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(Conyrialit, the Frank A, Munsey Compan: (eepsrights Wha APA Meee es, Bob Norris, a young bead shoulder, very tenderly and grave- ly spoken: ou can marry me, be- ‘ause I love you, dear; and I need you an youl” 4] wyer, falls in tove with hile stenographer, Lemise 1 of mystery.” Ones, on impulse, he kisses her, Indignant, plane to his employ, But she changes her mind when, baving offended certain local politi: ciape, Norris is attacked by them, The “ring,” led by Judge Harding and Packy Dunn, seeks to rata Norris's law practice, Louise stands by hin tm tis gallant fight, 80 do two rich college friends of his, ‘Thanks to the wealth these two ten gat at hie dios, Norris turns the tables by bringing down public censure upon bom rule ) 6O A extremity of her sudden torture she beat with her clutched hands on the window-pane, Suddenly she felt hie hands on her arms, All her resistance went from her. Passive in his hands, she let him turn her to him. “IT love you. of you, my poor little girl. I want to take care Don’t you think ? 1 CHAPTER XIV. pie ca oA Won' t you let me try, ; “T can't marry dear,” she sald The Plot Explodes. desointely; "I eant marry any one, I would bring shame to Please, please understan don't believe it—I dot won't. Tell me why you won't marry me. Tell me. I have @ right to know." “Not to-night. I am tired to-night dear. I can't tell you.” locked fingers over her eyes. t tell you to-night.” Her voice was ut- terly weary. “Very well.” His voice was in- finitely tender. “I will wait until to-morrow.” The telephone rang again. In obedience to habit, scarcely The local papers could not close bla A what he did, he picked up their columns to the news, and when the instrument. She did not hear what he sald; she At was discovered that thse youre suddenly realized that he had put men of position and wea! in that 4, the receiver. city had employed the detective to co is in trouble,” he sald crisp- protect their college mate, it caught ly. “I have not a minute to lose to the editors all over #¢t to him.” the news sense of “Where are you going?” CERTAIN district leader was arrested, or rather @ warrant sworn out for him, for intimidating a juryman, When it was discovered that the detective whom the cor- ruptionists fear more than they do @n enraged electorate had been in the city for some weeks quietly gath- ering evidence of the methods used against Norris, the bosses, the local papers and the public all woke up with a start. Y bg I-I— "t and I ee coe! “To the Harvest Moon, Ho is In fact, Packy Dunn had to call the there, He is so reckless, and I hav game off. tse ve nes pe eee f mies. ion’t know what hae hap- But Norris would not call the game pened. I-must go at onoe.” off, t he caught his arm Norris’s office became that rallying- point for the terrorized poor, Into that office came those whose lips were unsealeg at last, and who had burned secretly for vengean The city, the country, hummed with the stories which they told, and which Norris gave to the press, The people, who are only powerful when they are angry or scared, were both angry and scared, The mosquito had escaped the slap and had deposited a germ beneath the tough hide of the ring that need ed quick treatment not to be fatal. Also the elections, which by that city’s charter wero held in the spring, were coming. DVonlon, the city's boss, interviewed Dun Now, see here,” sald Donlon, who, from his long, attenuated form and skull as generally known sas “the sireak of lean,” as Dunn was known as “the streak of fat,” “you got us into this mess, {t's up to you to stop his mouth.” He fixed on the other his_eyes, of which the Irises were so light that they scarcely mi a stain of color on the whit The look of those eyes, which seemed nothing but black pupils on yellow, was rather sinister. “T get you,” said Packy, Meanwhile tho matron of a certain foster home was surprised to receive requests from two different lawyers in regard to a child known as Mar- garet Fowler. The yeas replied that a widow of means by the name of Blackwell had ante. th sane. Inquiries in the city where Mrs. Blackwell had been known revealed the fact that ES had long il oe lier broperty and gone away, bape ent, abroad All efforts to tri rther failed. Come, get your bat quickly.” “Can T go with you?” , ‘0, Loulse, I will put you in a ax "Don't