Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1894 — Page 11

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CRIPPLE DICK.

"If I ivr ketch yz hve again, be 1his an that. I'll brak ivery bon In yrr v-ejy body! Now gro, an may the curs of Craromel go -wldye!' Ths Toman who FhoutM this was Fout, mlddlo-ag'od and ' had a. double hin. bis ivi arms and a dirty plaid phawl orrxspod over hr breast and tid behind in a knot that looked to b? as hard and stubborn as hrslf. Mrs. Ford, that was th woman's rum?, stood at the tup of th stairs on tli tor floor of a very htgh and very dirty tf-nement with dark halls rising one above th othr In tirs, far rjiore forbiddinpr in appearance than the corridors in tho Tomhs. and into which, on ithr ride, were lone rows of grimy lo-rs, like th entrances to cells in the walls of a fetid prison. Preceding the fierce threat and curse, n old boot, in the l;it ttap;es of dilapidatlon, had been hurled down the stairs at a lad of fourfen. who stood panting nd pal-faced m the lower Ftep. the

( Wt hand holding h. rutch and the right "rlinffin? for Mipport to the rickety banisters. The hoy was dirty and rapged and the pal, pin- hod face, and the look of alarm in th big. brown eyes, gave him an agd jippearanr-c that was out of keeping with bis smooth, thin cheeks and stunted growth, yet then was a certain pathetic Fomething in the phape and expression of th fac that told of superior intelligence, and a heart hunger for sympathy that is often mor cml and burning than the hunger for food, with which this 'j"Mr lad had long been familiar. At his birth. whn his father was a fiirly well-to-do mechanii- and the drink 'habit had not yet brutalized and impoverished him, th child was known ai "Richard Ford." but his memory could not run ba"k to a time when he was not .alWl "Cripple Dick" by his associate. '"ripple Iiok was teas than two years of age when one night his drunken father hurled him from the bed. to the floor and dislocated his hip an injury .from which he never recovered. and which forced him to take to a i rutch snd bear th nani' The boy was jut siv whrn his mother, a good woman, wlio hid vainly tri'd t win back hr husbtud to right living. Pti'l wore out Iit .-.nl iff in caring for thf chili, trav up th" strugclc and was tnken to tho tier's lidd. Vv'ithing less thin a year another mother. th v.niniti wh h-id just snt X'.if poor lad clattering down tho stairs with hi; crutch, wa brought honv. by ilio drunken father: ;md from thai day ci for nearly svr n years every lortnring influence to kill tlio J.wdy allil every lebqij:g influence to blacken tho soul 3ia I been brought to 1mi- on Cripple J'i, k. If he hid had Vs i.f tho dar iii'l n. other's uol.i'- uii'.irc in him tho , y v. ouid ha o de el. ,i..-d into a moral inonäfer. a!i'i wonl-l havr l.-on .eizefl and taken to some institution where th law. with its maehine mo;hod-. wmiM "nae fed pl elothe.1 him tni tri'-d to eilncnte bim. b'tt lwing gentl. nnl uncomplaining. Ii" was allov."ed to suiTer and grow tip n -S I l-V i J ; ( COUld. Tliree months bof, ,re this Cripple JMck's father died at Melleyiie hospital from "alcoholism," 1hrt doctors cgj,!. hi iiejhlHrs in the K-!--ex-st. tenement who had known his habits for ina: y year.-, caie,j tno di.-ease "jim-jams." ir-l W'oi,d-ivd whv he hacl not üied va"-i l.ef..re. 'ruej and seMish though lh" lather was, the 1mv thing to hint and laish-i all his affection on hint, for he was the only living being with whom he coul 1 claim kinship: und so when the rough pine coffin was carried down the dirty tairs and away to the potter's field Crip!- IMck felt as if the hast ray of light had gone out of his life. Since the eighth year h had been selling papers and making enough to have Mipporred himself after a fashion had he been allowed t spend his little earnings for his own huinbh needs, but this has Iiever been the case. From th first the new m up r had been brutally harsh and cnx-l. l.ut the boy was used to this. Kindness n her part would have so surprised him that he would not have known how to take it; but his father's coffin was hardly out f sight liefn-e Mrs. Ford's cteulty was redoubled, and it ended in the scene I l.ave just described. Another man of the same type was coming to take the d'-ad father's place, and even the neighbors poor as himself acknowledged one to the other that "Clippie Ikk had no natural claim on Mrs. Ford." lfort. the woman had tin own the boy out she had cunningly taken from him his last cent, so that as he stood there leaning on his crutch at the foot of the stairs he presented as complete a picture of abject poverty and helplessness as can well be imagined. "ripple