Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1921, Page 14

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He had not grasped it yes. He won- dered whether he should be sorry | or glad for old Tony—death was the lifer's goal. He did not know. It brought, though, a great ‘aching into his own soul. It seemed to stamp with the ultimate tonight the im- measurable void in his own life. Old Tony was the last link between him- self and that thing of priceless worth that men called friendship. Millman had denied it, outraged it, betrayed it; and now old Tony had swerved in his allegiance, and turned away at the call of a greater friend. Yes. death could not be anything but a friend to Tony. There seemed to be no longer any doubt of that in his mind: Snuffed out! Footsteps, several of them, came again along the iron gallery, racket- Ing through the night, but they did not pass his cell this time; they came from the other direction, and went into Lomazzi's cell. It was strange that this_should have happened to- nizht! There would be no more shoulder touch in the lockstep for the few days that were left: no smile of eyes and lips across the carpenter surreptitious, _intimate _lit- tle gestures of open-hearted compa fonship! It seemed to crown in an! appaliing way, to brihg home to him | now "with a new and appalling force what, five minutes ago, he had thought he had already appreciated to its fullest and bitterest depths— loneliness. He was alone—alone— alone. The murmur of voices came from the other cell. Time passed. He clung there to the bars. Alone—with- out help! The presence of death seemed to have infused itself into 2nd to have become synonymous with that thought. It seemed insidiously to eat into his soul and being, to make his mind sick and weary, whis- pering to him to capitulate because he was alone, ringed about with forces that would inevitably over- whelm his puny single-handed de- fiance—because he was alone—and it 1 would be hopeless to go further alone —without help. He drew back suddenly from the door, conscious for the first time that he must have been clutching and straining at the bars with all his strength. His fingers, relaxed now. were stiff, and the circulation seemed to have left them. A guard was opening the door. Behind the guard. that white-haired man was the whrden. He had always liked the warden. The man was stern. but he was always just. He did not under- stand why the warden had come to his cell. It was the warden who spoke. “Lomazsi is dying. He has begged to be allowed to say good-by to you. I can see no objection. You may come.” Dave Henderson moistened his lips with the tip of his tongue. —I thought I heard them say he he mumbled. as _unconscious.” - answered “A heart attack not many min- i i ‘He the warden briefly. Step quickly; he h: ve Henderson stepped out on the iron gallery. and paused for an in- stant before the door of the adjoining cell. A form lay on the cot, a form with a pasty-colored face. a form whose eyes were closed. The prison doetor. a hypodermic syringe still in his- hand, stood 2 little to one side. Dave Henderson swept his across hig eyes—there was a sudden mist there that blurred the scene— and, moving forward, dropped down on his knees beside the cot. A hand reached out and grasped his feebly: the dark eyes opened and fixed on him with a flicker of the old fire in their depths; and the lips quivered in a smile. 014 Tony was whispering—old Tony always talked and whispered to him- self here in his cell every night but old Tony never disturbed any- body—it was hard to hear old Tony even when one listened attentively. Dave Henderson brushed his hand across his eyes again, and bent his head to the other's lips to catch the words. “You mak-a da fool play when you come in here, Dave—for me. But I hand ! ' THE 'SUNDAY. STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C, OCTOBER 2, 1921—PART 1. FROM NOW ON _BY FRANK L. PACKARD. Copyright, 1981, by Public Ledger Cs. Copyright, 1821, by R. H. Davis Corp. steel jimmy. with which to force that anywhere any immediate outlay of money—only cured, say. a revolver, he was not fool enoughsto 1 1 his play now to create no could make no move until he had defi- placed those who were watching hi and then, with skould not be very hard to throw the Lomazzi's friend—Capriano. could not discriminate between sh ows and realities out there through| been a_fool play. ders, and started along the street.' Since he had left the penitentiary, he had not given the slightest sign that he hud even a suspicion he Was be- ing watched; and, more than ever he could not afford to do S0 now There were two who could play al the gamo of laying tra And, be- sides, the chances wer: thousanc 1o one that there were nothing but shadows oyer there; and there were the same odds that some one who was not a shadow would see him make the tell-tale investigation. He could not afford to take a chance. He could not afford to fail now. He had to identify beyond question of doubt the man, or men, who were on his trail. if there were any; or, with equal