go, dear, t bf of you. I eg—I beg of you dene. “T must, Louls Why, what on earth is the matter? he smiled “I am frightened. Something ‘says to me to keep you. It's a trick. You are so careless, too. You have many enemies, Oh! don't g¢ He laughed from a heart warm with the realization of how she cared for him. “[T’ must go. Don't be alarmed, child.” He went downstairs with her and at the door hailed a taxi. Ho urged her to take the taxi, wecing she was resolute, sprang into {t himself, She saw him sate at her, then he was go Suddenly there shot from the some words she had heard months before: “And when he wol up in the morning he was not In the same place, and the police were at the side of his bed. ‘ell him to be careful,” “Take me to the Harvest Moon as fast as you can," she said to the first chauffeur sho encountered. Arrived at her destination, she en- tered a dim hallway. Softly and suddenly a man appeared before hi H ald. “What do you Norris, the lawye: T have an urgent message for she said, with a frightened throb of the heart. “He ain't been here. ¥ don't know who you are talkin’ about,” he replied, with a rasp of coarse anger in thi words. “You are not telling the truth when you say you do not know Mr, Norris,” sho asserted with cold authority. “All tho city knows of him. And he fs here. I was in his office when the telephone message came. Go at once and tell him I wish to speak to him, or I shall find means to make you." “Here, youl" he shouted in passion, but her quick-noting brain called to her to look at the sudden sweat on his forehead, je furtive things that dartod in hie ey “You get out. don't know him. He ain't been here. You get out!" pid Bie stepped back and opened the “On ment, chauffeur. ney ast CHAPTER XV. “Don’t Go. I Am Afraid.” @E feeling of the coming holidays was in the air. The spirit of Christmas had in- vaded the office-bulldings. The spirit of the holidays was in the office of Robert Norris, at- torney and counsellor-at-law. The old year was ending in victory, and his office staff consulted together on @ moment, please; just one mo- She turned and called the The man came quickly to her, He Christmas gift for their obief. was a big, browned-face fellow, look “Oh, dear! what in the world does ing huge in his furs, Under the brim of his cap his eyos looked at her keen- ly, then at the man behind her, then back again to her cool, quiet face. “Yes, lady.” He touched his cap. "Go to the nearest telephone. Call the Varsity Club, ‘Tell them that Mr, Norris is here, detained by this man. Ask them to bring Eelp at once, Tam Mr. Norris's secret You know Mr, Norris—Robert Ni the attorne: | man want?” demanded Miss Gray. “Don't you know what you would Ife somebody to give you? Why, & weman would know right away.” *@tes Gray, you've got to do it Pisk out something for him.” “Here ie the money, Mise Gray.” “But I don't know what he wants, “You bet I know him,” said the Please, no.” chauffeur suddenly, “All right, but “It's settled.” you'd better come with me, lady.” “Whatever you say goes.” On her way out of the office, to make @ round of the shops for the purpose of choosing the gift, she chanced to meet Norris, who was just coming in. He called her into his private office. e “I want you to marry m¢ 0 sald abruptly. “Will you marry me, Miss “No, I shall “You wait!" here. Go at once.” cried the man with the yellow face. “Lady, let me speak to you a minute. “Well, what ts it?” “Lady,” he whispered, “Mr. Norris is here. But I was just protecting him like I do everybody who comes here, He wouldn't want anybody to see him. I ain't lying. If you don't belleve me, go upstairs. He's in that room by the first turn. Go upstairs and see for yourself, lady." “Come with me, please,” she said to the chauffeur, “Walt, misi ‘The chauffeur looked up and down the street, “I know this dump. You wait down here. I'll get him.” “Thank you!" thank you!” But the two figures were already climbing the CHAPTER XVI. The ‘‘Harvest Moon.” HE enowy street was almost she cried, in @ flare of tem- per, “not if you were the t man on earth.” The telephone jangled. Nelther of them paid any heed to its summons. “Mr. N 3," said she with @ quiver in her voice, “I did not mean it like that. 1 have been cruel to you. The reason that I stayed on here was because I realized that you —that you"—the quiver now showed in her lips—"that you were the