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LITTLE JIM.
If^jf'Uking child in, Sally,”
down upon a
that crouched upon the
jj d mature ' blazing fire of u. her little
r before the old,
grate-a boy nine years
ior batless barefoot and wet
j naked, the rain was pouring
the V skin, for the suburban
BOUsiy without and
tag* W..S uiud about and to Boat water. awaj 1
jo a sea >f and
k {must let the child stay, see
-, lew I o. j, do for him
Xud y° UT OWQ mskr T r
Sally, “but it’s my bounden
demonstrate agin it. You’re a
y to Miss Bell, and I’m a wid
lCg’aiut h dv. folkses about
' no men
i we ain’t jest the kind to to take-in me.
SJclja of that class, seems
baby. Sally!” said Miss Bell.
one jest as small as he is,
U was took bl8.ck
a ^1 to boot, that my
dress— one Mis’ VVidder Croker
ffhen she went and married a
line said Sally. “It was as
tmd time,” ripped the oil
;d as new and 1 crape
|nd trimmed it with red velvet, and
U say fur it, it wus scrumptious!
d little gal came beggin, and I up
a to hire her,
l asked Mis’Croker fur
| she did, and fust we sent her for a
rand she off with the dress and my
kcomb and two han’kerch’efs, and
jnuo w bat all. 1 ain’t never been
.rytabie sense, nor I ain t never had
jack silk gowud sense mother, nor 1
,’t expect to. If 1 let that boy stay
he was dried and give him a dinner,
all I’d do, miss.”
>1 know,” said Miss Bell, “it’s what
one would say, Sally; but I’ll tell
what I’ll do. I’ll give you a new
:k silk dress—pattern and lining and
tons and any trimming you like,
| you can choose it for yourself at
Potter’s store—if you’ll just take
,
it child and bathe him and fix him
b some of the boys’ clothes sister
rtha sent me for the church poor.
, and Miss M untie shall make it for
, Sally, and I’ll pay her, if you’ll
f- well, uot—not”
Not interfere, MLss Bell?” said Sally,
ell, 1 won’t J always have said
t Miss Bell wus the liberelest lady
r 1 lived with—and ever so much
eeged, mum.” With that Sally
led upon the urchin, who had been
bd lying before the door face down¬
ed in the mud, and bore him to the
broom, while Miss Bell sat before
| tire and thought over a plan that
J formed itself in her brain some
p beiore.
he was sixty, she was a spinster, she
a nice little fortune of her own,
her married brothers and sisters
chosen to scatter themselves over
world, leaving her to herself for the
t part of the time. They could
ride for their children. Why should
she, standing on the threshold of
age, take to herself an adopted son?
i big black eyes that had looked up
icr had touched her heart. Once,
1 before, such eyes in a far older
d had done that, for she had a love
7, this el • :rly woman who had
fc been a pretty girl; and the tale
| e bbJ o .i void had touched it also.
Fiiiher lost at sea—mammy dead.
koine—nothing to eat. ”
ei .> ontly nothing to wear, from
i tlier Point of view than Flora Me
■Kiev
I * Sildas as if Providence had sent
2 \ ’ said Miss Bell, “and I
■o
[Ik J.she! d adopt him.”
1 boy came down, clean and
r«t in the well patched gray suit in
,ci! ^ ;i -v bad arrayed him, Miss Bell
fight him very pretty. It did not
or to h or. as it did to Sally, that he
rosy for a child that had
-• > ing for. three days, and that
?bP !tjL “ u ’as no more ravenous than
; aa - v healthy hoy of his age. In
_ R.-.Lie she was delighted, and after
n had had a talk with
.':; t watching him as he pored
l.i". ' ” picture book—tio one had
Lj L ‘ fo rea 'l yet—felt, she
as ex
, ‘ ■ herself, “quite like a moth
’ o^ter she had had the child
M , her for
that a week or so, and made
11 she w ‘ ls n °t mistaken, Miss
irt revived ru him i and , that she would legally
He make her will In his
,ld should go to school. She
see that he was properly brought
aud her frieuds might what
? Phased. She should say
>er old have a son
bed age, and would have accorn
a '^° d d oal besides.
iVea w'iff U san to *°°k
'* upon little
e and ^ when avor before she three days
had really
black silk with all that was
had it fitted by Bliss Bell’s
gutter, ■^oaase she of softened this to the
a * turnovers, favor, and
and even
■ to i day ( evening COTT> on after b er kitchen
UOW te do it. teacb
a sn! - I 60 evening; °P a house, miss,”
a . i “and we
‘ a! uily in the church
tl jL- , another.”
l* Wi Z° to school
ew clothes which had
come home Saturday night. There was
quite a flutter in the small household.
