Show 4 the ch ciori 0 ri I 1 sar stor ot of westminster W abbey it wits was upon one of the dreariest drea riest days of till unusually cold winter in london that tile the lovely lady grace darrington D Darring top LI herale he heri ralf eLf in in costly ilir fui Q all anil the wl ward rat fire burning brightly in ili her cozy kitling atlin room went out into tile the fo fog I 1 walkill walking i at it fl a L quick pace along piccadilly to regent street sh she turned toward the elie duke of yorks column and tile the long llight flight of 0 steps beyond site she sk skirted irtel S st james park and soon came in sl sight i of one of tin it most bea beatini titi ful and impressive group of buildings ings in the world tile the houses or of I 1 gr t and Wes westminster isaic r alibey abbey alii abi b y lian that hat venerable ol oli old I S stane t pile lee kin kingi ga ind ilia queens have been c crowned rown til in in lilt tile the pomp and maje majesty sty of power monarchs moua have been brought to trial and condei conde nned to i ignominious deith death and where 1 heads once ill all powerful now lie crumbled into dust lowliest of their 51 subi b e ecta 6 4 v i I 1 1 I 1 passing i under tinder a 1 stone flonc arch the I 1 lady dy crossed denn dean i s yard and continuing coni colli chium contla on through ou ii a narrow OW gateways gateway found herself lei pelf in one of tile the pool poorest est and most miserable of the london districts and e bets ti here within it a st stones olics of the lordly dla cathedral she had just just left were wretched wood wooden hovels not worth worthy tue tile pani nain cof houses where bottian beings illers more wretched elied still were cro crowded w ded together in ili the most abject poverty and some idol boung ing children played in the dirty streets or fought ech each other with sturdy aurdy fists and language in shocking ta to tho tha 1 bady ady Gr graces graceda aceta ca cars rn the rile for fog 0 had bad thickened and it was n almost 11 dark when she pushed aside a 1 halt oleu door of a high rickety tenement building wel wells Is mrs Mr irshay sHay atay 3 you 0 it see sec I 1 do not forgot forget you was her cheery grec greeting tilla its as i faded ademy woman came toward her hushing T a crying child who clung citing to her ber skirt kirt anoy NOT my my lady ladli I 1 felt suie sole you would come although although c the fog and the cold is so bal bad im sure i its ts I 1 very i cry goodof yo your tit ladys ladyship bili to to take so 1111 mud ch trouble for the likes of I 1 me ille can call you let us have a little I 1 light ight mrs itay atay the days are so short now and the fo fog 7 so thick we shall never be a able ble to see what we are about tell me how holy you vou have been ava ardrow bow tj the ie baba baby is V dying I 1 think my iad lady lie he is that bud bad I 1 feel sure lie will never last the ili night 1 t e ai there here is avillie willie si singing 1 g to him it s all that kee keeps ll 11 him 1 M let poor lamb the ae 1 lady I 1 listened isten ell ns As irom front the lie t next cramped partition culled called by courtesy a roum came the sweet cleat clear tones of a boys voice singing with strange pathos the words af of a I 1 popular street to which his music music brought tenderness tenderness and lid beauty it m was as a curious scene the fast closing darkness was dimly lighted by a tallow dip held by tb the faded woman meanly and poorly dressed whose careworn care worn countenance was in strong 0 contrast to the bright li listening expression of the beautiful ladygrace lady grace clad in her ter warm rich fursa furs a few coals 1 gave aal out a faint light which played u upon on tile the face ol 01 of t the most child who was quiet now e gazing abing with ith wide open eyes at the lie visitor 1 c everything very thing was poor and iii miserable mib iscra erable ble save the bright presence of the lie lad yand the pure young 0 voice as it sang to the daving babe aho vho is willie you never told m ne e you it had another boy W no 0 toy my ady and he istatt is not my boy he only lives I 1 attile at the top of the house his father was a bricklayer who was killed by falling from a 8 scaffolding oaf folding c and his bis mother lied died aist worn out so lies hes alone the sweet v voice ol 01 cc sang 1111 on as in ili droning tones tonea tj hie ie wo woman I 1 nan told the boys bays pitiful A atory 9 ry mid and A 1 tear dimmed the ladys lye rye as she listened 1 I ifill go alq see the baby per wo we can call do something for him yet t saying which lady grace went into the inner room tile the si singing i coa ceased aed ani tle sick child gave I 1 aa a of feeble f eli e wail of pain then the boy 11 willie illi e wis was sent for milk oil and bread and nil sundry other things whilst the lady herbele took the p poor little watch form and husha dictor the to baby tenderly us is though it had been her own cown rosy rosy laughing boy