kind. est, gentlest-hearted man I have over known, and that you could not be anything but gentle and respectful to women, That is why I stayed— she cried, “Oh, bar deserted; ite life would qimmens” io cried, with the hope ease lates Laine Grae ining in his eyes, “But,” she said drearily, “I can't crouched on the threshold of the Harvest Moon and waited. Buddenly, through the open door, in marry you.” ry _ “"Louise"—the word was spoken at An Unusual Romance of Mother Love: "oF a New Yorker’s Gallant Battle ‘for Success | A Complete Novel Each Week in The Evening World the murkily lighted hall, she saw something appear; something which looked like a huge body with two heads—one was carried at an angle as if to balance a burden, the other wn swayed as does the head of a help- less man who Is drugged. Forget- ting the chauffeur's ution not to enter the house, she ran Into the hall. “No, he ain't dead!” panted the chauffeur. “Hear him breathe—help me, if you can, lady. Gee, how heavy they are when they get like this Between them, they carried the Inert mass of bone and flesh out of the house and down the steps. The hoarse respirations of their burden mingled with the panting of the chauffeur, “A doctor—quick—quick!" she cried as the lamps fell on the upturned, ghastly face, the bluish Ips drawn back from the teeth, the white lean throat from which the collar had be torn, the sinews moving under the flesh painfully with each tong, snoring breath, In another moment the cab wa swaying and skidding over the slippery streets, ‘The ride was grotesque tn the inten- sity of its dragging pain. It seemed hours before the cab stopped and a quick, competent, quiet man was standing on the pavement beside the pen cab-door, She saw him lift the eyelids on the Impassive face, and then followed while they carried the body, with its hanging head and drag- ging feet, into a physician's house, Afterward she learned that there had been grave danger. The men who had forced the drug down his throat after partially stunning him with a blow from behind had made a mis-* take either in the quantity they forced on him or in their judgment as to the amount a man unused to the poison could stand. Had she Bok arrived and acted promptly the t_ might have been fatal. In fi Norris's condition had begun already to frighten them: they had no Intention of killing him. In their panic they had made no resistance to Ais removal, welcoming the chance of escape it proffered. CHAPTER XVII. in gray clouds and fell on a city festooned and piled with snow. ‘The alr was cold and sharp in the streets. It revived Louise after the clammy atmosphere of her room. She decided to walk downtown. The cart overloaded, were creeping behind carts piled with snow. She walked on, feeling brighter, wondering what she would buy for Norris with the money contributed by the staff, The shopping district was already crowded, Motors and cabs were in lines among the snow-piles, She walked on in a coma of weariness. Presently she noticed that she was passing long windows in which a jovial Santa Claus drove a reindeer anda sleigh piled high with presents. Snow, made of cotton and powdered with some bright dust, covered the floor of the windows, Articles were strewn over It, She noticed one heap in which were men’s brushes of sil- ver, watches, and purses of pigskin, She entered the shop. ° A Hopeless Dawn. HE dawn of the day befors Christmas came lowering up from a horizon swathed The offce was uneasy. Norris had not come down. A telephone mes- sage had said that he was ill would be in late that day, Miss was absent, and there was no message to explain it. Still, as the consultation reflected, she might have taken the morning off to buy their gift for the and . Noon, hdwever, she did not appoar. Tho afternoon added its uneasiness. Hearing nothing of Mise Gray, the head clerk sent Jimmy, the office boy, to her boarding house, The telephone bell rings. It ts Jim~- my screaming with excitement “The police have been in Miss Gray's rooms. She has been arrested. Sh refused to give her name, but thes passed, and found a bill with her address in her purse, She's in the New Market po- lice station now.” “Qui Central; don't be all night with that number, Get on your co: boys, and get over to the New Mar- ket. It's a dirty, anenking trick of Dunn and the gang, that's what it ta. For heaven's sake, Central, where