Dn k wa, homeless, friendless .md meneyii' ss. His sole property was iiir. crutch and the few ragi that clung to his attenuated frame. Overcome with the thought of his condition, ho limped down to the third hall, midway in the tenement, intending to make his way to ihe street, wh-re a. cold March rain was beating down pitilessly, when overcome by his feelings, he tottered agvinst a doorway and cried as if his heart was breaking. A bushy-headed. fi'Te-1ooking man on the floor of the hall above looked over the banister and shouted down: "Hello, you poy doTvn dere! You shoost stop dem noises pooty tarn gul k f'T eorr,s r1d down lint make a het n you' ay, yv, hears vot I sav, don'd it?" Th boy did hear and tried to smother bis sobs in his ragged nat. but this did not suit tlv man looking over the rail. "Holt oop!" he shouted, with another fath. "I goorn down rid avay, dn you baf good reason for dat noise, now vou ee" The boy pulled on his hat and grasped his crutch, for man was coming down the stairs with anger and an oath in each heavy step, when the door against .which crippled Dick had been leaning opened, and he heard a. voice that sounded like music saying behind him: , "Poor boy. he lias sore trooble. Com -in. I vil spik vis you." These sympathetic words were addressed to Cripple Dick. Rut suddenly the sweet voie changed Into tones of njfer and defiance, and a. lithe figure darted past him and interposed betw-eri bim ar.d the man who had come down from th ball a.bove, with blood In his eyes atid the odor of schnapps on hi.i breath. "Wat! you gr rait be,jt! You sail not dare to hurt zees oor boy!" "Den, he moos stop dem tani noises!" growled the man. evidently alarmed by the b.r1ng of the slender little blackeyed Frenchwoman, who confronted him. Cripple Tick could ny.r explain to hlnrwdf just how It happened, but h5 retained an indistinct recollection of hearing the heavy steps retreating up stairs, and of feeling a light, firm hand on his left arm and of being gently forced Into a room, the door of which was quickly closed and locked behind him. It seemed as if he had been transferred on the instant into a new and beautiful world. The room from which be had been driven was filthy and cheerless, and its rusty stove and a few bits of broken furniture made it more desolate than if it were empty. Hut this room had a carpet on it, so light and fresh-looking that he rrouehed back against the wall, as if fearful of staining It with his one torn jhoe. The furniture, to mu his own language, "lookt ez if it had Jes come out de tinefU store on de Kowry." A few geraniums and carnations bloomed in rots on the window, above which a golden canary rung for dar life in a golden cage. There was yet another room sepe. rated from this by a strip of yellow siU, by way of a. portiere, that looked far

grander to Cripple Dick than the drop curtain which he had -nee- seen from the gallery of a cheap Bowery theater. Near this door was a little table with bits of color scattered over it. halfformed flowers, which the young woman had been at work on: but to the boy they were genuine blooms, and if he had ever heard of the goddess Flora he must hav believed himself in her presence. When his senses returned and lie could look through his swollen eyes at hi rescuer, he saw a neat, modest lv attired woman of lx and twenty, but the angls of which he had heard the str?et missionaries tell could not be more beautiful to Cripple Dick. Indeed, he was quite willing to believe that she was one, for both she and her surroundings seerned entirely out of place iit the swarming Essex street hiv. "Vou veel plez to sit down, poor boy; I veel spik to you. Ah. nat f"ü nin ange. my leetle son. Yo'i vaii." "The guardian angel darted vnder the golden curtain and into the other room, attracted thereto by the clapping of tiny palms and a child's musical laughter. Soon she emerged bearing in her arms a golden-haired chubby boy of seme eighteen months, and Cripple Dick recalled a picture he had reen in a Chat-ham-st. window of a woman with a child in her arms, and halos about the head of each, and the legend below in big letters. "Madonna." The child had evidently just waked up. for he yawned and dug his little fists into his eyes, and then, catchin! fight of the stranger, he clung clo3?r to his mother. Setting the child on the ground ard leading him by the hand ove- to Dick, the young woman smiled sweetly ar.d said: "I sail myself introduce. I am Mmc. Herta nd. and zees ees my leetle son, mon chore Iuis. war. I call Loo-loo." and she stooped and lovingly kissed the child. Then, looking more like the angel than ever, she asked: "And ze name of my friend, of