Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

to come to one's home and ruin one's sister. But he was

the halls he came upon the gnarled and leathery old woman who possessed the music box. She was grinning

yer sister and her jude feller came in late, oh, very late. An' she, the dear, she was a-cryin' as if her heart would break, she was. It was deh funnies' t'ing I ever saw. An' right out here by me door she asked him did h

ce, but he turned from the leathery

ed a laugh that was like a prophetic croak. "'Oh

wo and the table, stood uncertainly upon legs. The floor had been newly swept. Too, the blue ribbons had been restored to the curtains, and the lambrequin, with its immense sheaves of

urred glass. It occurred to him to vaguely wonder, for an in

wever, he be

! I brought 'im here!

his anger gradually ris

Dat's what I'll do

d the door. But it opened and his mo

er wid yeh?" exclaimed sh

a sardonic curse and

one teh deh devil

aid his

evil! Are yehs deaf?" ro

," murmured the m

sprang erect and delivered a maddened whirl of oaths. Her son turned to look at her as she reeled and swayed i

othin' but stones and deh dirt in deh street. May she slee

her son. "Take a

d lamenting eyes

Jimmie, me son. Many deh hour I've spent in talk wid dat girl an' tol' her if she ever went on deh streets I'd see her d

n her furrowed face.

was sent teh deh devil by dat feller what worked in

urse, dat Sadie was nice an' all dat-but-see-it ain't dess

d always unconsciously held, that all sisters,

rm. I'll kill 'im! He t'inks he kin scrap, but when he gits me a-chasin' 'im he'l

. As he vanished the mother raised her

se her foreve

rned a knot of women talking volubly. When

't a feller come teh deh house but she'd try teh mash 'im. My Annie says deh shamele

says teh my ol' man, I says, 'Dat Johnson girl ain't straight,' I says. 'Oh, hell,' he says. 'Oh, hell.' 'Dat's all

at dere was somethin' wrong wid da

t a friend. "What deh h

An' I'll t'ump 'im

at's deh use! Yeh'll git pulled in! Every

e t'inks he kin scrap, bu

ted the friend.