Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1929, Page 40

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €., THURSDAY, MAY 23. 1929 THE EVENING STORY Finders Keepers. work, walked until the pitiful old shoes he wore threatened to fall into pieces on his feet, but everywhere he met the same answer, differently—sometimes kindly—worded but still with unvarying meaning, “No, we have no work for you today.” = ® The toes of the shoes seemed to look up at him pathetically, not in reproof, tut to warn him that they could not hold out much longer. and then one of them, keenly alive to foreign substances. struek against something upon the side- walk. Awestruck Moran looked—looked again and then bent down to pick up an_old-fashioned wallet, a well-filled wal'et. For a moment it seemed like the manna of old—sent down from heaven itself—for a moment only, Joe Moran, who though poverty-stricken to the nth degree was still honest. looked about him to see who might have dropped the purse Literally there wasn't a soul in sight LL day long Joe Moran had| A walked the streets looking for | tuxuries of the rich tn the city were the heritage of every country child. “I don't know what Myrtle's going | to say,” he thought as he neared the tenement where they barely existed. JIYU;L break the news carefully. thoodfl |up at nim like the faces of friends. It |1k feming mighty queer inside myself Was @ veritable king's ransom. Moran's | bernass ¢ ‘ehonld have stopped. and e e ‘;S‘f‘;;wfl‘:‘ bought myself something; ~ but—no cheeks flushed anc s eyes brightene ’ 2 . s he thought of what this money would | L L B e e mean fo his needy family, providing R X there was no marks of Adentincation| et ) s Sy e e e about the wallet. e - b A He went through it again, looking | Jucer lttle bundle of chubby rosiness carefully between all the bills, but ht‘.’.‘assagewa\, between the buildings and found nothing other than the money | Degged to be carried plck-a-back, itself. Ah! TFood! Warmth, romfflf[!]M‘,ru’ his wife, stood in the "" The best doctor for little Betty's sprained | got. (& ™18 i SR phy hnp?}u‘ kle that wasn't mending very Well.| Retty was in the usual place, propped { i S nds | -up in the rikety old morris chair by jive ibeenInithiul ol Srignds | EPHIR \he Sikety’ sldFmotsle jodnit by chokingly. wallet, and no one in sight to claim it I went to the park and looked all 1| through it for identifying marks, but there wasn’t anything but the money, and now we can—-" sure!” old purse. Her husband passed.it to | her, his confidence supreme, the smile still upon his face. bills and laid them between the pages of an old magazine upon the table. Then she turned the wallet inside out | and from a tiny pocket which Moran | had overlooked drew forth a card upon | which was printed, “Milton Crosby, 17 Margate terrace.” he muttered to himself.” looking down : at the worn foot coverings, “ana T'll be | ¢Xtending a welcoming hand. glad to give you a rest. And to think I| “Joe.” his wife began apolgetically, was beginning to doubt that there was | don't know what you're going to say, a God!" | but I—I just had to do it. Betty's| He breathed a silent prayer for for- | ankle pained her so that I had to have giveness and started toward home, C e thinking all the way of the old cot- | 1ar you'd put by toward the rent. | tage far away from the cruel city that | Moran sensed that his patient wife had used them iil. They might be able | Was waiting, dreading to see his face to go back to it now. They had been | Pale, so he gathered all the cReer that | very foolish to leave it, he admitted, but | had been lightening his heart on the the next thought proved the wisdom of | Way home and put it into the one pped. though it had sudde lead. Then his wife's face brightened, | and she said cheerily, “You go right | now and take it to the address, Joe Undoubtedly there'll be a sizy re: X the doctor and I—I gave him the dol-| = o “It's like you, Myrt,” he signed, find some good in everything. “No, but God did," “to SW “I found a wallel it is.” | “Joe Moran, you let me go through | Of | never be so carcle course, we're no poorer than we were, | filled wallet. and if there's a reward, why, we'll be | body Who's just been carrying Mr. that much ahead, no matter how small | Crosby's card. Good night.” She closed the inner door and left As soon as Joe Moran had partaken | him standing there almost too dazed | ers keepers?’ ™ of what little food there was in the | to think. God was house he started out to find Margate | back to his family and tell them joy- ' maid was saying to the butler, “T rec-' s to lose his well- 1 1t must belong to some. | “Irer &1} know it's always ‘losers While at 19 Margate | know it!” good! He could go | terrace a certain sour-faced serving “The master says to tell you he'd | fully that the money would be theirs ognized the old miser's wallet right ‘;s\-ly.tbu}tfllhe minute I saw that poor, > o s | honest thing’s worn-out shoes I knew ‘Well," said Betty, when Moran got | exactly what I was going to do. | home with the good news, “don’t you | once in his life Milton Crosby's given veepers, find- | something to charity, but he doesn't (The End.) (Copyright. 1929.) I—I can't touch a penny until I'm terrace and Milton Crosby. Fortunate- ly, it wasn't so very far. The house | was palatial looking. Moran went to| the rear entrance, knowing that he| would be eyed askance if he rang the | front bell of such an imposing place. His ring was answered by the sourest visaged serving maid he thought he er had seen “I—T'll just keep the wallet until you ask Mr. Crosby if he’s lost one,” he | ventured after he had found that this little family | was, indeed, Mr. Crosby’s home and had heart felt as | stated his errand. | been turned to | The maid asked him into the vesti- bule, but closed the inner door while | she retired to bear his message to the master of the house. Presently she re- | rd."_turned, looking more sour than ever. | Mrs. Moran reached eagerly for the | She took out the | face in the Joe Moran’: Every A BIT O SCREEN-GRID Arwarer Kent RADIO Moran hurried on, turning down a side | their leaving. How much more they broad smile that he gave her. street which led to the park, and there | would appreciate it now! 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