is that number? It's a frame-up—a frame-up"— “How are you, Mr. Norris?” said the desk sergeant the Market street station. What does this arrest mean?” It's shoplifting. Arrested in Price & Burnham's by the store detectiv She had a@ bracelet in her hand; admitted she took ft, and the srs her do it, so did the ‘tloorwa “T wish to se@ her at one He followed the subdued officer, who threw open a door. The room was empty, the captain betae out on his inspection. Norris sat down, The door opened and she entered. Behind her the red-veined face and buttons of the sergeant shone. Norris waved an order for the door to be closed, then sprang eagerly for ward, hands outstretched. oor little girk” he sald, his king under the blow struck he alht of her pite white Louise, my poor git! She shrank from him; the flutter of her small hands to avoid his grasp was like the beat of the wings of a wounded bird, "I did {t— its true—I did 1t"-—— CHAPTER XVIII. In the Captain’s Rooms HE had thought to see horror and surprise in his face, but there was nothing but com- passion, now grown deeper, tenderer, quieter “Louise, poor child, they must have tormented you horribly.” “You don’t understand,” @he eried, clasping her hands together and shak- ing them tn the violence of her tor- ment, “I did tt, They did not force me to say anything. I did not an- ewer their questions: I did not caro what they said, I did not deny tt. I only wanted to get it over—that is what I want with you. I did ft. T have done !t before. Iam a thief, I was born on It is in my blood, I can't help tt. Now, do you under- stand? That is why [ told you that I could not marry you. That Is why T told you I would shame you if 1 did Now, I am the only one who ts matter. reading for six cents a week. By you will secure a complete novel eine dealer has not been able to by the foremost living authors. Bear this in mit Are You Going Away for the Summer? When you go out of town for the summer you may find It Is difficult and costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading Why send to the city for novels at $1, 25 or $1.50 each or buy them at a fancy price in some country store You can supply yourself with the best most delightful summer subscribing to The Evening World for the summer months , not only for yourself but for any of your friends who expect to spend the summer in the country. Go away. Please, please go hat is part of my fight, and even Mf T should fail tshall marry you. 1 would do it if you were taken from me the next moment. Oh, my love, my His passion, pity and anger tore his self-control to ribbons, Ho knelt and clutched her and. strained her against his breast, as if to hold that the Jaw was stretching darling—my darling’ The slow, difficult tears of a man rose to his eyes, She could not resist that moment of eolace, of farewell, in his arms. She laid her cheek to his, Then, for a while, neither spoke. As is the way with women when they love, his break Into weakness called to her strength. When at last she raised her head and gently drew herself from his ‘was & woman, not the pitifyl had styl drawn into them. “You see, boy dear,” she enid, with a iittle smite Tehting the sad white. 3 ness of her beauty, “our lives don't No together, yours and mine, and 1 am happler thinking ft ts so—happy though I love you—because I love ou.” 5 He rose and turned from her. Mis finger-tips beat the table as if he were thinking. When will you marry me? To morrow?” he demanded, turning her. “{ shall never marry you.” “You must. T have to Dail yor defense, | must have my mind clear for that.” “Thore is no defense. T am gullty “You are not guilty. Tam going to that In court. Tam going to a defense that will n the munity. Will you ? No, U had for- mas—will you r gotten ft will be Chi marry mo to-night? have told you I will not marry you, “And I say—yes. Don't you under- stand? It will be worth everything to my case, and everything to me as well, ant you near me every now on, until you step It's our big it will mean minute from from the think T would buy my freedom at that price?” she cried, He stepped up to h His face was flerce, almost cruel In Its tron resolve, “Do you think I will let you lose me any chance to win this case?" “No, T tell you. L won't—I can’t,” she panted, retreating. “You love me, You told me ao, and ou can't go back on that, and I am ning to take you and marry