Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1930, Page 41

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930. v injured wing and could not fly. So l](:mws howtot.umml" l; !dbylnk and paper. E EVEN STORY It fell helplessly into the sea, and the | It was & supreme tragedy. o o old man saw his only companion drown | me his sad story, I was being affected . in the cruel ocean waters, without being | to n&f.x\e%%] I :nu.\t% no; ?‘:ze ?;llfi;;d ST S R o, in his | Possible. The despair of this old con- § 'vl;fmm']z' i Vitt, as related by Yves, threatened to P; AN D . One of World-Famous Works of Literature i s - | disturb the peace of my slumbers. I f ‘Who would have listened to the prayer | who knew so much of the tragedy of of such & man as he? Could he ever |life, was being saddened by this simple ¢ The 01d Convict. precious possession. The bird had lived | have dared to think the ship migh. | Y57 0% &7, O Tion a0 b SPOEON. RETAIL DEPARTMENT STORE HOURS BY PIERRE LOTIE. T vaion “ATier ‘Soess Gavinld BT M sopid izie) e ncoese i migetiers 8 —_—m M M m = = 9:15 to 6 ‘ sparrow of sn ¢ S i : ship which was to take them to New | tent of securing a little wood, wire and y, watching the sp B | Tt would have been difficult, but it might Bladensburg Road at 15th and H Sts. N.E. 9:30 to 9:30 borne away from him, Caledonia. Among his charge was a|$0 On to make the Uny oage in Which | POl (o onely now, this old man, ter- | have been managed. You could have very old convict of 70 vears at least, 8 ribly lonely—and he would be lonely|done it—you might go aboard the who was taking with him, most ten- m*;c;;ofn":'):‘;smp‘;“b?;‘é‘F“Y What YVes | intll the end of his life, whioh might | transport even tomorrow. to seek out fexly. & sparrow, in & finy cage. | “““Poor sparrow! In its cage was a [IOL be far off. Tears ‘were running | that old man with & bird for him. But i 0 help pass the time, Yves engage wn his cheeks—tears of a despair|I do not even know 3 lece of gray bread, for food. But it e L IR i Sonuict i ot 100k especially criminal | eemed aute nappy. in epite of that.| Ihat colld never be wssuaged. And the | wouldn's peopl think It rther a2 or uper Jervice u but he was chained according to the | It jumped about exactly like any other | 0“0t ‘the short sight, was laughing |odd.” I admitted uncomfortably. But custom, to a much younger man—a man | tame bird. aloud at what he deemed the amusing |I thought with a pleasurable anticipa- ing again near the A v of unpleasant, sneering appearance, and, | Hours later, pass grief of an old prisoner. | tion_of the idea, a kind of warm glow judging from his spectacles, ~near | Old man, Yves spoke to him ety % | Since he no longer had his bird, the | inside of me. \ sighted. ;‘::'1:, A 'mdbfrd";g;e e ’;{skm; old convict did not care to keep the | Avaking the nextxdn,v},‘ t}l\e }amt l{g- vi - - o cage, which had cost him so much | pression was gone. In the light of e - e old convict explained that he was | him to take it and make some use of it. | trouble and on which he had expended | morning, my des, of the night. hefore 8 iormer highwavman, artested for the | Yves told him he would need 1t fo | 5 labor of love, That is why e had | seemed. fantastio, chilgish, ridicuious, fifth or sixth time for robbery. | his little pet and companion. offered it to Yves, for Yves had shown | Anyway, the old man’s grief was not “How can one avoid stealing when he | “No,” said the old man sorrowfully. | friendly attitude toward him, and|one which could be consoled by any L] L = has once begun?” asked the old fellow. | “The sparrow is no longer in his cage. | this cage, the last possession of the old | bird, however beautiful. He was sor- \ “And when there is no other way to|Didn't you know? He is gone.” Tears fellow, was all that he would leave h(--} rowing for a particular bird, the little e rlce o r Inar L] \ earn a living? When people will have |of misery stained the aged fellow's | hind him when at last he left this|ugly sparrow with the broken wing, nothing to do with you? I stole & sack worn cheeks. world. A | whom he had fed on prison bread. It of potatoes—no more—and now they | A lurch of the vessel had thrown the | ~ Yves accepted the legacy sadly, to|was that bird, and that alone, which are sending me away from France, to | door of the cage open, accidentally, and | gratify this last wish of the sorrowing|had awakened in his half-dead, hard- die in a strange land.” the sparrow, frightened, had tried to|old man. It was a moment full of more | ened heart new feelings of tenderness The sparrow was the old man's most ' flutter a But the bird had an|sadness, indeed, than my poor pen to solace him in his declining years. —~AND AlLL THE PLEASURES OF THE OMMAND, WORLD AT YOUR C . 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