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"Quito Alone. 1 hired n little room
over a belter'* .hop on 1’lno street, They
»rc a very decent couple, the halter nnd
2T£Ja£
it them to the " It i»
jm itnnvniinmc. i>iii nicy never n.a<i
thorn. I trick them thin awny. I put
A loom blue thread between the third and
fourth page* of the innr.ii*cri|ita, nnd it
in always there when it come* hack."
Her ro.ee broke a little, hut ehe winked
^low’long'havoyoufjeon hcre?’^
“ How long Iirvc you Tiecn hero?”
« You nro but n child.”
“ I urn twenty. I hnd an article pub- him I l.avo'been here?”
ihcd onco in a Sunday paper,” produc*
"neanwhih',' l!'a'rnw| l 'AherWHrdri.v
Amt HiTmiIjo, wl,0 tfurk to HI Juit Ilk* II Urrh."
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MARCIA.
A II I WO'IH
wno Winter morning « mw vonr* afro
Uio mall brought mo a roll of Ms. (with
one Htamp Icki many, an If to brlb • the
evi-n tiro obscurest of writ.
not a solid grain of Common mmih-.», not a
hint of reality or even of ivomribilllv, in
the whole ol it. The loiter—trtilli in
every word; formal, Irani, practical, and
lire meaning of It a woman's cry for
bread for her, hungry children. Much
woman who writes such a loiter fancies
Hire is lire first, that Its pathos will move
hard-hearted editors, and that the ex
tent ol her need will supply the want of
wit, wisdom, or even grammar in her
cveTv l: LhifuMuaTme"' '''tL ''ilk!"
every i.UDllnhing office. llie siokly
sir. 1
riuLiVraVTss. 11 * "■
1 did not open tl.e letler that d.iv.
When wa mph middle ago wo have
learned, through run nil experience*, how
m*oy Huge,lie* lliere ore in our ..reel or
undorourown rool which will he
The lctter^ft^vover, when I opened It
next morning, pr6ved to 1k> not of a trag
ical sort, 'l ire writer was " not depend-
out on her pen for support;” Hire had
vowed herself to literature;” she "was
resolved to assist in the progress of liu-
' had 1 larrl down
ity ”
was a bit of the fly leaf of
long with the hcIksois, and the name—
Miss Ihrrr written in imitation ol on-
Her hack was to wart l mo when
down, and I had time to read the
hh written all over
r. Tire slou/.v black
in the
Instead of the wtoned feature* of the
"dead heat” which 1 ox|*colod, she
turned on me a child’s lace; an uglv
face, I Miove other women called it,
i’ll 1 the world!° Tier hmwnevi* metT-.Tm.
oagerly, full of a joyous good-fellowship
for everything and everybody alive.
She |miured tint her story, too, in a light-
hearted way, and in the lowest, Iriend
best voice. To see the girl was to he
her ally. " People will do anything for
me -hut publish niv manuscripts,” she
said.
She came (Yon. Mississippi; had Won
the only white child on a’poor plantation
on the hanks of tl.e Van o. “1 have
BWwWMKto.v..
gnveriles*. We hail in, I U nor new*.
papers, except an occasional enpv ,.l a
iiiagaaino Will (o ua hv Irien.l* in the
north." Her mother wn* the one central
timin' in tin. worhl to her then. In on
acwlng lAOll’anock* fur a drill in
t °" to glv, .
“No; not If it were ten instead of
of New Eng"amn»hMdTn 1 u-rUtlo”lx!dy ’
puny creatures ms this take the world by
the throat in that, fashion, they are sure
to conquer It.
Her hooks and |*oeins must, I think,
have nocuic.l uniour In any editor. The
>:r
page. There was, too, in all she said or
wrote an occasional gross indecency, t
as a child might show : her life on
as a child might show; her life on the
platform explained it. Like Juliet, oho
;vcA c «ii*3" Koorl ' <!r
would not bo all
ter at will in the
'Tint in all her
even Hhakspenra’s nurse and Juliet
would not lie allowed nowadays to chat*
at will in the pages of a family n.iiga-
lolwidv. There
of'the usual talk 'of eount-
tiior, larks, oiiiotions of which
she knew nothing. The painted over
and over ngnln her own home on the
**nwio ; the hot still sunshine, the si
nce of noon, the swamp, the slimy liv-
pin the stagnant ponds, tho semi-
tropical
ed in the mind strong and vivid as a des-
cr Vh y o:A3b. r ,hr„°A r c' , i;iSs u ott , v,,.c
to give her—to put away |H*n and ink,
and for three years devote herself to
hard study. She would, of course, have
none or such counsel. Tho iH.pulur be
lief In tho wings of gonitis, which can
carry it over hard work and all such oh-
tolcnt, not for those whose vei
full of the divine Ichor.
uplllftiliwt .... dim would not EtVtt a
shall not stn
ml .tarv.itInn, I remember few things
mure pathetic than tho dump, forlorn lit-
»K 1 ^hK£J Q, 4,S
to toy door through the hiiow* ami
Sometimes alto brought new* wi’thTr
Hie htel work given her—to collect a col-
otimitof joke* for a Sunday paper, by
which *he made three .lolltln. 1 ., week,
lint aim lost It from trying to hiHcrl tier
otvo matter, which coo lit not well he
reckoned n* funny inlying*. (it ay *lm
came Hushed with excitement. Some
body l„„| taken her through the academy
keen, jtt.t eye lor Inrm anil color,nnd the
h'cling of n true art 1*1 lor both.
