Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1921, Page 7

& Copyright, 1981, Copyright, 1981, i (Continued from Yesterday’s Star.) And it had been dene so quickly! he guard had been there and had intervened, and there hadn't been time' fpr his ‘mind to win back Its 20rmal poise’ ‘and reason logically. }fo hadn't reasoned in that brief in Stant; he had only caught and grasped the. outflung hand of one whom, for two ‘years, he had trusted and be- xhastly. blight faling upon him, rea- roned thep; he had even stepped out of th& prison: library more light- hearfedthan he had been almost from the moment - they had put those striped clothes upon him five years before; but he had barely stood locked in his cell here again when, like some phastly blight falling upon him, rea- son had come and left him a draggled weakling, scarcely able physically to stand upon his feet. And then that had passed, and he had been pos- ssed of an insensate fury that had de him-fling himself at the cell or and, with superhuman strength, wrench and tear the birs asunder at he might get at Millman again. > had checked that impulse amidst jeers and mockeries of impish ~voices that rang in his ears and filled the cell with their insane jabberings -—voices that laughed in hellish glee 2t him for being a fool in the first place, and for his utter impotence in tha second. ey were. jeering and chuckling hose insane demon voices! swung from the center of the 1, and flung himself down en the cot again. They might well mock at him, those voices. For two years, though he had faith in Millman, he had kept the secret of the hiding place of that money to himself be- use, believing Millman to be &n nest man, it would have been un- to Millman to have told him, ce,. 98, honest man, Millman then uld en'fi‘" have had to inform the thorities—or become a dishonest . It was clear enough, wasn't it? d logical enough? And yet in one guarded moment he had repudiated his own logic! He had based all, his th and trust and confidence in Mill- an, on the belief that Millman was £n honest man. Well, an honest man wouldn't voluntarily ald and abet a ‘ihief in getting away with stolen noney, nor make himself an accom- Plice after the fact, nor offer to help outwit the police, nor agree to par- ticipate in what amounted to steal- sng the money for a second time. and ‘make himself a eriminal! e man was then dishenest, and for two years had covered that dishon- esty with a mask of hypocris: was obvieus enough, since the hy- pocrisy had been salely for his, Dave Fenderson's, benefit. that Millman had Dlanned it all patiently from the be- zinning, and_now meant to do him cold. to get the money and keep it. He could not remain still. He was up on his_feet again from the cot. Fury had him in its grip once more. Five years! Five years of hell in this devil’s hole! And a branded name! He had thrown everything into the balance——all he had! And now—this! Tricked! That was it—tricked! Tricked by a Judas! All the passion of the man was on the surface now. Lean and gaunt. his body seemed to crouch forward though .to spring; his hands, with fingers crooked like claws reaching for thelr prey, were outstretched be- fore him. Sixty-one days’ start Mill- man had. - But Millman would need more tham that! The only man in the world whom he had ever trusted. and_who had then betrayed him, would need more than sixty-one days to escape the reckoning that was to come. Millman might hide. Millman might live for years in layjsh ease on that money, and in the end there might be none of that money left, but cooner or later Millman would pay a bigger price then—a hundred thou- sand dollars. He would get Millm: The world' wasn't big enough for two of them. And when that day came— . His museies relaxed. The paroxysm of fury left him, and suddenly he moaned a little as though in bitter hurt. There was another side to it. Tlo could mot help thinking of that other side. There had been two years of what he thought was friendship— d the friendship had been_ hypoc- y. It was hard to believe. Perhaps| Millman mieant to play sauare after all, perhaps Millman would keej that rendezvous In New York on June 24 at 8 o'clock in the evening at the St. T.ucian Hotel. Perhaps Millman would. Tt wasn't-only_on account of the money that he hoped Millman would —there were those two years of what Tie had thought was friendship. He leaned suddenly against the wall of the cell. the palms of his hands pressed against it, his face crushed into his knuckles. No! What was the use of that? Why try to delude Yimself again? Why try to make him- self believe what he wanted to be- licve, He could reason now coolly :nd logically enough. If Millman was Tionest he would not do what he had offered