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LEVERITT’S STUDIO,
Postoffice Box No. 362. Opp. Union Depot, VIDALIA, GA.
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FAIRIES
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(Jood-bye, Emily.” >
‘■l'm so worry you me going ^WI
so early.” said Emily. J
"Yes; but I promised mania not
to stop an my way this morning un
til! I was hrough wih he erand on
which she sent me,” replied he chum
Vbut she knows 1 cannot pass by
here without stopping for a mom®n’.
Orainly glad you sopped, for
I’ve been thinking I’d go to see you,
Madge; but I’m trying to get my
sewing through before someone else
comes i n and wants me to make an
article for them.”
“Well. Emily, come over t o s ee me
this a fternoo n and come early, for I
want t 0 tell you a good many things
that happened recently."
“I'll be there about, about one
thirty.”
“I'll sure look for you.”
Emily wa’ched Madge until she
was out of sight. She noticed some
thing looked wrong with the expres
sion of Madge's face, as if she were
in trouble, but they had been chums
for fiv e years and had always told
one another their secrets; and she
wondered why Madge didn’t tell her
this morning', it must be something
terrible.
Emilv went back into her sewing
room and finished the waist she had
started, and then dressed herself be
fore lunch for she was real anxious
to hear the .news that. Madge had to
tell her. Mrs. Eddington, Emily s
mother, came to her door and told
her someone wished to speak to her
she rushed o the ‘phone and learn
ed that n lady wanted her to nt«Ke ..
dress, and wanted to send i* around
tha afternoon. Emily told her she
would make the dress, but said she
had to be off for the afternoon and
asked her to send it the next morn
ing early.
Emily’s father had been dead lor
many years. She and her mother
lived :n a neat little bungalow’ in
the business nart of the town M’s.
Eddington took in boarders and Em
|y was the seamstress of the town
and always had more than she could
ment store. Iler father had been
dead two years. Her mother had
tuberculosis and the doctor said she
couldn't live very much longer.
They were very poor people and did
not have any means of making a
living only by Madge’s work at the
. store. She had her little brothers
and sisters to work for, Joo, and
there were live of them. It was a
liar k^dtruggl® for tha' fa mily o
five While Madge was at the store
her mother did not have the proper
attention, for the children were too
small to eve n wait on ‘he.msav »•
Poor mother was just ng
awav, but Emily did al! she could for
the family. She went and helped
Madge work in the store two weeks.
One of the Clerks was out and Jie
filed his ul»ee. At the end of h
two weeks Emilv was paid foi nW
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time* vw On
Dollars from the cash register.
^Saturday night the money b*d to
Bnmtoa in me we una it was |
^Wind that the one hundred dollars I
•as missing
W They were almost confident that 1
I Emily Eddington took the money I
Ftor shei bought u ready-made dress,.
Uhe jyirhe afternoon and gav e lilW>
and she paid CBSh f <,r it ’
searching t 0 see if they 1
a,I Y 'ff'Make in counting
totßpioney, before 'hey said confi- !
MlFially whether she were the thief ;
mwever, the clerks’ just knew that
It lay between Emily a.nd Madge. '
Anyway the lights were all blown'
out in 'he store and the clerks went J
home. By the next morning the
Pews was al] over town that Emily
Eddington had stolen one hundred!
dollars from the Harris Company’s
Department Store.
Whe n people would meet Emily on
the street they wouldn’t speak to her
and she was looked down on all over 1
town; but she had such a sweet look
ing Innocent face that something
told the story in her expression that
she wasn’t guilty of such a crime. ।
When Madge Smih was out on the
streets she couldn’t look at anyone,
even if they did speak. She would
speak, but would never look into any
one’s face, for she knew she was
guilty of taking the money and
would not confess it so Emily’s name
would not be disgraced.
Mr. Harris and his only so.n own
ed the store. His son wasn’t mar-;
ried. He and Emily were sweet . ,
hearts and engaged to be married ■
at the ’ime the money was stolen.. '
He ami Emily hid a.n eng><e; ment |
for Sunday afternoon and it was fill
ed. They strolled down the side
walk and after a while came to a
small soring boiling up through the
sand. The grass was green on one'
side of the little stream and they sat
down there, and then John Harris
asked her if she took the hundred dol
lavs from the store Saturday n’lght;
but she said she was not going to
tell anything until the trial came off
He' told her that Gioy would not
carry it t o court if she would tell
the truth about it. but she bitterly
refused, and a s it was about dark,
• hey went back t 0 Emily's home.
John didn’t even go any farther than I
th e gate saying that he had a long i
distant’phone message waiting him j
at the office. He told her he would
come back to see he’’ Wednesday
night, if she cared for his company
She told him to come back on that
date, a.nd they said good-bye.