certainty, establish it as a fact that he was letting what he called his_intuition run.away with him. There came a grim emile to his went along. Intuitior shed door; nor had he dared to gc and buy a revolver with |} which to arm himdelf, and of which |12 & he stood desperately in need. e "v-.l ';:z ! had only a few dolrars, but he knew i Wiiched; and Bookie arvan had where, under ordinary circumstances, [ Made an even more ominous threat : Who was it tonight, then— h )56 s without | I ght, then—the Do e could obtain thuse things with lice. or the underworld, or both? He had given no sign that he hac any suspicions. He had gone to Pc latt's openly: after that, in an ap parently aimiless way. as a man al most childishly interested in the mos *rivial things after five years of im prisonment, he had roamed about th streets that afternoon. But his wanderings had not been entirely aimless. He had located Nic- olo Capriano’s house—and, strangely enough, his wanderings had quite & advertently taken him past that hous several times! It was in a shabb quarter of the city, too. Al v a curious sort of house; that is, it was a curious sort of house when com pared with its neighbors. It was on: of ,a row of frame houses in no tob good repair, and it was the se ond house from the corner—the di rectory had supplied him with th. street 'and number. The front of th house differed in no respect fron those on each side of it; it was th. ticularly excited his ad not been able to ely, of course, but it hordered on a lane, and by walking down the cross street one could see it. It had an extension built on that reached almost to the high fence at the edge of the lane, and the exten- tion, weather-beaten in appearance, looked to be almost as old as the house itself. Not so very curious, after all, except that no other house had that extension—and except that, in view of the fact that one Nicolo Capriano lived there, it was at least suggestive. Its back entrance was extremely easy of access! Dave Henderson turned abruptly in through the door of a saloon, and, leaning against the bar—well down flat the far end where he could both see and be seen every time the door was opened—ordered a drink. He had thought a good deal about Nicolo Canriano in the two months He turned suddenly away from the |Since old Tony Lomazzi had ended his window. walked in the darkne to | life sentence. He hadn’t “got” it all the table the center of the poom.|at the moment when the old bomb- and. groping for his hat, made his|thrower had died. It had been mostly way to the door. He had notwex-,old Tony himself who was in his Pected much from this vigil at the|thouzhts then, and the reference to window. but there had always been|Capriano had seemed no more than the possibility that it would be pro-|just a kindly thought on old Tony's ductive. and the earlier hours of the|part for a friend who had no other evening could have been emploved in |friend on earth. But afterward. and no better way. It was dark enough|not many hours afterward, it had all now to ‘pegin his night's work in|taken on a vastly different perspec- earnest. It must be between half-|tive. The full significance of Tony’s past 9 and 10 o'clnck. words had come to_him. and this in There was a dim light in the cor-|turn had stirred his memories of ridor. but. dim though it was. it did |earlier days in San Francisco; and he not hide the ragged. threadhare state remembered Nicolo Capriano. of the carpet on the hallwav and| The barkeeper slid a bottle and stalrs. nor the lack of paint. or|whisky glass toward liim. Dave Hen- even of soan and water. on doors derson half turned his back to the and woodwork. Pelatt'’s Hotel made | street door. resting his elbow negli- no nvretentious claims. It was as{gently on the bar. He waited for a shabby as the shabby quarter in|moment until the barkeeper's atten- which it was located. and as shabbv ' tion was somewhat diverted. then his as the shabby patrons to whom it|fingers cupped around the small gla: catered. But there were v hiding it; and the bottle, places where a man d it in the other hand, was cronped hair and wearing black [ hidden from the door by the broad of elothes of blatant prison cut could | his 1 He poured out a few droj ®o. and he had known Pelatt in the| _cufficient to rob the glass of its old davs. and Pel: eu of bag-|cleanness. The barkeeper looked gage. hadn’t iniaround. Dave Henderson hasti t advance—he h: the bottle down, like a child caught in a misdeameanor, hastily raised the glass to his lins. threw back his head and gulped. The barkeeper scowled. Tt was the trick of the saloon vulture —not only a full glass, but a little over for good measure, when. through ractice, the forefinger and thumb be- came a sort of annex to the rim. Dave Henderson stared back in sullen de- fiance, set the glass down on the bar, drew the back of his hand across his lips—and went out. in Tomorro t minced words In clear that he would be was a moral certainty that every n.ove he made was watched. If he pro- chisel, if he procured, say, imagine such fa would be hidden lortg from