at lic home me por for near nearly lav in an hour slie remained in this comfortless abode of poverty cli cheering cering the weary mother and giving food to the little ans then with a promise to conic come again slie she took look the boy willio willie with her through the chill cold streets street where the lamplight lamp light blinked through tile yellow fog fag and before reaching deans dans baid site she knew ill all I 1 lis liis simple story how alone in ill the wor world I 1 lie le toiled foiled and worked that lie net might livo live hoo lio nestly eAly and andhor how lie he langto all to the children ato to keeff ale he C cold old 1 out and biake m ike them thein forget 11 how ow hungry they were adaui 0 aan in t lie darkness icara tears 16 listened tencil in lady graces eyes aull ind bidding 0 tile the boy tu U follow lier her bhe led the lie way to the lower door at the entrance ot of the cloisters and knocking naked asked if the dean was home lady orate grue derrington darrington was waa a gi great ea t wit with I 1 tile idear dear old man who at the time 1 write of iva catlie the honored denn dealt of westminster I 1 but who now low 11 lien lit tile the at still sleep c of death beneath tl alie I 1 e stones of henry VI 1 3 chapel in ill the grand old ab baie loved so dearly and so 60 we well 11 leaving to those who mourn liis his IO loss qi that rarest of gift 1 the record of 0 a good and noble life it tile hoy boy wiilie forgot lite hie colt calil of ins is cht N ji Us reviving e warmth of 0 tile tho deal deaia kiloh ell cn where lie he revelled bevelled revel led in ill a supper such as in ili the ibe course of liis his short life of grinding pherty he hail had never of the be helpful woman elioso chos 0 own lines lit in lif lifo laiu ocen been clil 1 only y in ili pleasant places cs was admitted to tho deans study where in ili a few rapid eiena boeg alp s told loin of lie I 1 attic wait she hail had found aln gln lit tile aliouse awl ami in ili shorter lim liliu thin iban it il lukus to nii te tuil it the choirmaster of tile was bollt bant for aj to try tile llie 0 o v s voice tile followill following f lie found it it to bo be ah good as laly grace thought it lite claim would bo be 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 mr bartido Bart Bar todo didel liea choir loir master was waa not very I 1 over ali alio llio 0 boy when lie hemill that tic lie had been picked up tip in air that thai mot most unsavory locality not bein being A i part par t with him jaia leal experience or of choir boys moreover hail had not maliq taught him to look apon them as litlie angels in however lovely their voices may prove to be and lie he was vis still in ill a state ot of irritation and annoyance V aluc caused iv bv tile fact that his I 1 nast promising singer the one with whom lie had find spared no pains and for whom hom lie holl had for formed me k I 1 tho the very highest lopes hopes had A c cooly 0 run away t ioco the wry morning of tile the day alien a a special at service was to be held anil and in ili abill lie he was to take tile principal solo parts tho the printed programmed pro grammes had to lie be hastily altered and ordinary cordin try chants and 1 anthems cIs sung instead of elie selected arrangement arran gemen t so carefully chosen and nil every part of the musical service had been disarranged and 1 I spoiled by tho the ungrateful ungrateful I 1 conduct collIn ct of a boy possessing pos liessi 11 ll art ali innocent baby bab y face fa c c and a perfectly pe angelic ap 0 elie voice hut lady grace had her way the little waif front from tufton street was comfortably clothed and cared for as a etoir boy of hie elie abbey and till his bis lovely voice and quiet juiet c steady conduct won wo n even mr barton it art on to nil an interest in his allure and now life began bebau c anew for wllie who lit in liis 1119 little litti e surplice walked daiev in procession with tile the robed choristers cho of the grand c athe dial sometimes in the r morning por ning I 1 when lien the elie sunshine throw long of li light all along tile the marbled pavements and touched with willi its lapiant beams the heads of tho the marble poets and heroes already crowned with willi earl early glory lot and again when the falling western gestern sun situ came in ill mellow 7 tints through ii tho elie glass will windows and the solemn tones tones of the organ pealed through the dim and shadowy aisles ni as the pui pure v sweet notes of the bovos picc bojec floated up lip through I 1 tile the fretted archways arch ways until it 4 lied died softly away in the lite distance beyond the rile child loved his work and lid did atwell it well whilst ins his was a 1 bus busy y little life u with tit not much to cull call llis liis own et lie i borgot ot 1 11 C lit little tie colic onesin sil I 1 I 1 old housch uses and finoro than llian once when lien lady grace wa was 3 on oil tier her missions of loi