you to. night. You need me now. have never had any one who loved you enough to take care of you; T know that. Now, Tam going to do ft, And see here—see here’—he shook her roughly in the fury of his aroused will—"T love you, too, IT can’t live without you, Every day you have you heen in my thoughts; every night, You talk of what Is in your blood, Well, you are in mine. Do you un- derstand? IT have had to fight every day that I have seen you—every hour —not to tell you that, because, fool that I waa, I could not see you loved me, and did not want you to go away as you would have done if you had not cared for ine. But now I know you do love me, and nothing you can say or do ts going to keep me from having you, T have had a miserable, unhappy life, and so have you, This is our chance fot happiness, and we will take It, “But,” she choked, fighting with all her waning strength the battle with his will, ‘they will send me to prison, How can I go to prison as your wife?” “You need me now more than you ever will need me again, Look in my eyes and tell me tf It Is not so." His warm, strong arins were about her cold body, All the persuasion of his sirength was about her—made high and fine by the purity and hon- esty of his man's heart. She looked in his face. Her lps formed the words to send him from her, but she was too exhausted with horrors, too weak and young. Her head went down. She hid her face on his breast, and they stood allent in each other's arms until a tap at the door told them that the law was wait- Ing for her. CHAPTER XIX. In the Judge's Library. “ HE prisoner walves ex- amination and asks to be admitted to | Judge Harding's Ih ¥ did not lack brillianey of iumination to-night. The top-lights, above the walled books, shone down brightly on gilded tooling, on the white heads of the marbie law-givers. The Judge was in evening clothes. Later he would be the charming, pol- ished host at his dinner-party; now, he wore the icy expression which he donned with his robes when he eat on tho bench, “Te prisoner watves exutm!natton and asks to be admitted to bail,” re- peated the young lawyer, “Your Honor,” said the District- each week. Not some old book a sell, but the finest up-to-date fiction Attorney, a dar! thick-lipped person, Who wore an expression too vicious to be natural, and whose legal man- ner had two phases, one of olly, overwhelming flattery, and the other of tlery, overwhelming — violene which oil and fire ho wisely did uux, “L shall ask for the highest Honor will consent to fix. L that Your Hono insure the app for trial. thia prisone: ion light bail and disapy here is no question of that, the pri The Judge held up a silencing hi slender, with all-powerful author Let there be no more tnteri tions,” he sald frigidly “if this prisoner disappears, it be sald that clously office wa not bail ask made it sufficient to arance of this pris. it oner’s attorney, and, rity. ‘Trup- wilt the charge has mali- heon fostizated and that my afraid to bring it to trial, It is n knowledge that this man en to gro! less accusam. tions against the administration of in thia ett Hore he shot & from behind his thick glasses apn Ave suite men, “I and office my vd sufficiently from his slanderous insinuations, and [ de- mand, in view of the relation of the prisoner to this man, and in view of the facts in the case, that the ba il be made eet to insure the prison- "oat the bar for tri ations to the prisone insure Ber provence at 1 bellowed the District-A around and thrust nto that of the pri ‘and already your ¢ the bar for ttor- ng a inon- rftioe vy has begun ‘Its usual vile, contempt. ible, unprofessional practice, 1 told that certain of your empl m de accusation in public that desire for ail his risen fe like sleckness. pnge.” He turned, thers fell into d “Your Honor am ryeen thin je had been framed up because of a and uck- wees that it is a matter of the honor of my office that this prt to trial, 1. therefo; heaviest bail it Your Honor to fix." ‘Lam inclined to agree with lal case, and I pner be bro’ » demand thoroughly agree must not be the slightest mus given the public that the c other than that it appears on the face. T shall fix the bail at The Judge looked at lawyer. “I protest, Your Honor, tha’ aught the is in the power of you mos ith you that there sur $5,000." the prisoner's f t, in view of the charge, the ball Is excea- sive.” “T