those who watched. They would be suspicious facts. It would be picion. He nitely and conclusively identified and that point settied, i watchers off the track long enough to enable him to visit Mrs. Tooler's pigeon cote and, far more important, | his one vital objective now, old Tony | His jaws lofked. He meant to force that issue tonight. even if he| he the window! He had a definite plan| worked out in his mind—including a| visit. to Square John hadn’t been to Square John have gone there immedia reaching San F d have been | not only risky for himself. but risky for Square John: and he had to pro- tect Square John from the searching and pertinent questions that would then have certainly ensued. He was Eoing there. tonight, casually, a simply to one of many similar places —that was part of his plan' And now he smiled in mingled bit- terness and menace. The underworld had complimented him once on be- | ing the possessor of potentialities that could make of him the slickest crook in the United States. He had not for- gotten that. The underworld. or at least a sectian of it in the Baldy Vickers and hi leagued against him now. the police. He would strive to merit| the underworld'’s encomium! 1 v close- himself. Dave Henderson reached the ground floor and gained the street through a small. dingv office that was for the moment deserted. He paused here for a moment, the temntation strong unon him to cross the street plunge into those shadows at the sid- orch iust onnosite to him. grew tight. The temptation strong. almost overpoweringly strong. He would much rather fight that way! And then he shrugged hi FROM THE AVENUE A H Star.) " (Contin shoul never, never forget. Old Tony no forget. You no mak-a da fool play when you go out. Old Tony knows. You need-a_de help. Listen—Nicolo Capriario—Frisco. You understand? Tony Lomazzi send-a you. Tony Lo- mazzi_take-a da Hfe prison for Nic- olo. Nicolo will pay back to Tony's friend. You did not think that’—the voice wae growing feebler, harder to understand, and it was fluttering now —"that, because old Tony call-a you da fool, he did—did not—remember— and—and Some one disengaged Dave Hender- son’s hand from the hand that was clasped around it, and that had sud- denly twitched and, with a spasmodic clutch, had seemed as though striv- ing to maintain its hold. The prison doctor's voice sounded muffled in the cell: “He is_dead.” Dave Henderson looked up at the touch of a guatd’s hand on his shoul- der. The guard jerked his head with curt significance in the direction of the door. BOOK III—PATHS OF THE UNDER- ‘WORLD. I THE DOOR ON THE LANE. ‘Was that a shadow cast by the oro- jection of the door porch out there across the street, or was it more than a shadow? It was true that, to a remarkable degree, one's eyes became accustomed-to the mirk, almost akin { to' blackness, of the ul-lighted street; but the mind did not accommodate itself so ly—a long and sus- tained vigil, the brain .spurred into abnormal activity and under tense strain, produced a mental quality of vision that .detracted from, rather than augmented, the dependence to ' be .placed upon the physical organs of sight. It peopled space with its own imaginations; it created, rather than descried.. Dave Henderson shook his_head in grim uncertainty. He could not be sure what it was out there. . With, the black background Gf the unlighted room behind him he could not be seen at the window by “any one on. the street, which was two stories below, and he had been watch,, ing here ' since it had grown dark. In that time he had seen a dozen shadows, that he could have sworn were not shadows—and yet they were no more than that, after all. He was only sure of one thing—that out theré somewhere, perhaps nowhere within eye range of his window, perhaps even half a block away, but some- where, some one was watching. He had been sure of that during every hour of his new-found:freedom, since he had reached Frisco that noon. He had been sure of it intuitively; but he had failed signally to identify any cne specifically as having ‘dggged or followed him. 3 Freedom! He laughed a little harsh- ly. There weren't any stone walls any more; this window in front of him wasn’t grated, nor the door of the room steel-barred, nor out there in the corridor was there any uniformed guard—and .80 it was freedom. The short, harsh laugh was on his lips again. Freedom! It was a curi- ous freedom, then! He could walk at will out there in the streets—within limits. But he did not dare go yet to that. shed ‘where Mrs. Tooler's old plgeon-cote was. The money probably ‘wasn’t there anyhow—Millman almost certainly had won the first trick and had got away with -it; but it was i I i | Outfitting the Chauffeur Year in and out, Wash- ingtonians send their chauffeurs here for their complete outfits. This Fall prices are very fair and qualities very good. Witness the followiag ex- amples: Suits of Oxford Gray Whipcord..... Overcoats, all-wool lining, to match. Caps of whipcord, to match......... Leggings of leather ... .... 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