you wat eez zat?'' "Dey calls me Cripple Dick," replied the boy. "Ah! ("Iieepel Deck? Oreepel Deek. I shall not forget. Ton do not look appe. Xow you tell m all of yourself, wile I mek ye dlnaire." said Mme. Hertrand. as she daintily pushed back her sleeves, and with a magrie shako ?et the little polished stove a roaring in most cheery wa y. Cripple Dick was not ready of speech nor good at narrative, and even if he had been he would have found it difficult to give off-hand the bald, sad storv of his life. But when he halted the good angel would stop in her work of getting dinner and kissing little Louis, help him thvough with a sympathetic question, so tint by the time the little table was set and the boy's mouth was watering with the odor of tea. omelette and chops, not to mention the rolls which she had dampened and set in the oven, she was in possession r.f his biography. "N'o. ma'am. I ain't fit for ir." said Dick, with a glanee at his hands and clothes when she asked him to take a seat at the table. "Oh. I sail not se zat poor Greepel Pick." she said, and with another angelic smile she led him over to the dainty whlie spread board. Hungry the boy certainly was, but the splendor of his surroundings somewhat impaired his appetite. When he had finished he Ignored the white napkin beside his plate; indeed, he did not understand its use, and would have regarded it as sacrilege to touch it. He picked tip his hat and crutch from the floor, wiped Ids lirs on his ragsred coat sleeve, said "Thanks you, ma'am." with a full heart and was about to leave when she laid her hand on his arm and asked : "Were s'all you go. Greepel Dick?" "I don" jes' know," said the hoy vaguely. "You have got no friends'.'" "No" m." with a sad shake of the head. "And no mo-nee." "Xo'm," with an upward glance. "She went true me for de las' cent I hed 'bout me clothes. I'm dead broke." "It eez near ze night. Yon wait and T s'all think." said Mine. IJcrtrand, and she tapped her forehad in a pretty way and made Dick resume his seat. And that was the beginning of Cripple Dick's brief story in an earthly paradise. Mme. Bertrand screened off a corner and made him a bed in it. and there he slept that night after romping on the floor with the child, while the guardian angel's deft tinge: 3 were busy with the artificial flowers. The next morning she left Dick In charge of the child and the apartments, and went off; with a basket of flowers which the boy believed to be the genuine thing, even to the odor. When she came rack she carried a bundle of boys' doMiing. but tiey Jit Dick to perfection. And wh'r he had washed, under her directions, and .put on th- new attire, which she had bcügcd from her patrons, he le't that he had never looked so well in his life, and if his happiness had any drawback ;:. was that the boy, when thev saw him -n the street would "Jolly" him and vill him "de Essex street dude." Mm. Hertrand's husnand, chiff Mward of a French stam--r. had been sick in China for nearly ;t year, and this forced her, a stranger in America, to work for the support of horgolf and chf.d. 'iiut of late she had good news, and he was soon coming back n another MCamer, to take her home to France. All this she told Dick, and in older to save his feelings, -,"or ütran ,'ely enough, the boy was sensitive, she took him into her employ, and he curried her completed work to the Fourteenth-sr. store for her, and' brought back the rjw materijl for flowers, in the shape of scrap manycolored silk and colls of deiiar wire. After a week of this hea .-en, ibirirg which Dick had never s-t eyes on Mis. Ford. Mme. Uertrand said to him one night: "I sail malt-all ze monee I can befo mon Louis he come back. Kef you haf no fear I sail tak ze plaz in ze choru at ze opera at night. Wat you say, eh?" Cripple Dick understood her. She wished to increase her revenue by accepting an offer to sing in the chorus o an ojora then leing performed at the Academy of Music, and she wanted him to take charge of Ix-loo in her absence. Do it? Of course he could do it. If he could help her or add to her happiness by letting her dance on his lxidy while she sang he would have been more than eager to have her do so. They soon came to an understanding:. Accustomed to privation all his own life, the boy gave no thought to the terrible drain the guardian angel was forcing on her energies by making flowers all day and singing at night, and that she might prove to the. Joved husband wlirn . he came that she had not wanted in his absence. Even. if she Jiad gone without sleep Dick would have thought it another angelic attribute and so quite the thing for such a superior being to do. Mme. Uertrand