call your attention, Mr. Norria, to the Re inal %, section of this, State, 2. ‘That fs my authorit “Bob, let them make it what lease; ngenied that youth to all nd f protest, Your Honor,” the District-Attorney, whould stand. [do not propose ined Statutes of the crim: paragraph y. they I'l go the limit,” whinpered sent a freezing glance lence, erled ‘that the ball that this man shall say that my office has framed a case and dropped tt. Your Honor knows what will be said if this prisoner disappears.” “Twill be r pearance of my client. the Judge. "Yes, Your Honor,” “Then gay the prisoner.” ‘Yes, Your Honor, little angry color in the lawy: but his manner remained qulet. ponnible for the ap- Do you mean the prisoner?" anked There was a ‘a face, “L will be responatble for the ap- pearance of the prisoner, and [ask In view of that made rea “Yes, you'll be responsible.” Distriet-Attorney sho lawyer's unmoved fa The Dist Attorney had suffered much Norris; his official position, whic! heretofore been easy and had been filed for the last) m with storms and tribulations, perating to endure for a m: casy weathe nd easy bargains, nsible for too jonnble, fixed the ball, produced I shall remand the prii to jail to await trial.” ik his fist in t fact that the ball be Th tric! from mh had pleasant, onthe exane 1 used to “You much If it tx not jsoner The girl, who was the foous of the struggle, shive ever the Judge spoke, and AKO, iculties of gone numb | faculty rema fear of nt ned © man Whose éyes, whose n whose hands, shook her alsion and terror al seating in its intensity um here to offer the batt, ener? said. Koree. Hroad and Charles own, free of ail at en ner of whieh 1 nine the title, Attorney. snapped the prisoner's attorney, the District-Attorney ized what his words meant, hearing had but only one deathly, unnatural d, as she did when; Not that aha the Imoat Your “I offer as se- curity the office building on the eco reety, cum Dens. And [ask for thirty-six hours to Dis- our Honor, T protest,” cried the ‘he request of ts unreason- able and is baned on @ petty desire to annoy access to my cellent.” and hinder me in getting “It Is a perfectly correct request,” sald the Judge tmpaanively. ot under the circumstances, Jono." "And what are those ctr Your ‘cum- ply that Iam going to marry soner, and this j¥ our wedding night Mor an Instant there was allen: dumb-stunned, ear-straining silence. “Therefore, Your Honor now see® why Taay ! will be responsible for the production of the prisoner when re- quired.” ‘The Judge hesitated, glanced at the Distriet-Attorn who glanced in men, He knew In to at for the securtt delay to examine the city had, after all, been a dictation of matic 1 by one of the bikgest fortun wh if auch and would alao he sure to mest with ridicule, ‘The District-Attorney had suffered much from ridicule of late, but now, if he persisted, what would not he said of him? “LT withdraw my demand Your Honor," he sald, and then added is curious attention to all the other at tention which focused upon the girl soon to be a bride, who stood, eyes emt The Evening World BS 9HSGGGHGSH90H0HSSE00000600. § Ce ee >. a or *, a age rome ©OO® Tl closed In a chalklike face, beside the erect, bright-eyed man who was to be her husband. Surely she did not look much like a bride, Then Norris took the arm of the girl who was her from the to be his bride and led room, followed by the train of exultant newspaper men, “That man’ abandon of terror, She panted | “Tin lost an Jost—that man in there—there is no cacape from him. it I'm lost—I know his arm around her and fair- ly carried here to the car. There he drew her Into his arms and soothed her whilo she sobbed that she was lost, and begged him to save her from the man she had Just seen—that if he loved her he would save her from him, Force alid hit deserted aver his shoulder indicated that lowed the sensatio to-morrow on “Farewell,” hoe grinn quivering car well, gentieme be with us at ( ‘The wind & roar; through the car flew ished, drew to pin-points, The dark ‘ar bullet ountry Back in the city, In his splendid I drawing-room, fable, smiling. enne, received was seen to gt! arm After a to explain to that he had bh rheumatiay he deplo getting old, Lat of * fully from the He “Packy Annual Chrin roared and sh ‘he In his arm guarded from_ any Dunn is car into the dark and then he looked over t the taxi lights