The evening world. Newspaper, June 15, 1916, Page 14

" THE EVENING WORLD, O00 00000000 0000000000000 0.0 00 OOOO ODO OOO OO OOU OO COOOL | WHO'S GUILTY? OS TOOL TOO OOOO OTTO for inspecti © black surf te the word XZ Picture Theatres ) @ sign part in any of the rest was None of them ever hi aid the nder dent, "They are always inno- tory No. 7 TRUTH CRUSHED TO EARTH } °°: to hang it under De around the corn ed the youth, r hope, « ouswered Tom, “you hat I haven't told not in nthe tra heir live: re 4 s when ‘Lam tay ing nothin seid the ‘ after A half norning I ident you are really inno The seventh of a series of separate stories penis Hocles that Sie Miah. present cont you probably have, witews {0 dealing with the commission of crimes, convers won't have, to. Jonger, then left the tore, Tle other aide of the street when you first inviting judgment upon both actual guilt BR eos eee ee ee na ee pentane rng, Pace WAIN MAMIOrIe; PRO baw the Fant, Were you alone Mi urjorie darted aw from the "Oh, I'm s f his arm. sald the girl V'a coming tn,” she warned him, Was afr pard his Key in the front door, or sor U know he won't approve, Don't let's we wa! 1 responsibility. you got my note!” — “Then surely the person or ye " 8 © person or persons is their hands met. “I with you can prove your innocen: 1] you'd be away from home "You, sir, if necessary, ‘Though I ing. Which direction shall don’t like ‘to bring her into this, I f | was with a lady. If you will let mo tell inva ‘ ‘ An sho talked they Mad fallen into go into your telephone booth there ri " Hy, littic sweetheart!’ Tom fe- step and were crossing the atree t ° 5 (Copyright, 1916, by Mre, Wilson Woodrow.) “He won't bite us. He- Refore and call her up I will tell her you could decide further as to wish to ection an uproar a half wlow br aawured is to to ask her a few questions ds lock over the phone. You can prove ght them to an abrupt story then, But 1b 1 not he only squa thing—the their di HE champion, sword in hand, was defending bis lady love from the mur- wk of the dragon Wo can't derous 6 g you wi live a lie, Hoe has the right to know.” halt, They turned to locate the tur- lot her name be mentioned ‘outside ‘The group of nurses lounging aw only five-year-old “Itut moll. in connection with this my Blake and four-y -old Marjorie Lampson, playing with a very Mr. npson hearing voices in the A hundred feet away, under the “I agree to that,” assented the big and very friendly collie, But T y the champion, kuew better, He living room, stroiled in. Harry, at his glare of an electric light, @ knot of President knew the dragon would surely swallow Marjorie or drag her away to its heels, caught sight of Tom and halted #IX or seven people were engaged in Tom entered the office booth and lair, unless her defender could frighten away the monster with his sword, ——‘{#reaolute, Just outside the doorway. & decidedly lively tussle, One of the called up the Lainpson home, Mar- “So while M jorie squealed with delight Tommy wielded the wooden ‘Mr. Lampson,” spoke up ‘To: Froup was a policeman. Tom, at @ Jjorie herself answered the ring. In ? right dough fro f the bark! llie’s nose and R¢rv!ng himself for the ordeal. “My &!ance, understood the situation, 4 fow hurried words he explained eword richt doughtily, shaking It in front of the barking collie’ nose and rutner promised to-day to take me . "They were going to hang af wn- the situation and finished by sayin assuring his little playmate he would save her, into the business with him in June.’ dertakews sign under Dr. Lentz's ‘All you need do, dearest, 1s to an It was a wonderful game, But presently the collie tired of tt and “I congratulate you," sald Lampson 4m0,” he explained to Marjorie, ‘and swer truthfully the questions he'll trotted away. Tommy (thrilled at tho triumphant thought that be had van- perfunctorily. that cop must have caught them at ask. Just say you were with me and ¢ Gulsted the dragon) uve chase, He had not run thres etepe before his foot ., ‘That, will mean”, went on OS, beating him cnr the trem! RAEN nes ee v vi vi ve nor a rom hi! be ! ‘ou ne t aa: flipped and he tumbled face downward in a very large and vory sloppy {that Tit have god pay from the beating him up, the idiota! That‘ fight at your lg tigeeree! — soon as I make good. And I'm going “ome of them. The At once—oven before the scream of “But, Tom!" came the quavering R to make gowl. Not only for father's |""Tom!" sho erled, shrilly, “Oh, reply over the wire, I can’t, dear. I * his horrified nurse reached his ears— At the impact of Tom Blake's fist sake and mine, but for Marjorio's, Tom! One of them ta Harryt? can't! The President knows dad. he ceased to be w Victorious warrior the vase flew into the air, crashed too.” “Yes,” said Tom, without Interest. Ho'd be certain to mention it to him. und becaine a vory badly acared Ite down upon the hardwood floor and “ustarjorte'n?” repaated Lampson in “7 860 it And then I'd be tn awful trouble. ‘ ae i Gua iis RAW alk WE ay nas Bee ERS epilty ¢ tild displeasure. “What has Mar- “Ru h, he is alwaya getting into ‘That Ba, I eas iotarters last @ realize at his 10 Catastrophe On & Sa 10 do dd troub| ne we “He’ r night, arry threat te was ruined by the mud—that his the children dumb with horror, Then, J0r® to do with te? Ma Ned hat dia eis iG c-.ao * "T hope ah vo ev o be sted, a } never I Was with you. And"— steps sounded from Mr. 1 hope she will have everything to to be arrested, And dad will never I Was with you. And @ mother bad warned him to be care- as heavy fc : do with it,” answered Tom. forgive him. He aid if Harry ever "All right, sweetheart,” said Tom ful to keep out of the dirt—and that Blake's adjoining study, Harry so far “St don't underst nd you.” got into hee WOFAD Ke BY iene Fenty. LOOM Me apitanen tee he was probably Pig? a hoon dad phe tpag ae and Tun at ton a Oy “Mr, Lampson,” said ‘Tom, “I haye please—ploase, for my sake, go over not worth it. I'll manage somehow Wherefore be howled dismaily, grab up lis cap anc Op speed f 0 yw dé F without your testimony, I've told hi » “Phe nurse swooped down upon him, Out of the room and out. the houso, {ust asked Marjorie to be my wife. and get him aw ithout yo y ‘old him ir hith by the Will you make us both very happy And, stirred by the hint of tears the truth, And the truth Is always drawn thither by the by giving your consent? Lf you will In her entreaty, he reluctantly obeyed. ns to win out. Don’t cry. It's all 4 rry v0) 0 « unning scross e str e ight.” volleya of threats as to’ what Mra, housecoat and slippers. In the door eo en eee ee Hen erie foot "Hie sethetied 16 the Seeaident, ¢ Blake would do when she should Wray be paused, aghast at the tableau “st am afraid I cannot consent to as Harry struck the policeman a _ “I regret, sir," sald ‘Tom, “that my nh nites ne Leh — the b Geass Gh: hie Abeer the Ris priceless Snything of the wort,” ald Lampson, glancing blow on the buck of the witness cannot teatlty. Hut I have ling child homeward. y 0. ole ial ven you my word of honor “Mire. Ilake was a thoroughly well- vase in atoms, Above tt cowered the SUEY: at Torneeent You know all ncst away from (ulsl” ondered Tor, f'cee ” i . meaning woman. In fact, abe meant pile ay children—Tiom and Mat- about me. You know my parents. seizing Harry's arm and finging him "That will do," the President out ao Hah that she = portly soem fond waning At ene natant Mr. Blake stood You know Marjorie cares for me, that back out of the strugile him short. “Good day." well-meauing to her ow! ho! . i ps e b age, hig hard face ab! Oo st he di the polices At a meeting of the faculty that af- ~ {fled to disseminate it among less slowly purpling with the wrath that | Shall be able to support her, As ho did s0 the policeman turned a 3 y that a y ¢ piled up in him, ena was why, at this moment, she Tom!" he thundered at last was engaged in preparing an address Yessir,” replied Tom in @ very which she expected to read two nights @Mall voice i Jater before the Parents’ Club. In her “Who did that?” demanded his fa- + big Ubrary #he sat placidly scribbling ther, point dramatically at the the preamble of her speech ruined va : “I did not come prepared to speak ne boy hesitated; then, drawing a this evening,’ she wrote, laboriously, 10g breath, he prepared’ to confess. ‘out the training of children jy a sub- Before