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The Child of His Enemy.
Baltimore Sun.
The tramp, Blouchlng along the
white, dunty high road, smiled to
himself. He could see the squat
gray tower of the church through
the trees; the other tsiile of that vil
lage was his goal. There, he tola
himself, was the end of his Jouniry.
And bis fate stood behind !)!m as liV
Bald It.
sSpring had come again, and there
was plenty of "bread-and-cheete" on
the hedgerows; the entkius were
forming in places. And there wad
more than a peck of March dust un
der his' feet. But the tramp's
thoughts were not with the blossom
ing earth, and the virtues if a diy
March touched him not.
He was obsessed with one Idea;
that idea had been his companion for
five long years In the filence of hi.s
cell. In the workshop, In the prison
yard, In the quarry. Five years's pen
al servitude with one fixed Idea for
company! And now he was going
to pay back.
When he had reached that house
that was only a stone's throw from
the quaint old gate he would be
revenged. And the smile on the
tramp's face was not good to see,
and the hands, roughened and har
dened with much manual labor,
clenched themselves involuntarily.
ray," he muttered, "aye, to the
Uttermost farthing."
lie fcl.ufvicd on painfully, the dust
clogging his steps. Five years ago he
would have made light of that walk
now he was only capable of mak
ing his enemy pay. And after? Bah!
The tramp has no future. And J"p
Carless had only a past. The village
street was deserted; most of the folks
were Indoors at their midday meal.
He glanced at the small inn with
Its swinging sign "The Merry Mil
lers." Its lone bench In the shelter
ed porch looked Inviting. A drink
would have been welcome, it it
meant losing time and he shuffled on
again.
An evil, Incongruous figure he was
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in that peaceful village, where cri
was almost unknown, save petty
thefts of orchards or occasional
drunken quarrels that Just served tn.
solitary policeman with an excuse to
dratf his pay. But the taint of tne
prison might have been scented tn
the spring air as the tramp passed
through.
He reached the gate, but he did
not glance at the place where "the
place of graves" mocks the unrest of
man, where love and hate sleep cheek
by Jowl. lie turned off up the pretty
winding lane; the bend near a little
wicket gate would take him to his
goal. Directly he would be face (o
face with the man whose evidence it
was that had gained him so severe a
sentence. He spat an oath as a hare
darted across his path.
The lane was not quite deserted for
a child and a kitten were playing in
the white dust. A mite of a girl with
nut-brown curb that nearly touched
the blue ribbon of her sash.
The tramp remembered hair ct
Just that shade, and for a moment
the face of his enemy vanished from
his mental vision to have Its place
taken by a woman's face. He saw )t
now in this pretty rural lane as lie
had seen It a score of times b for;
those live years had made a convict
and a tramp of him. He saw her
fare, half mocking, half tenjer, wi.h
a promise trembling on the shy red
mouth, a promise that was never rati
fied. That, too, was his enemy's do
ing. j And the vision faded, so that Joe
Carless saw only the pretty child and
her kitten right In the center of that
narrow lane.
His ears were quicker than the
r.ilte's; there, round the bend, eame
a motor at full speed. "Road hog!"
thought the man.
Then the child's peril struck hin.
The kitten eluded the mites at
tempt to pick it up. The horn olew,
but the car was not attempting t
slow down; It came on, swooping
down on the child like some modern
car of Juggernaut, and as pltllie.is.
Joe Carless, bound on a death er
rand, Jumped forward In the nick of
Hmo unit snatched the child out or
harm's way; the kitten, with still
eight of Its nine lives to lose, fled In
to safety, but the car caught the
tramp In the side and flung him into
the hedge while It raced on. Its driver
as oblivious and as Indifferent as Its
machinery.
The child, awed and grave beyond
her years, crept up to him: "Tramp
man. are you hurt? I must run and
fetch mummie."
The tramp put out his hand and
touched the soft curls.
"Will you give me a kiss, pet?" tie
asked, his hand closing on the blue
ribbons as a spasm of pain teized
him.
" "Course Lola will." And the
childish lips were placed against his
cheek. Lola! That was her name,
and the curls and the eyes were the
same.
"Now I'll fetch mummie to make
you well."
"Where do you live. Lola?" he
asked- unit from where he lay he
could see a faint pillar of smoke ris
ing from the nouse or nis enemy.
"Ther." And the child pointed
In the direction he knew she would.
Joe Carless still held the blue rib
bon of Lola's sash; he did not want
her to leave him. And the child un
consciously was preachi"-, the
tramp who had come there with hate
in his heart a new evangel.
.Through his mind was running a
'verse that he had not read for many
: a long year out of a Book that ha
i long since ceased to be his guide. It
! had been death he bad meant to meet
I out to his enemy for the wrongs he
had done him. And fate had made
him save a life instead, and Joe Car
jleas knew instictively that the lir
j he had saved was part of the life he
I had meant to take.
"Well, then, I'm glad I '
I he said as he drew the child closer
and kissed her.
I Thin he loosed the ribbon, and
j the tiny girl, gazing at him pityingJy,
went away alter bidding him "Lie;
'good until mummie comes."
j The tramp smiled a twisted smile I
at the old-fashioned mandate. j
"No chance of doing anything j
else," was his cynical comment.
Anyhow, it was better to lie there ;
under the blue vaults of heaven, with j
the budding hedge round him, the,
catkins falling and brushing his face,
emblems of spring better than the i
prison iiiiirmary, where the doctor
had warned him against violent exer-,
tlon. That was after the blow he had !
received In the quarries.
"The end of the journey," he mut
tered as he heard the wicket gat''
eliek behind the child.
Then the blue sky and the green ,
hedgerow faded, and the tramp lay;
still.
He was quite dead when the wo
man he had loved and the man who
had wronged him found him. hut on
the dead face was the smile of one
who has seen a vision.
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