which the newspapermen fol- that would burst the city, she slid his into the “high"—"fare- n, sorry that you won't iretna Green.” ushed at them with @ it, in a funnel of speed, The taxt lights dimin- went out, ed straight toward the Harding, af- quite at his polished his guests, Suddenly he row pale and rasp his short time he was able his concerned guests had an attack of acute TLaughingly he was the fact that that night, in a private room Palace Auditorium,” care- Intrusion pmertc hilarity of the Association's Great tmas Eve Ball,” which hrilled under the lights of the dancing floor, a group of men wat at poker with the slop “What do married to het sotto lanell “loor Commit The honorable clgar ho was at his carde aide, ain't goin’ to draw. Tm satisfied,” about a table covered of “wine.” you think this gettin’ ris goltg to do to t asked a yo! of yatiike ov “and big ed letters of gold, thee in Packy shifted the macerating and looked with his head on one T stand pat. anid Pocky. ‘The door to the private room was pushed open the ity officials him; tt sound istrict-Attor in his appearing In such a pla r‘of drunken riot entered w admit the figure of y; nothing unusual moat attended that ball. A with Jed ike the how! of a satisfied beast, And at t lamplit room words were spoken, Joined — toget anunder.” at moment, in a small, of a country rect “Whom G let no man her, put CHAPTER XX. “Let's Get TT. HE © the Rotten Business Over.”’ Ity discussed the mar- riage from avenue to slum. Expressions of deep regret were heard when it was an- nounced that the trial would be held bei Norris madi to prevent th useless, He quiet place in ore Judge Harding. le every legitimate effort his, but his efforts were had taken his wife to a 1 the country, where he labored on her defense, Their life seemed to him like the dre whore pain ts sometines of aman stifled by opiates. ‘Thi together were hours of polgnant Joy; others of sweet, intimate comradeship which, for the first him the mea Then the dream time in his life, taught ning of the word home, would We torn to pieces, and the naked horror of fact would stand grinning before him. He would w Ing, shaking t! not until his he realize tha uke In the night, sweat- rough all his flesh; and hand touched her could t she waa there, and not barred away from him tn the vileness and desolatio: n of a prison, Then he would lie awake, hearing her breath- tng, the acent tris, plannis some hiding- conceal her came stalkin, of her hair tn his nos- ig flight, thinking of place where he could from the terror which i nearer through the fying days to clutch her. And yet, were, all how sweet the those days brighter againat the @ombre background of the future! Hia wife was a source of unending surprise to him, ‘The girl who had shuddered, ashen and trembling tn tho Judge's brary, was gone In her place was a woman who, tn her beicht, sad gent th t only of him. Sometines w dered if this new manner was due to the fact that she really had no. he Oven sionally, when #he thought he was not watching, ahe would look at him as if she were storing up memories against the time wh they would be together no more, There wae in the touch of her lips to his a quality of renunelation, uf farewell In fact, It was he who had the sud den panies, the crawling fears, ‘The days) were’ slipy away like sand through his elutehing fingers. Once when they were together in the fire- Nght sudden xweetness of her brave laugh Nad shaken hin with a passton of pity, A dreadful fee ot helplessness came over h Ing him to hb his face hidde above him, #! soling him as eras he had ni done “Roy, dear,” nothing that separate us. words the cle: DEAL teed STORY, FULL OF LAUGHS AND THRILLS—ADVENTURES OF A MAN AND A GIRL LIN GUARDING A BOY “WORTH Hus WEIGHT Le GOLD. THE LITTLE NUGGET WODEHOUSE. he Book on he Sanne wit Gow You with 4 knees beside } en in her Bhe bent poothing his a mother--such a1 r known might have “never mind; happen wil really That is what those reyman sald that night e mall, 300000000 YOU GET IT FOR $1.2 ’ Norrie received the of the wedding as the last and blow stored up for her in the right fist of fortune, It was fortt that the new-found prosperity of her #on enabled him to send her with a wealthy and invalid cousia in Whoin she suspected of having testa- mentary sf imag thus, to use her ber ve Bang J from 6 ‘o her class, disgri is like a c