Emily went to see Madge the after
noon before and Madge told Emily
her full intentions for the Saturday j
night before she left the store, and ■
went on to say how many things she I
needed, and she would have to take
the money t 0 Re t along on, as her
mother needed more medicine and
doctor bill was so great until her
small wages were so would not
keep them in going order.' Ennly
promised Madgß she would help m i
bear the blame and help her until j
Just one week from then Madge s j
mother died while she was at her ■
work. She went so far in debt to |
bury her mother that she thought .
she would never pay out, but she,
buried her mother in good style
and everybody sympathized with her .
in her los. i
Now' she couldn’t leave the small
j children at the house awhile while
i sh e ^n' up town to work and she
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mas and
Th,. ■'nildreßßW^Tti^^Hfoke
i were only half clocl^KKfbdJ snow
, lay thick on the gro®s/ time
. went on until ChristdHgm||rMadge
. wjis thinking of som^^KMyget 'ne
children some shoe^HMßbey want
ed to go out in th^^^^HVnil make
snow balls like t|[pj athey children,
< but couldn’t bccau^^^C scarcity
of their elo'hing.Li^bf'?Tncc a new
thought sprang MBhNk mi.nd. Sho
thought of some oW^pither which
her father had used in mending thmr
shoes years ago. She ran into the
i kitchen, elimeu up into the loft and ■
I searched diligently for the leather. 1
At last she found it and it was so
old and not verv sb-mg, as it had
been there s 0 ling. She got a large
pair of scissors took an old pair of
the tiny shoes and cut the leather
to match and sewed -t strong. She
soon had the first pair completed
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and.put them on 'he feet of her five
year old sister. They were awfully
queer looking, but all the children
‘ her ,ask-
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T a’ thev^
A iMmyii' on --
em and cried.
‘iney^all said, "You are such a dear
sister. more shoes.”
W spent Hie evening in making
shoes for the children and other lit
tle things to make them happy. The
next day was Christmas and she put
all the children to bed clean and clean
ed up tlx- shabby old home, for John
Harris had thought her no' guilty
of the crime and he was paying her
a grea* ileal of atervion, and they
had a date for the next afternoon.
Sh" soon had thlno's straight and in
order, then she crept off to her bed
bed in a adark corner and was soon
fast asleep. But she couldn’t sleep
for th' ikink how mean ^he had trea
cd Emily about everything, and at
last it haunted her so that she got
up and slip e d on her dress and shoes
The t1 she sped away across ’he ’own
and was soon ot 'Mrs. Eddington’s
home. She went around to Emily s
room and found her_ sitting by the.
' window. The moon was shining
I bright and Emily had seen Madge
! long before she reached the house.
! She asked Madge what was the trou
i ble, and she said nothing more than
j what had already happened, and
sh e couldn’t sliep So she decided
to run over a(.d see Emily, for she
•H?new she wai not asleep. Tbejy
talked of trfe »oney that Madge hadt
stolen from the store, and Madge
told Emily that she would one day
; make everything as it should be.
John’s name wasn’t mentioned
’ throughout the whole conversation,
nor did Madge tell Emily of their
engagement for 'he next afternoon.
Soon they were through with their,
secrets and Emily told Madge to
hurry home a”d not even think of.
her 'in anything, for it would all
come right before a year. They left
one another and when Madge reach
ed home she fell across the bed and
was soo n fas’ a s leep.
The next morning Madge arose ।
bright and early. She was soon ,
through with ’the inornkig’s work
and then prepared dinner and dress
«■’ the children and herself. John
Madge Smi’h worked in a depart
they went to walk, but didn’t s’av
long, as she couldn’t leave the chil-
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drdn by themselves. When thejt
started down to the little springt
jwwhe e John and Madge had beer, to-T
। everything was over with
' gether-so often, they saw some girl
. down ther . They stopped to see^|
। who it was and saw 'hat itwa -
I ily. Madge wouldn’t go am furthe^B
; they turned and went bar
. couldn’t face Emily with John, aftfr. s |
. she had done as she had, so they
' turned home. Ji
John went home, but on his way*®
! he got to thinking that he real]-,
, Ipved Madge 'he best anyway, but
some how h e couldn't think with a
clear conscience that he did. How
"y.cr, he and Madge continued to be
such good friends, they were to
gether a great deal of the time.
Two weeks later a lawyer went
down t 0 see Madge and the first
thing that he told her was that she
was no longer a poor girl. Whi|t has
happened and what does it me* n'!
It was such a surprise to her that
she almost fainted. Well, the law
yer went on and explained the whole
thing to her and said her father was
once a soldier apd he hadn’t been
geting a pension for twenty-five
years, and he had come to pay it to,
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