ioe c to the poor site she found her young young singing to some fretful babe or litts hushing hin 0 the mo tiding of a sick arid and hungry child with ith tile iho sweet music lie had learned at the elie abbey many people heard boy chorister I 1 and strangers 0 came to lo listen to tile the marvellous marcellous marv ellous voice width which secil seemed led to in grow orrow more beautiful every day mr barton was proud of the rapid progress made by his pupil willist whilst lady grace was very pleased to think that site she it was who volio had bad this wonderful singing bird whose w 10 I 1 so fame was spreading Pr cading 0 through the great london town TI the le boy boys s devotion bev fotion to he lovely laly lady who ilio had brought brou allt him nil all this thic new aud and beautiful life was I 1 cry deep and a lid sincere sin lie longed IOD 0 cd with all liis his grateful little heart to do so el for her and when lie he heard at christmastide christmastime Christma that lier own aoun oung c son hid been taken ill wrapped aped himself carefully care fully in ili the warm comforter which had been given him to protect that valuable v it ilia singing throat of his and walked through 11 the eold cold snowy streets to the handsome house in be belgrade rade square where lady grace liick and w N lien tile the powdered footman answered his timid knock llie lite child shyly asked him to tell her ladyship that the llie it at westminister West minister nister abbey slie site would know which one hail had C come 0 me to ec cc if ile he mi might in lit sin sing 0 to the llie baby aud lie he lid did sing to the little rich child lying lit in its ir S white cot in ill tile the warm cheerful nursery just as lie ike had still sung 0 to the djin ding babe upon a heap of ra ras rags s in ili the lite dreary building in whilst 7 the elie little one smiled and cooed coded tit at liim him before I 1 it t fell fel I 1 into a refreshing ref refreshing sleep the new year was almost come and choir mast ermade made the boys work hard in iii practicing tile tho hymns arid and chants aud and anthems for the alic xe ew v year service demce was chosen to sin sing in all the solos for none of the other boys hall hail such a lovely voice is as his ani and lay day afla day the little letlow would sa stand axin in tho dio 0 glorious abbey whilst his voice floated pure and true tile pillared aisles and beneath tile the a gothic arches the only sound in ili bilat vail pili edifice fec save the softened organ accompaniment the ille childs hp heart swelled as alic i music rose higher I 1 and lil higher 0 seeming tt it pierce the arched roof lood and reach up lip to elg god in heaven whose praises lie ho sang al now new years eo cio now and ivil willie ie came a again aln to tho house in belgrave square tills this time to leave for lady grace a ton fiig lie ho himself had made and which mr fr barton had written out for him A roll of carpet was stretched down the steps to the carriage which waited wailed before the door nud that tha t hil beautiful lip dutiful lady is as lie called tier her was iv a s going out bac lady grace vas as wrapped lit in a long white while cloak quite covering her rich el aniu on dress and tile boy thought thoc it nothing bothin on oil earth car tit could be so beautiful is AS she was the lovely ively woman who load changed alati aall nil all liis his life making it table and happy what could a little Olor liler liter do to provo that lie ile thanked and blessed ble sAed tier her for tier her goodness ii ns to him the thought had hardly passed through ili his s mind when a 1 horse and carria carriage r 0 dashed into the square front from a tide rildo street lady graces brougham r was just in ili front j in a moment iho elio runaway might strike tier her car tia tiac ariage c or fri frighten liten tier her horse and then the ito boy did not lot hesitate ile r instant ini NI but hing I 1 tho 1116 booso 10 60 hanging rein lie pulled with lilt all it his is childish strength it w wan is a sli slight 0 lit check to the frightened animal stopping it just u 1 jolla ions clio croush uIt 0 to it amill il cil 1 i to vow to tho brys assistance si tit and id seize tile the horses elieud but in ill tile llie cou confusion fusion the child himself fell and was tram trampled upon by tho 11 kicking ching 1 snuggling sniggling Snig tru 0 O isug gling bi mito uto lady 0 grace arco was safe but bill tile boy iva was dead inside ilk his cup cap was written I willie Villie chorister of wc ibbey abbey and in so to PIO 10 gisolf in ill alic abbey abbay yard they bore llie ilia little mangled form NO 0 o solos were sting it at 1 1 I 1 0 pit pure re young voice should linvs filled tile old cilar dral from froin marble floor to vaulted roof but who can call say SAT that tile the little ciori ater till did iio cliant his bi new year 1 acor with A 1 purer it holier bollei choir lit in heaven ilaw ua pers young fy Pv ciple |