hundreds Of kind-hearted
people about the place who would
do It: 1t was only a question OF
finding them. Well las to that,
kind hearts are more than coron-
cts and all that kind Of thing, but
1t strikes me they're q jolly side
harder that coronets to find when
1t comes to a question Of an un-
married mother and her baby, and
when the kind hearts, being found
come to make inquiries and find
that the person making applica-
ton on the girls behalf Is the man
she's apparently living with, and
! the man with Sabre's extraordin-
airy record in regard to the girl. I
didn't say that to poor old Sabre.
All that chain OF circumstances,
eh? Went out Of his way to get
her her first job. Got her into his
house. In = way responsible for
her getting the sack. Child born
just about when It must have been
born after she's been sacked. Girl
coming to him for help. Writing
to his wife, If only you knew the
TRUTH Wife leaving him.. Eh?
It's pretty fierce, isn't it, I don't
believe he realizes for a moment
what an extraordinary coil it all
is. God help him II he ever does.
He'll want 1t.
No, I didn't say a word like
that to him. I said, What do you
suppose your .wife's thinking all
this timer"
HE said his wife would be
absolutely all right once he'd
found a home for the girl and sent