"That i, what I could have done," »he
"lid. alter keeping alienl a long while.
“Hut what chance had I 1 never even
*aw a picture at home, except those which
were cot out of Illustrated paper*. There
■wined In he no way for me hot to
write.”
It wa* suggested to her that she might
li"d the other even now. I'nhitllig, tie-
SE'ffi.^rn'ila: eZ SK
like her own, it was "one ol the Ihlfat in
the world.“
She did not smile, -'ll is too late,’’
sla- said. “1 will go on as 1 have begun,
lint is a pity my mother ami I had not
knownot such things."
After that her light-hearted cotiraic
jeemetljo K | V| , way. Site presrvrred,
"loton, ami little'loom! r, '“
Hoe day in the spring 1 wa* summoned
... see a visitor or. business. | round a
tall lank young stalking op and
What I* It!”
trilling hit of work by the
rather new the heels of stocking-; hut
the stocking looms have stopper!, and 1
must live a little longer, at any rate. I
think \ have something to say, if the t*o-
plo only would hear it.”
I told her of Biron and his chase for
I went out by the side street. I knew he
was looking tor me." You will not tell
him I have been hero?”
“ But. Murcia, the man seems ho
""'•If he^und me,” in the same q
hack to,the plantation.”
” Anil you are not ready to give up ?”
“NofcT will not give up. I shall get
Into the right groove at last," with the
infectious Jittlo l 9 ugh whic h nobody
quite into thT cotton 1 l.y W this Time, anil
the straw hat had been darned around
the ragged edge, Blit there was a cheap
red rose in it. Her cheek-bones showed
nnd her eyes shone out of black hoi-
” No, I have no cough, nnd I don’t
need medic ine,” she said, irritably, when
questioned. " I have had plenty of of
fers of help. But I’d rather Htenl than
take alma” Khe roto hastily and hot
pci her cloak.
This mao Biron waits only n word
conic to you. lie- h faithful as a
Khe noddod carelessly. Biron, or a
return to her old home, held no part in
her world, it was plain to sec-.
I was out of the city for several
months. A few weeks after my return
I saw in the evening paper one day, in
item headed “ Pitiable Case.- A young
named Burr was arrested on
! theft, and taken to the Central
.huu tele ven o’clock the other wo
men in thcecll whereshe was confined per
ceiving that she lay on a bench breath-
I'.'i’?. tt t !■ .Inn tT-aiTl y'."..'!!!*>' flluVnl" liV""'.’. 11 5
almost extinct. A physician was called
who discovered that' the woman had
swallowed some ihiIsoiiou* drug. With
her first breath of returning consotouv
• • innocent- the
to have been in an
of want. Hut litllu hope
1 of her recovery. Miss
Burr is favorably known, wo believe, ns
writer of some ability foi the daily
r |n spite of the difference of name it
lust he Marcia.
When wo reac hed the Central station
we were told that her discharge was al
ready nroQUtcd. Hho had friends who
knew what Wire* to work. In the outer
hm among adorn. They wore all tnl
loudly, and /.ealously indofense of "little
Marty,” as they railed her, whom they
‘ ired to be a "dunce so far a* head
, hut pure and guileless as a child.”
knew siic was devilishly hard up,"
said one, "blit nover suspected she was
starving. She would not borrow a dol
lar, she lmd that pride in her.”
Marcia was still in the cell, lying on
an iron stretcher. The Mississippinn,
Biron, was with her, kneeling on the
Hour in his shirt sleeves, chafing her
hand. He had taken off his coat to wrap
etc- she can l»e moved,” he whispered,
oka-bore!” turning down the poor
hit of lace and red riMsm at her throat,
‘ big hairv hand shaking. “ Them
s is a’most through the skin!
The doctor says it’s hunger—hun
ger! And I was cat in’ three solid meals
to know or speak to us \
opeued her dull eves.
themselves any furrier about her," said
Biron, savagely. "She’ll come homo to
her own now, thank Hod, and he done
with rubbishy hook-makeis. Mrs. Biron
will live like a lady.”
Two or three weeks later, the most
splendid of hired phaetons stopped at
my door, and Mr. and Mrs Biron sent
up their cards. Mr. Biron was glowing
with happiness. It assorted itself oil' n-
sivelv somehow in the verv
his watch chain and tie of his
" We reli
reckon largely on the effect of her native
air in restorin’ Mrs. Biron to health.”
Marcia was magnificent in silk and
.CM, tlu- costliest that her ownei’s
y could buy. Hur little face was
' Wo leave for the south
sjMits dYor Its entire body. It had a head
lire top of ilaundor ja.v, in ..ire famo
E5S?S"Wi3S
FS'SirSS'iS
that it is a spring feeder, and - that if he
is removed from the well the well will go
Inf;,"! n.i" !hLv'~nor!5li«o P |J, U "*
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