The Bismarck tribune., 1922-04-22
baby. She must STOP

Fbaby. She must stop.
"Iis wife went off to the kitchen.
! ''ln 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 wo-
man (This woman, you know!' old
Sabre said when he was telling me.)
you say this woman has claim on
us?'
'tHe began, Mabel, l do, T.
She said, "Do you want my an
swer to that? My answer is that per-
haps she has a claim on you!'
And she went
"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, ostracized,
excommunicated. No one will have
anything to do with him. They've
cleared him out of the office, or as
J)od as done so. He says the man
Twyning worked that. The man
rwyning-that Judas Iscar.ot chap,
lis very thick with old Bright, the
girls father. Old Bright pretty ma
.urally thinks his daughter has gone
back to the man who is responsible
for her ruin, and this Twyning per-
son-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
.act that such scandal could not be
permitted in firm like theirs with
is high and holy Church connections.
He said that he and Fortune had
given the pos'tion their most earnest
md sympathetic thought and prayers
and prayers, mark you-and that
hey'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 atti-
Jude that everybody was going to take
Up against him.
"W1ell, I said to him, Yes, that's
all right, Sabre. Where's this going
% end? Where's it going to land
you? It's landed you pretty fiercely
is it is. What are you doing about
.t?' +
"He said he was writing round,
writing to advertisers and to societies
md places, to find a place where the
girl would be, taken in to work and
allowed to have her baby with her.
lie said there must be hundreds of
Kind hearted people about the place
rho would do it; it was only a ques-
ion CT finding them. Ws.l, as to
hat, KIND hearts are more than corO-
lels and all that kind of thing, but
It strikes me they're q jolly site
aacdar than uoronets to find when il
ZONES to question of an unmarried
mother and her baby, and when the
Kind .lea: IS, being found3 come to
make inquiries and find that the per-
son making application on the girls
behalf is the man she's apparently
living With, and the man with Sa-
sbre's extraordinary record In regard
to the girl. didn't say that to poor
old Sabre. All that chain of circum-
stances, eh? Went out of his way to
get her her first job. Got her into
mis- house. In a way responsible for
her getting the sack. Child born
just about when it must have been
born after she'd 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? don't believe
he realizes for a; moment what an ex-
traordinary coil it all is. GOD help
him if he. ever does, He'll want it.
mo, 1 didn't say a word like that
to him. l said, What do you sup
pose your wife's thinking all athis
timer sta ,sEFiaf&% sz&Srs
HE. said his wife would BE- abso-
lutely all right once he'd found a
home for the girl and sent her away.
'I said, HIM. Heard from her?'
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