Show f lJ bt i j 1 J 0 t I I Sit By I Lai i r I 1 i I If j i rJ 1 E K lu t et t t l i 1 th Th e i M ther v J r Tn iV IWi tf VJ V V t l g l JJ l I I Y YI I J JJ f J 1 SC t i 1 i R I Il l l rg h hI I t 1 e elf lf r A rA k C i t J r tr M l i 1 ii f t r i i I t 1 tc l lI fl J A i 7 f READ REA Dt the tle Member quailed d E when they I Co fairly In II Ule 1 F room Member I Instantly In wilted J cant Ga I Oh shu turn turning lur i ing Iwa from her h l tr t or orI I ih li o sl I lib very C 1 ol of the HI this till Was s hor 11 Il lt round I h nut of i quite clito tlc this hl n in n tho Li first had ne ac aci i tile h position Pl n IH tru leo of the th J f lW had hail lUl I visions of herself i to pallid 1 Jug th i If 1 reading to toi 0 i JId Hut In hi her tl i j i Were I re always alu In clea lit lits s V hate bare Illi waifs H oale and d ll tie old phonic sll t c vor all i ul Conscience 1011 0 t hor had bad awakened d at aty y V ilc reproach a h ofa a busy hUsy friendt frond and anI with l H zen 1 which all al her Int plunged into Illo la lad ivi d llon for tho naked nakedA c A facts fl H C po Now j brought to toJ tok J k face faco wIlI one of o jho tho big s real fj 11 l IC her lC dreamworld I adopted if i from flom and Plo of lt Uj l poverty ert crumbled led about her f V nil t In II its Is gauntest at r liar from flOI this lionie mIl rp m V and pain anil uni silt iK 13 ferins I II their lust In tt and the tho fv ti grim specter of oC death Tin close clo c fetid foUL J A Ili the tho room o to her hor ff lind 1 t he clung il to tho still sti open door t r and covered cO her o QS with wih her hand fC j I t Ia the Capable Member l mbel who alone c io the Acl At i I to the tho 10 rot of tho th moan mean bed bol Ii fihe Ahe surveyed i lo the tho wan mn occupant with 1 1111 l of one who had hal often i met 1 the In just such surround surroundings ings She JHn 01 it Is s there anything nI wn can 7 began and thon stopped do for you yon not It was as vain aln empty X Can k to us us she Iho said sahl ly with i j if lids fluttered lifted Jf L Phel t ia l sho said salL hoarel It I was as tU h first ils sound 4 on the foot fout of or ori i i bed bcd A very figure It was only 11 halt dal with a tiny snub nose l roil with wih cold a thal looked n a to Sl s und and wide wIle vacant 0 At the whisper of o the tho dying the child crept from flom her h r place placed d 7 whorl sho Rho had haL snuggled under one 1 z corner of tho thin quilt and approach HI jig her mother rested lester ono one cold cheek choel il y against t tho white face fc on the tho pillow ji Phella Phela hero here she Rhe wild ld with wih a a queer Phella Phola here hom homr r The Ihl dying woman Jh a conscious held hll her hm lids pen open and looked into thu childs face again she h whispered and ant then added painfully biby i Sympathetic Member heard tho i faint as al it was and cam camu I V from her hll place by hy the tho door Tho ho ma la KIC 11 of or that word would have hae brought i lier hel across aclO S continents Dahy she ho echoed wih her hEI lips yV close clo e to the sick sic womans ear eal earV ealIn V i In reply one wandering hand went well 1 under tho bed coverings Three of hands Instantly aided In le search but It was the thc girl who found what the tho mother ig y J up in an old 01 flannel shirt tucking l sour sOr milk 11 Olt of r a bottle holle then thero ii was revealed a child or was it a n mon jv key y So old and Wizened it II looked I with lh puckered brow blow and un II Hands grasping the tho bottle bote that thaI the three Members Iem shuddered at the un uncanny 11 I canny sight 3 hold held the little lt tl bundle hundlo carefully a with a n curious cl maternal anxiety 3 wih ing JIA into Int her hm vacant cant face fu f Phella the voice of the mother 1 gathered strength as aR she caught sight i of the tho tiny ln creature You ou must nu t be bo Sr to baby ball Phe tend baby bab al Sf You hear me f tend tho baby tho little l Wc 11 echoed and then thell as us the 1 womans Bho