A Touching Story.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 271, 24 March 1894, Page 4

A Touching Story.

Out of the co'uinns of i!;«> Lonid n Etferee the folJowi 1 )-,' ioneliu»» e!on s taken. It is vouched for on ;;e Mtwlion v of the police authorities. In !',(c an > Circus, among a sorry crowd of rovsier ere, a woman attrttcted the attention ot ' » passer by. She was drunk, and her poor tawdry finery was soiled ; yet there was an indefinable something übont her which told that at some time she had been a lady. The passer-by asked Ins c. m panion, who was an inspector of pohc,-, . he knew anything of her. • Yen .-ir," was the reply, "you would not think ii to see her now, but that's the daughter ot old Mr — — , who was once magistr-te at street, Police Court. Fact, sir," h continued, seeing that I was both shocked and Bui priced. " she was once the wife of an officer in the army, but went from bad to worse till she took to the streets." " Did her father know of her life ? " " Oh, yes," was the reply, " but he cm her off long ago. The worst of it was that she often got into trouble in his district at night, and would be charged at his court with disorderly conduct in the morning She didn.t care. The inspectors n*ed to arrange to have her brought before the other magistrate But once a mistake was made, and she came up while old Mr was sitting. He heard the evidence, and, with a tremble in bis voice, he gave her fourteen days." " And did she say nothing to that ? " " Nothing particular. On bearing the sentence she bowed and said, very quiet and lady like: 'Thank you, father, for the four*. tean days.' " The pathos of this is almost heart breaking It is too deep for tears Death is. alter aiJ, one of the least of sorrows. Where in all fiction is there a ptiiMge to match in pathos that " Thank 3 uu, father," from the dock ?

He (olpadinjjty) : •• Would you love aie if I were rich ? " She : " I can't say as to that, but I'd probably marry you."