to. do; and being, therefore. honest. bis' apparent honesty had heen only a mask, and the mask had heen only for his, Dave Hendetson's. henefit, and that, logically, could evi- dence but one thing—that Millman 1ad deliberately set himself to win the confilence that would win for liman_the stake of one hundred housand dollars. There was no other onclusion; was there? His_head came up from his hands. ind he stood rigid, tense. Walt! Walt a minute, until his brain cleared. There wae another possibility. had not thought of it befor - FROM NOW ON BY FRANK L. PACKARD. | the guard. ! your cot!” CIVE THEM . BAKER’S COCOA, TO DRINK ‘The almost unceasing activity with which children® work off their surplus energy makes good and nutritious food a continual necessity. 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Barjan had come last night, the police had made no sign for years—unless Millman were indeed one of them. and, facing faflure, had called in Barjan. Millman hadn’t had a hard time of it in the penitentiary. His education had been the excuse, if it were an ex- cuse, for all the soft clerical jobs. ‘Who was to know if Millman ever spent the nights in his cell? Dave Henderson crushed his fists against his temples. What did it mat- ter! In the long run, what did it mat- ter! Crook, or informant, or an of- ficer, Millman had wrecked him, and he would pay his debt to Millman! He laughed low again, while his teeth ghawed at his lip. There was Bar- jan and Bookie Skarvan—and now Millman! *nd Baldy Vickers and the underworld! There wasn’t much chance, was there? Not much to expect now in return for the eternities in which he had worn these prison stripes, not much out of the ruin of his life, not much for the all and everything he had staked and risked! Not much— only to make one last fight, to make as ny of these men pay as dearly as he could. Fight! Yes, he would fight. He had never hedged. He would never hedge. They had him with his back to the wall. He knew that. There wasn't much chance now; there wasn't any, if he looked the situation squarely in the face. He stood alons, absolutely alone: there was nowhere to turn, ne single soul to turn to. His hand was against every other man's. But he was not beaten. They would never beat him A knift thrust or a black-jack from Bookie Skarvan's skulking pack, though it might end his life, would not beat him; a further term here behind these walls, though it might wither up the soul of him, would not beat him! And Millman! Up above his head his hands twisted and knotted to- gether again, and the great muscular shoulders locked back, and the an. straight limbs grew taut. And he laughed. And the laugh was very low and sinister. A beast eornered was an ugly thing. And the dom- inant instinct in a beast was self- preservation—and a it enemy’s thro: quarter—and beast. They in here, an animal, a numbered thing. not a man; they had not even left him with a name—just one of a herd of beasts and animals. But they had not tamed him. He was alone, facin, them all now, and there wasn't mucE chance because the odds were over- whelming; but if he was alone, he would not go down alone. and He turned his_head suddenly, d his hands dropped to his sides. ere had come a cry from somewhere It was not very loud, but it rang in a startling way through the night silence of the prison. It was a ery as of sudden fear and weakness. It came again; and in a bound Dave Henderson reached the bars of his door, and beat upon them furiously with his fists. He would get into trouble for it undoubtedly, but he had placed that cry now. “Old Tony wasn’'t whispering Yes, he remembered —old Tony's strange appPearance that afternoon. He rattled amain and again on the bars.. Old Tony was moaning now. Footsteps on the run sounded along the iron gallery. A guard passed by: another paused at the d “Get back out of there owled “Beat it! G # back to Dave Henderson retreated to the center of the cell. He heard old Tony's door opened. Then muffled voices. And then a voice that quite audible—one of the guai “I guess he's snuffed out. doc—and, yes, tell the hasn’t gone to bed yet.” Snuffed out! There was a queer, cholkln sensation in Dave Hender- son’s throat. A guard ran along the gallery. Dave Henderson edged si- lently close up to the door of his cell again. He couldn’t see very much— only a gleam of light from mazzi's calll' that f;’l’l‘ on the iron plates of the gallery. ere was no sound from within the other cell now. (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.) LAUNDRY MEN TO ATTEND. Representing the laundry owners' section of the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Assoclation, Franklin V. Killlan and_William R. 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