sho railed aloud asif as j to tn arrest their thelt closing dosing tend the tho baby hah always al Bul thc th flutter had haci already ceased the tho Id l v r lifted Ced again again Tilts Member b looked calt faint and the older Trustee ordered her hUI out ilio tho carriage com commanded commande mande losing 10 1 no Il breath on in il Vo 0 11 It I to wrap that naked baby aby Glad GItl OCUl o to got ot into the air all tho tw younger woman lied to the tho car carriage and then turned reluctantly back along along the llo dark 1111 passage to tho dreary Midway l her progress was stopped Shrill cries oaths and ald curses cles wore Oe tIed by hy the thc bursting open of or ofa orL a L door at the Hlo of the hall lUl and from frol It I t sprang a man followed by a virago 1110 of of a woman Headlong down the he h came camo thu making a L him and raining rainIng blows from froni a i beer ho bottle on his Ils head hoad the Tho cowered ns ni if to l sink the wall wal but lilt in their fierce night Ight the tho not notice h r but but wont went onion un I rolled f lod into luto the at th edge of the street street The Tho girl g 1 stood root cd ml to tho bythe hy the terror of the Then sudden len a I I thought a mental picture oC tho two waits waifs back there tiel O loft lef to the tho mercies oC f such drunken wretches as lS these stung her hol senses into action With the speed of or desperation she sho flew down the Iho passage pasH o and more mor Into tha chamber ch mO of oC death Herp Her sho thrust the tho carriage robe r e at the tho Tru Wrap Vla It t up lets cot out of this d I e Then TI suddenly nerves norves arid and sensitiveness to the thi winds picked ed up the dirty Ht mite from the tho bed bd whore where It lay beside Us Is dead dl mother with her hor own Hands drey Lre around It the tho heavy robe rohe and at the wiggling tender tenderly ly h led IOL tho way wo to t the waiting carriage cardac little Ophelia left et her hel mothers mothO S bed bedside side sl e without grief only a great groat won wonder dor der growing In her hor o es at beIng lift lifted ed to a scat geat in the tho grand carriage But even oen in the glory glor of of her first sho was restless and amI several little wistful sighs with wih her hel eyes Oos fixed immovably I upon tho Sympathetic Member opposite At laet laRt the sighs Into sobs Oh and she cried out tend the tho baby always s Then the animated bundle was trans transferred silently arms closed I lovingly about it i and Into In o her e M came peace At the tho Homo the motherless Rs namo waifs were welO washed dressed and fed fod and a new lifo Ifo began for both Oth a alife life Jre where hunger was unknown where fresh flesh air ni and sunshine clean olean smells and clean clothes were to bo bohal hafl hal In abundance and cold was only a dread Thing Thin out of o doors The baby hn r thrived 11 and an in ln a few months look Jook looked ed ee I like lilE a IL baboon than a b fat ocd Tap Idea of heaven was a bottle of sweet milk mi followed 11 a nap in the tho arms of or his untiring nurse nure lh II For Fo Ophelia Ophel though thou h touched by h the tho malady of or her hel Illustrious name nume ful of old had yet et the compensating instinct In of maternity In double and triple measure and Ind mothered her wee ee brother with a devotion hardly short of oC divine I And Ald the Sympathetic Member I from I the day Ila when she sho constituted herself guardian In special lal to these e two half witted Ophelia OphelL and the tho Little Jap ap began to learn earn the great lesson losson In Inthe the school of charity that not sympathy thy th alone Is needed ne cL In this greatest gre test oE oC lifes Ife work for she Rhe has lias that who only an a 1 idle ILl tear over oer a I touching paragraph In her hel morning moring paper hut but most necessary of all ul If ono one is 15 to help helpin in tho work of redemption are ao the courage to Hoek ek and the understand 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