A tiny blue necktie graced Miss Bell's
work basket. Sally “did up” several
small collars with great care, and it was
a proof that she had changed her mind
in regard to the boy, that when Miss
Bell said meditatively:
“Sally, 1 mean to give James the
small silver watch 1 had at school my¬
self. But perhaps I'd better keep it
until he has made some improvement
and call it a reward of merit. ”
The handmaiden replied, “Well, just
as you think best, of course, miss; but
if he wears a watch first off it will show
he is somebody, and he'll be tret bet¬
ter.”
So Jim wore the watch in the pocket
of his new suit, and before he went
upon his way was kissed and counseled
as tenderly as though he really had a
mother.
“It made him cry, miss,” said Sally.
“I saw the tears in his eyes, and I'll
own up that 1 was mistook in him.”
The two women watched him out of
sight as he went down the street, but
when school haul's were past they wait¬
ed in vain for his return. Night fell,
and lie was'still among the missing.
The school to which he had been sent
was kept by an old friend of Miss Bell.
To her house, when 8 o’clock struck
without bringing the truant home, Miss
Beil, full of anxiety, made her way, and
to her inquiry received a most unpleas¬
ant answer.
“He never came, my dear. The
watch and the new clothes have been
too great a temptation. It never does
to take children like that to your bosom,
Evelina. I wanted to tell you that.
But when you wish to do a thing, you
will; I know you of old.”
Then Miss Bell went back to her
home, which seemed more lonely than
it had ever been before, and said to
Sally Simpkins:
“Just please don’t talk about it,
Sally. All that can be said has been
said by Maria Pascal!. ”
Two days passed away. Still there
was no news of Jim. Miss Bell ex¬
pected none. All through her life she
had been used by her family as a dread
ful example of what came of trusting
tales of woe and being benevolent to
unworthy objects, ‘and this was her
crowning performance.
“Nomatter,” she said to herself. “No
matter; it is a lesson that will last my
life. 1 deserved it.”
The third day, however, a slow step¬
ping policeman sauntered up the door¬
steps and pulled the bell.
“The asl] barrel again, I suppose,
Sally,” Miss Beg said. “No doubt the
authorities want it set just inside the
parlor door at exactly 5 o’clock in the
morning. I don’t know what other
change they could make. They’ve done
everything else with it.”
“There she is!” he cried. “There’s
the lady! She’ll tell you how good she
was to me. Nobody never was good
before. I had clothes, swell clothes;
she gave ’em to me; and I had a watch;
site gave it to me; and she kissed me,
she did; and 1 love her, 1 do, like she
was my mammy. Don’t believe I’ve
gone back on you, miss; don’t believe
it. I wouldn’t.”
A change swept over Miss Bell’s face
as he spoke. It grew soft and warm
and kindly again.
“I know you wouldn’t, child,” said
she. “No, indeed you wouldn’t! 1
thought you had, but now I know bet¬
ter.” And in her prim poplin and all
her tidy, Quakerlike belongings, she
stooped and kissed poor ragged Jim
very tenderly.
“Madam,” said the grave elderly
gentleman at the desk, “this boy tells a
very curious story. You may tell it
again, Jim.”
“Y T es, sir,” said Jim. “When you
took me in that day, lady, I was put
there by Tom Gillie. I lived along of
him. It was true about mammy and
daddy, but 1 lived along of Tom, and
he put me there so you would take me
in, and I’d open the door and let them
get in at night and take your money.
But it was not the ash barrel that
was in question this time.
‘ What the policeman said was this:
“Morning, ma’am. Do you know a
little chap named Jim? He says you
do. He says you’ve been good to him
—gave him a watch and lots of clothes.
He’s got rid of them if you have. In
fact, he says he lives here. No doubt
it’s all a lie.”
