It was one of those low theatres that do so much damage to the like of her ; there was a gambling place one side of it , an eating saloon the other . I was new to the work then , but though I 'd heard about hunger and homelessness often enough , I 'd never had this sort of thing , nor seen that look on a girl 's face . A white , pinched face hers was , with frightened , tired-looking eyes , but so innocent ! She was n't more than sixteen , had been pretty once , I saw , looked sick and starved now , and seemed just the most helpless , hopeless little thing that ever was . '' ` You 'd better come to the Station for to-night , and we 'll see to you to-morrow , ' says I. '' ` Thank you , sir , ' says she , looking as grateful as if I 'd asked her home . I suppose I did speak kind of fatherly . I ai n't ashamed to say I felt so , seeing what a child she was ; nor to own that when she put her little hand in mine , it hurt me to feel how thin and cold it was . We passed the eating-house where the red lights made her face as rosy as it ought to have been ; there was meat and pies in the window , and the poor thing stopped to look . It was too much for her ; off came her shawl , and she said in that coaxing way of hers , -- '' ' I wish you 'd let me stop at the place close by and sell this ; they 'll give a little for it , and I 'll get some supper . I 've had nothing since yesterday morning , and maybe cold is easier to bear than hunger . ' '' ` Have you nothing better than that to sell ? ' I says , not quite sure that she was n't all a humbug , like so many of 'em . She seemed to see that , and looked up at me again with such innocent eyes , I could n't doubt her when she said , shivering with something beside the cold , -- '' ` Nothing but myself . ' Then the tears came , and she laid her head clown on my arm , sobbing , -- ` Keep me ! oh , do keep me safe somewhere ! ' '' Thorn choked here , steadied his voice with a resolute hem ! but could only add one sentence more , -- `` That 's how I found my wife . '' `` Come , do n't stop thar . I told the whole o ' mine , you do the same . Whar did you take her ?
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