A good-natured miner, Jim Stafford, harbored in his house a young couple, who had not met with the best of luck. They had a child. Harry Green, the husband, drank somewhat and gambled and lost. Matters came to that point when both he and ...See moreA good-natured miner, Jim Stafford, harbored in his house a young couple, who had not met with the best of luck. They had a child. Harry Green, the husband, drank somewhat and gambled and lost. Matters came to that point when both he and his wife were penniless. So in Jim's absence they steal his money and by way of payment, they leave their baby. Jim accepts the child. He reared the child until she was of an age to he educated. So when she was rising seven, she was put into a convent. Jim and his associates took leave of her, and the former is left lamenting the loss of his little foster child. Meanwhile, things have gone from bad to worse with Harry Green and his wife. He has become a degenerate and she has to get their bread by washing. Years pass. The child finishes her term in school and is to go home; and home she goes. But the instincts of a mother are strong upon Myrtle Green and she makes her way to Parson Jim's house, and before the girl arrives, confesses to Jim that it was she who left the little baby in his house so many years ago. The struggle is too much for the woman; she dies. When the girl arrives home it is to learn of her mother's death. In company with Parson Jim she visits the grave of the dead woman. The school girl has become a woman and it is obvious that when both learn the truth, lonely Parson Jim finds a future wife in the little waif that years before was entrusted to him. Written by
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