“No^ no!” cried Miss Bell. “It is
true. I—I took him in. 1 intended to
adopt him. I—oh! perhaps I haven’t
been deceived in him, after all. Tell
me quick,” .
“If you kindly step over to the sta
tion in-street, you’ll hear all about
it,” said the officer. “At once, please.”
It took Miss Bell only a few moments
to get ready, and as quickly as the lit
tie cab that Sally called could
her she was at the police station, and
in a few moments Jim, looking very
small indeed among the large police
men, stood before her—Jim, more rag
ged than before, and shoeless again,
but quite undaunted, his eyes blazing,
his fists clinched tight and hard, though
his head was bandaged and his face
bruised and very pale.
They said you kept a great deal in the
house.”
“Well, I haven’t any trust in banks,”
said Miss Bell apologetically.
“1 didn’t want to do it,” Jim went
on, “but 1 thought I had to if Tom
Gillie said to do it. But when you
was so good to me, and gave me
clothes and a watch and all, and said
I was to be your little boy, why, 1
loved you. I wouldn’t have done it
for nothin, and I prayed to God, like
you told me, and thought I’d be took
care of. 1 never had a good word
spoke to me before. Seemed like I’d
got to heaven, arid 1 meant to tell you
some day, but 1 didn’t want to yet,
and I went off to school jest as happy.
But before 1 got there I met Tom Gil
lie. He was watching the house. ‘Oho!’
says he, ‘quite a swell. All the better.
Tonight you must open the kitchen
door. They go to bed early, of course,
At 1 o’clock—you've got a watch to
tell time by now—you let us in.’ ‘No,’
says 1, ‘not then—not ever. I’ve been
•treated good by the lady and I'll not
go ^aok on her, nor the other one, the
servant; sire’s good, too. And God
won’t let you get me back, for the lady
said he’d take care of me if I prayed at
night.’
“Then Tom grabbed me and pulled
me into a dark alley and hit me. When
I came to I was in some of my old
clothes again. I was on a bed and
Tom and Bill was talking about how
they’d break into your kitchen. Bill
would pretend he was the gasman and
so get in and t ake the cellar door off its
hinges jest before dark. So I got up
and began to go down stairs jest as easy,
and Tom saw me and gave me another
clip on the head and pitched me out 6f
the door. 1 came to in the hospital,
and jest as soon as I could think I told
the doctor, and he brought me here to
swear to it all. Oh, dear, good lady,
you will he robbed and maybe mur¬
dered 1 if you don’t believe me! Tom
killed a woman once—I’ve heard him
tell of it.”
“Tom will not have a chance this
time,” said the gentleman at the desk.
“1 have no doubt that the boy’s story
is a true one, and if the burglars come
to your house. Miss Bell, they will have
a warm reception.”
“And my little boy? You will give
him back to me?” said Miss Bell. “He
has been with bad people; but you can
see there is good in him, and I shall do
just as 1 intended if I may have him.”
“At present we will take him back
to the hospital, madam,” said a young
man who had hitherto remained silent.
“He has been very badly hurt indeed,
and needs our care. But if—I mean
when he recovers, I have no doubt”-
“Miss Bell holds the position of his
guardian,” said the grave gentleman at
the desk.
Miss Bell once move kissed the little
fellow, who smiled at Iter fondly.
“I’m just as glad as can be,” he said,
“and I’ll be good—so good, dear lady,
when I’m your little boy again!” And
then the surgeon took him by the hand
and led him away.
That, night the policemen were hid¬
den in the cellar of Jiiss Bell’s pretty
house, and when Bill arid Tom arrived,
instead of sneaking up stairs to rob a
little old lady and murder her if she
objected to it, they walked into the
arms of four of the “finest,” and were
dragged a\v£y to meet their just re¬
ward.
But as for Jim. When good Miss
Bell trotted up the hospital steps next
day, and smilingly asked if she might
see “her little boy,” they told her tear¬
fully that in the night he had lifted his
head from his pillow and said to his
nurse :
“Kiss the dear good lady and tell her
goodby. The woman in white says I
must go where the music is. Hark!
It’s a hymn'’
There was no woman in white that
the nurse could see, nor did she hear
any music; but before she could reach
the child’s side he had dropped back
upon the pillow—dead.—Mary Kyle
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