The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-11
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 CHAPTER V
 AS he stood rooted fo the spot n a Mrili cry reached hls ears E. came. not from the passages beyond the door. but from another part of the old building. and sounded Ike the cry Of someone % the dark who had lost the way.
 He looked confusedly upon his hands and limbs. as if fo be aft ired of his identity. and then shouted in reply. loudly and wildly. for there was a strangeneSs and terror upon him as if he. too. were lost
 The cry responding and being nearer, he caught up the lamp. and raised a heavy curtain in the wall by which he was accustomed to pass into and out of the theater where he iectured-which adjoined his room.
 "Halloal" he cried. Halloa! This wayl Come Co the lightl' When. as he held the curtain with one hand. anu HAAsA NAAN VAAANA A1AetA AAAh AAsAAF and tried to pierce the gloom that filled the place. something pushed past him into the room like q wild cat, and crouched in Q corner.
 What Is it?" he said hastily.
 He might have asked What is it?" even he had seen it well, as presently he did when he stood looking at 1t gathered up in it's cor ner.
 A BUNDLE of tatters, held to- "A gether by a hand, in size and form almost an infants, but, in it's greedy, desperate little clutch, bad old mans A face rounded and smoothed by ome half-dozen years, but pinched and twisted by the experiences of life. Bright eyes, but not youthful Naked feet, beau tiful in their childish delicacy-ugly in the blood and dirt that cracked upon them.
 Used, already, to be worried and hunted like a beast, the boy at, and looked back again, and in- terposed his arm to ward off the eX- pected blow.
 I'll bite" he said, If you hit me"
 The time had been, and not many minutes since, when such sight as this would have wrdng the Chemists heart He looked upon it now, coldly; but, with heavy ef- fort to remember something-he did not know what-he asked the boy what he did there, and whence he came
 where's the woman?' he re- piled. T want to find the woman"
 "Who?"
 The woman. Her that brought me here, and set me by the large fire. She was so long gone that T went to look for her, and lost my self. I don't want you. I want the woman
 He made A spring, so suddenly, to get away, that the dull sound of his naked feet upon the floor was near the curtain, when Redlaw caught him by his rags.
 "Comel you let me goI" nut tered the boy, struggling, and clenching his teeth. T have done nothing to you. Let me go, will you, to the woman!"
 That is not the way. There is a nearer one," said Redlaw, detain- ing him, in the same blank effort to remember some association that ought of right to bear upon this oh{aAf GGUThof ic name?"
 "Got none"
 Where do you live?"
 'Livel Whats that?'
 The boy shook his hair from his eyes, to look at him for a moment, and then twisting round his legs and wrestling with him, broke again into his repetition of You let me go, will you? want to find the woman"
 The Chemist led him to the door. This way he said, looking at him still confusedly, but with reppgn- ance, growing out of his coldness. "I'll take you to her.
 THE sharp eyes in the child's ! head, wandering round the room, lighted on the table where the remnants of the dinner were.
 Give me some of thatw he said, covetously.
 Has she not fed you?"
 T shall be hungry again tomor- row, shan't I? Aint I hungry every day?"
 Finding himself released, he bounded at the table like some small animal of prey, and hugging to his breast bread and meat, and his own rags, all together, said: There! Now take me to the woman!"
 As the Chemist, with newborn dislike to touch him, sternly mo- toned him to follow, and was going out of the door, he trembled and stopped.
 ''The gift that I have given, you shall give again, go where you Willl' The Phantoms words were blow ing in the wind, and the wind blew chill upon him.
 "Ill not go there, tonight" he murmured fainly. 'I'n go nowhere tonight. Boy! straight down this long g-arched passage, and past the great dark door into the yard-you will see the fire shining on win dow there"
 'The woman's fire?" inquired the boy.
 He nodded, and the naked feet had sprung away. He came back with his lamp, locked his door hastily. and sat down in his chair. covering his face like one who was frightened at himself.
 For now he was, indeed, alone. Alone. alone.
 
 CHAPTER VI MRS. TETTERBY did not enjoy lvA her supper. There seemed to be something on Mrs. Teterby'S mind