was the . boy's Idol. The first feeling of worship that ever entered his heart wa for her. And as for Loo-loo. well. Cripple Dick loved the child. All the restrained sympathies and affections of his natural kindly heart were unloosed and poured out in a ceaseless warm flood on that lovely child. It was the latter .part of May, and the concerts that had followed the opera were to cese this night. When Mme. Uertrand went out., that evening she looked more like an angel than ever to Cripple Dick, for she had that day received news that her husband's ship might be in at any hour, and the excitement brought fresh color to her cheeks and a happier light to her fine black eyes. She did not leave until Loo-loo had been kissed to sleep. "I sail be home more early tonight," she said, as she gave Dick her hand. - "Early or late," he responed. "yous ken Jes bet I'll keer for da kid." And Mme. Bertrand, quite content and happy in ignorance of e?an side .lang, went awav. Cripple Dick lay down on the floor near

the door of the room In which the child slept. Tb lamp was turned low. and the drowsiness of spring was In the air. The boy was determined to keep wid awake, but Inore resolute people have gone to sleep In less conducive surroundings. How long he had been asleop h did not know never knew, but he was aroused by the clanging of bells. th shrill tooting of steam whistles and the aulck, hoarse shouts of men and the shrill, piteous screams of women an J children. Crippl Dick sat up and rubbed hi eyes. The lamp had gone out.. Yet., a fierce glare came through the transom and the smoke and hat stifled him. He sprang up. seizing his crutch, and flew to the window. The tenement wai on fire. Tongues of flame were leaping from every window along the wall. The streets were crowded with firemen and police, and on either side was a great sea of pale, upturned fac?s. At a point to the right the firemen were carrying down women and children who were drawn from the flaming windows. Cripple Dick looked into the hall, then seeing and hearing the furnace roar above and below he quickly closed the door and dashed back to the window. "Help! help!" he shouted. "Dere's a kid up here as 'has got to be saved! Help! Help! For Godamighty's sake, save Loo-loo. or it'll kill her!" A roar from the crowd told that )i was seen. The firemen, taking down the ladders, shouted: "Hold up!" and hurried to place them where Cripple' Dick hid appeared. He threw away his crutch, for it impeded him, and bounded into the room where the child still slept, unmindful of the smoke and eric? ar.d stifling hot air. With the presence of mind wonderful under the circumstances. Cripple Dick wrapped the child in a blanket and quilt, taking care that not an inch of the dear form was exposed. A smothered cry came from inside tho roll which Dick took up in his arms. "Don't cry. Loo-loo: Dick's tak' ye to mommer," said the boy, soothingly, as with the bundle in his arms he hopped to the window. By the time he had reached therre the top of a ladder tame to view, an 1 just below stood a man wish his whiskers burned off and his blistered hand upraised. "Be sure and reich him! It's Loo-loo! For God's sake don't let th ! id fell!' shouted Cripple Eick as he reached down the bundle. The fireman took it and asked as he started back: "Can you reach the ladder, boy?" "Yes. yes! Go on! For God Alnuhtv's sake, save him! I'm only Cripple Dick! Never mind me!" IJy this time the flames roared into the room and darted toward the window, where the boy now stood irresolutely. He looked back for an insrnm, then seized the hot, topmost rung of the l .dder and swung out. He saw the fireman safely at the bottom with the bundle, he heard the piteous cries iif the people, as, with his cue helping leg, he swung himself down .by his hands. . . Tongues of fli. me leaped out at him. His hands were burned to the bone. The water splashing alout him was turned into suffocating steam. His sight was gone. His hold relaxed, and in mangled heap Cripple Dick fell at the foot of the ladder. He was taken to the nearest hospital, and the doctors wondered that he lived to be examined. Yet he survived till morning. The gray lawn was breaking over the city when the attendants led Mme. Jleril .i it-r nu-o a, i .. .vol' ti Cripple Dick lay. with a damp cloth ovr his sightless eyes. He recognized th' dear voice, anil asked: "How's Loo-loo?" "Safe," came the answer with a sob. "Well, ef dem firemen hedn't a saved dat kil, dey wouldn't a been no good. I I ken sleep better, known' dat." Cripple Dick's eyes being already closed he sank into eternal rest. Thu World.

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