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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1923)
v ' On Gene -.i noits. Mic hurl OTlHlhirun, tin orphan niuvs aoy, finds n little* lame girl screaming alth fright for fear that .be will he nlaied in an orphanage. tier gruml nother has Just died. Mickey is sytnpu hetie and takes the rhild to llis home end altrmpts to cute for her. Itougias Itruee, n empurutlnn lawyer, laa seen Mickey and wunln to adopt hint is ll s little brother. However, before it can mention the subject. Mickey dis tppt urs. lie tells till of this to Leslie Hinten, his sweetheart, and declares that 1« will find Mirk* y yet. ■Mickey in the ineaotime struggles to fet th nga for Lily Teaches, tile little otme girl. He finds (lint it is impos sible to tell anyone about her for fear hat any stranger will force him to put he child In an orphanage. One woman threatens tills ami Mtrkey leaves her. determined to help no one “ for fear that. In ttie conversation he will t tell :ilu tit the girl. He 1ms hardly gone , a block when n woman fulls and strikes t her head, losing consciousness. He helps i take her to a hospital. Thrre he meets c a nurse, who gives him things fur Teaches • aril instructs hint In how to care for her. . li'dlglas Brace anil Leslie Wintun be. I come i ligated and on the morning fol • lowing their betrothal go to the swamp « to make the basket us agreed. (Continued from Yesterday) • “If he’* made so much of him. it J sort of proves that he wasn’t a gamin. > Some of the hoys are a long shot { closer gentlemen thnn the guys who • are experimenting with them; 'cause J they were born rich and can afford it. • If your friend's going to train his 5 pick-up to be what he is, then that « boy would stand a better chance on his own s de the curb. See? I've been right up against that gentleman with the documents, so I know him. Also her! Gee! 'Tear up de cholld and gimme de papers' was meant for a joke; but I saw that lady and gen tleman do it. See? And she was the prettiest little pink and yellow thing. Lord! I ran see her gasping and blinking now! Makes me sick! If the boy across the hall had seen what I did. he'd run a mile and never stop Gee!" Douglas Bruce stared aghast. Al ,ast he said slowly: “Mickey, you are gett ng mighty close to the very thing i wish to know. If I tell you what I know of James Minturn, will you tell tic what you know and think?" "Sure!’’ said Mickey readily. "I got no reasons for loving him. I wouldn’t convoy a millying to the mint for that gentleman!” "I see," said Douglas Bruce. "Pro ceed.” "Well, 'twas over two years ago.” said Mickey, leaning forward to look Bruce in the eyes. “I hadn't been up against th* game so awful long clone. Twas summer and iny papers were all gone, .and I was tired, so I went over in the park and sat on a seat, just watch ng folks. Pretty soon 'long comes walking a nice la'dy wtih a sweet voice and kind eye«. She sat down close me and says: 'It's a nice day.’ We got chummy-like, when right up at the fountain before us stops as •swell nn automobile ns there is. One of the brown French-govern ess-ladies with the hatchet face got out. and unloaded three kids; two hojs and a girl. She told the kids if they didn't sit on the benches she socked them on hard, and keep their clothes clean so she wouldn't have to wash and dress them aga n that day, she d knock the livers out of them, and i»u.h«d off with the entrance police* man. Soon as she and Bobbie got interested, the kids began sliding off the bench and running around the fountain. The girl was only 'bout two or three, a fat toddly thing, try ing to do what her brothers did. and taking It like the gamest kid you ever saw, when they pushed her off the seat, and tripped her, and 'bused her like a dog. , "Me and the woman were getting madder every minute. ‘Oo tell your I nurse.' Fays she. But the baby thing just glanced where nurse was and k nd of shivered and laughed, and ran on round the fountain, when the big boy stuck his foot out so she fell. Nurste saw and started for her, but she scrambled up and went kiting for the bench, and climbed on It, so nurse told her she'd cut the blood out of her If she did that again, then went hack to her policeman. Soon as she was gone those little devils began coaxing their s ster to get dow’n and run again. At last she began to smile the cunningest and slipped to the walk, then a little farther, and a little farther, all the time laughing and watching the nurse. The big boy, he said: ‘You ain’t nothing but girl! You can’t step on the edge like 1 can and then step hack;' She says: 'C’n too!’ She did to show him, and Just as she d’d she saw thal he was go ng to'push her, then she tried to get back, but he did push, and over she went! Not real in, but her arms In, and her dress front some wet. “She screamed, while the little devil that pushed her grabbed her, pretend ’ng to he pulling her out. Honest he did! Up came nurse JuRt frothing, and In language we couldn't under stand she ripped and raved. She •dragged litt’e pink back, grabbed Iter by the h.rlr and cracked her head two - r three times against the stone! The lady screamed, and so did I, and we both ran at her. The boys just shouted and laughed and the smallest one he up and k eked her while she was down. The policeman walked over laughing, too. but he told nurse that was too rough. Then my lady pitched in. so he told her to tend to her busi ness. that those kids were too tough to live, and deserved all they got. The nurse laughed at her. and went back to the grass with the policeman. The baby lay there on the stones, and never made a sound. She just kind of gasped, and blinked, and lay there, till my lady went almost wild. She went to her and stooped to lift her up when she got awful sick. The policeman said someth ng to the nurse, so she came and dragged the kid away and said, ‘The little pig has gone and eaten too much again, and now I U have to take her home and wash and dress her all over,' then she gave her an aw-ful shake. The police man said she'd better cut that out, because it might have been the bump ing, and she said 'good for her if 'twas.' The driver pulled tip just then and he asked ‘If the brat had been stuffin’ too much again?’ She said, ■yes,’ and the littlest boy he said, ‘she pounded her head on the stone, good.' ard the nurse hit him 'cross the mou.h till she knocked him against the car, and she said, 'Want to try that again? Open your head to say that again, and I'll smash you t6o. Eating too much made her sick.’ She locked at the big boy fierce like so he laughed and said, 'Course eating too much made her sick!' She nodded at him and said, ‘Course! You get two dishes of Ice and two pieces of cake for remembering!' then she loaded them in und they drove away, “My lady was as white as marble and she said. ‘Is there any way to find out who they are?' 1 said, Sure! Half a dozen!’ 'Boy,' she said, 'get their residence for me and I'll give you a dollar.' Ought to seen me fiy. Car was chuffing away waiting to get the traffic cop's sign when to cut In on the avenue. I just took a dodge and hung on to the extra tire under the top where nobody saw me, and when they stopped, I got the house number they went in. Little pink was lying all white and limber yet, and nurse looked worried as she carried her up. She sa'd something fierce to the boys, the big one rang and they went inside. I saw a footman take the girl. I heard nurse begin that ‘eat too much' story, then I cut back to the park. The lady said. Get it?' I said, Sure!' Dead easy.' She said, 'Can you take me?' I said, ‘Glad to!’ "She said, 'That was the dreadfull est sight I ever saw. That child's mother is going to know right now what kind of a nurse she is paying to take care of her children. You come show me.' she said, so we went. " 'Will you come in with me?' she asked when we got there and I said, 'Yes!' ■'Well, we rang and she asked pleas ant to see the lady of the house on a little matter of important business, so pretty soon here comes one of the diinun studded, fashion-paper ladies, ail smiling sweet as honey, and asked what (he business was. My nice lady she said her name was Mrs. John Wil son and her husband was a banker in Plymouth. Illinois, and she was in the city shopping and went to the park to rest and was talking to me, when an automobile let out a nurse, and two boys and a lovely little pink girl, and she give the number and asked, 'was the car and the children hers?’ The dimun-ludy slowly sort of began to freeze over, and when the nice iady got that fnr, she said: 'I have an engagement. Kindly state in a few words what you want.’ "My lady sort of stiffened up and then she said: ‘I saw, this boy here saw, and the park policeman nearest the entrance fountain saw your nurse take your little girl by the hair, and strike her head against the fountain curb three times, because her brother pushed her in. She lay insensible un til 'he car came, and she has Just been carried into your house in that condition.’ “I could see the footman peeking and at that he cut up the stairs. Th? dimun-lady stiffened up and she said: 'So you are one of those meddling, interfering country Jays that come here and try to make us lose our good servants, so you can hire them later. I’ve seen that done before. Luectte is invaluable,' said she, 'and perfectly reliable. Takes all the care of those dreadful little imps from me. Now you cot out of here.’ And she reached for the button. My lady Just sat still and smiled. 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'But I know your kind so I'll go, as it's the only way to get rid of you.’ "Now what do yoq think happened next? Well sir ’bout three mlnutels In walked the footman and salutes, sneering like a cat, and he said: 'Madam’s compliments. She finds her little daughter in perfect condition, sweetly sleeping, and her sons having dinner. She asks you to see how quickly you can leave her residence.' "The woman looked at me so I said: 'It's ull over but burying the kid if it dies; come on, lady, they’d be glad to plant it, and get it out of the way.’ So 1 started and she fol lowed. and just as he let me out the door I handed him this: 'I saw you listen and cut to tell, and I bet you helped put the kid to sle-'pl But you better look out! She gave it to that baby too rough for any use!’ "He started for me, but I flew. When we got on the street, the lady was all used up so she couldn't say anything. She had mo call a taxi to take her to her hotel. I set down her name she gave me, and her house and street number. I cut to a Newsies' di rectory and got the name of the oh net of the palace place and It tvas Mrs. James Mlnturn Next morning com ing down on the cars I was hunting hcadl ners to make up a new call, like 1 always do. and there l saw in big type, 'Mr. and Mrs. James Mlnturn prostrate over the sudden death of their lovely little daughter from poi soning, from an Ice the ate.' I read it every word. Even what the doctors said, and how investigation of the source of the Ice came from wus to be made. "Well I kept a-thlnklng It over. One dyaabout three weeks later, blest if the same car d'dn't stop at the same fountain, and the same nurse got out with the boys and she set them on the same bench and told them the same thing, and then she went Into another palaver with the same p’lieemnn. I looked on pretty much Interested, and before long theeboys got to running again and one tripped the other, and she saw and come run ning. and fetched him a crack like to split his head, and pushed him down still and white, so I sa'd to myself: 'All right for you. Lady tried a lady and got nothing. Here’s where a gen tleman tries a gentleman, and sees what he get t.' 'll marchf 1 into the door just across the hall from you h>ie, and fared Mr James Minturn, mid gave hitn names, and dates, and addresses, even the topper's nnme I’d got; and I told him all I've told you, and considerable more. He wasn l so fiery as the lady, so I told him the whole thing, but he nevef opened his trap. He just sat still and stony, listened till I quit, and finally he heaved a big breath and looked at trie sort of dazed like and he said: "What do you want, boy?’ "That made me red hot so I said: 'I want you to know that I saw the same woman bust one of your boys a good crack, over the head, a few minutes ago.’ "That made him Jump, but he didn't say or do anything, so I got up and went—and—the same woman was in the park with the same hoys yesterday, and they're the biggest lit tle devils there. What's the answer?” “A hennhroken man," said Doug las Bruce. "Now let rne tell you, Mickey.” Then he told Mickey all he knew of James Minturn. "All the same, he ought to be able to do something for his own k ds. 'stead of boys who don't need It half so had," c imjnented Mickey. "Why honest, I don't know one street 'kid no low that he'll kirk a little gill— after she d 1 wn beat up scandalous, for Ills meanness to start on. Honest, 1 don't! 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