rekiai; it finds sreut ithe in crossing water, However, assured him that the marriage had ruined him, Having bestowed this comfort, she added to it by de- parting. But it did not fuin bim, It added to his prominence and seat & broader, better-paying stream of au to his offic fense which was his only hope an ‘we face of the overwhelming evidenge. against his wife. He sought to ne- tain & prominent firm of law; tw him, but they declined to a retainer, telling him that se Was hopeless, his outlined d@- fense absurd and bisarre and him to substitute a plea of gul throw hitnself on the mercy Court, But the Court's mer pened to be in the custody of Judge Harding, so he petused, He was further hampered, almeat te madness, by lis inability to reach € witness of the utmost importanes te his defense--hia wife's father, whe lived in the South, and who wae trav cling, However, he was reassured by receiving a letter from him which promised lis return and gladly of- fered his testimony, Only once did his wife break dows, and that was when at last he had te tell her that Judge Harding would eft abject » bitterly distrustful of himacit and of at her trial, Her terror was and she clung to him, begging bim to save her, ing that she would befor any other judge, but to aa her from that one. before the trial, On the following morning he had been forced to leave her, recovered as to composure, but a very different wo- man from the one who had marched so bravely toward her fate. lle was sitting in his office, unable to work, feeling helpless, depressed, and in of will and spirit, when 1 was brought in to him, t was that of the junior member of the firm which had declined the This was a tainer. The junior member entered. ie was a gray-haired young man, alert, brillant, and possessed of @ rising reputation, “Hello, Bob!" he sald, extendin: yellow suede hand. Norris felt a ing of spirits as he graspped that hand. The man was a casual friend, but he had that indefinablo alr of energy and success which men of bie t them. i ‘hen, tmpetuously: “Tom, has your firm Jec.ded to ac- cept my retainer?” The other looked at him through cool, frank eyes. “Had some difficulty in getting (ae retniner accepted, haven't you? anked ‘o tell you the truth, the firme I want won't touch it. And Tom, I feel the need of help of older heads. tt 1s a frightful responsibility to go it alone." The other nodded and put a hand on his shoulder, ‘ome to luncheon at my club; T want to talk this case over wi yo Norris, feeling a glow of confi- dence for the first time that dreary day, hurriedly got his hat and cost. At the club, the junior xlanced up from the visitors te which he was writing. “If you don't object, we will he luncheon in my room, It ta boven se know talk these things o many men whom in the dining-room. In his room over a luncheon tray before the grate the junior began to talk, During that talk 3 ung husba: whitened 0 became drawn, he cried at ri ean, length, “that they are going to @z the jury?’ “Not what one would call @x it, ctly. There is no need for that. will be on the bench.” “Well, well, I can’t help that.” “You know what he will do to that defense of yours, don’t you, tn Bi charge?” Norris looked down at his sao that w icking at the tab! “You mean your wife bas got te hor chance “Good God! don't I know tt? Don't I know it? But what other earthly chance Is there for her?” He tried to drink his coffee, Dut it gagged him, and he set down the cup. The other i Bob, you have some pretty serleus nies in this town, “Can it be helped now? With the torment of impatience he atruck the table with his hand, ere is Dunn, He is vindietive— and the police--and the politicians, ‘They see a big chénve to met square.” © was no need to ask me to) to tell me that. [ know ft— know tt--know it. Heaven's sake, why refer to {t now? oa: “Because there {s one enemy have made who can call them all big than Donlon or Dunn or ice.” “You mean the Public Service Cor- porat n”? “exactly Jowly, hot be a man on it who will not be under some kind of pressure—pi sure you can't trace, People are angry now, ited about the ex- posures in the police and the courte; people in the masa are very brave just now, but those men won't be in the mass, They will be lifted out of each litte shivering one, into the cold eye of the have the power in this ng who hate you." (To Be Continued.) the crowd, Cents | |