he could speak his father Ject to which I have given"—— rasped out flercely: if On the threshold appeared the nurse {The truth, now! No Hest half leading, half dragging the tear- ,,“I—I don’t tell les, sir,” answered ful and muddy child. At sight of the oe 1 did, sir! I was chasing’ — havoc wrought on Tommy's new suit klened att bet riers pues ey itil piad cried in sudden loss of (itt tho oraten ee ote el tie ir ; tye of the neck, flung him over the pater- ‘You bad, bad boy! See what you've nal knee and began to rain. blow done! You ought to be whipped and ypon him with the full force of a vig- went to bed! How did this happen?” yloug and armor dee ene & vie was this wa faltered ~The whipping hurt excruciatingly. manfully choking back Mis and the fact that Marjorie was an eobs. “1 was playing St. George and appatied witness of it hurt a thou- the Dragon. And Marj'rio was be- sand times more. No man—be he ing the Maiden in Distress—ike—like eleven or one hundred and eleven-- the way you read to me. And Laddie can bear to be humiliated in the eves was the dragon. And I] made him run of the girl ho loves, away. And I chased him. And Lat ast the ordeal was over. Mr fell down and got all muddied up. Riake shoved the tortured boy away And I'm awful sorry, mamma. I from him and stamped out of the didn’t mean to fall down, And’ room. Marjorie ran up to Tom and “So you disobeyed me and got dirty caught hi! pain-clenc and after i warned you not to!” broke in pers, i pee eoewee eenae lg his mother. “You wicked boy! I°-— ea 4 “But,” stammered Tommy, “I~I xo, poor Teer Boyt lt cae told the truth. ‘The way you ald 1 fag ory hoor bese Lim #0 sorry! always must. And"— Se te Cece aay bf, Mrs. Blake interrupted his pitiful {At busted the vase? Why didn't snatched him up from his miry rest- Mr. Blake, ing place, shook him and, amid loud crash, sauntered into the library in mi! 4 as Harry?” defense catching his shoulder in YOU) SAY tt was : H her strong hand and jerking him p2to} had to tell him the truth, along in her wake as she marched bas Seles a , Phere wasn't any- across to the library bouk closet and In eine to do, Mr. Blake thr the library “Tom flung open its door t his head back into ‘Tommy understood now the terrible i punishment that was to be his. Like he snapped. “Because you many nervous and high-strung chil- Gisobeyed mo and broke that vase dren, he had an unreasoning horror a shall not lave a birthday party of the dark. Vor only his very worst (48 year And you shall not have offenses was he ever locked in this te bicycle I promised yout" black closet, Such imprisonment waa _ He siouched back into bis study to anguish to him. It was a ure as nurse his anger, leaving Tom and , acute as for a hysterical “grownup” Marjorie staring in helpless dismay “THE MONEY'S GONE!” TOM SHOUTED, AS HE SURVEYED THE WRECKAGE. to be locked for the night in a burial #t each other, It was Marjorie who broke the dum- , * he walled, cling- founded silence. Nays to grapple with the man who had ternoon Tom Blake way duly and do not eare to go Into that ques- struck him. Tom was where Harry publiciy expelled from the university. tng to the hand that pinched his ten~ 1 thought you said your papa al- tion at all,” said Lampson. “It 19 had been standing and the bluecoat — He himself brought home the news. der little arm so cruelly, “Piease! Ways tells the truth,” sho whispered. enough for me to say that I cannot grabbed him. Harry, seeing what had His mother burst into a flood of tears. Please don’t put me there, II told © promised you that bieyele, and sanction any engagement between you happer yelled: “Oh!" she sobbed. “What have I (he truth!” now and my daughter, “Beat |{, boys! Here come the re- ever done that this disgrace should The siatn of the door and the in- 1-1 guess I was mistaken,” mur. vat at y Harry's st lou: Y * flashed Marjorie, gerves!" fall on me? I have trained you so n listoning to meré — In @ moment the group had scat- carefully! I have taught you truth bout hin. Harry's tered, leaving ‘Tom a captive. Tom and honesty and uprightness from f ‘Tom, because ‘Tom is popu- ane aying merely your very cradle. And now you hold of the wrong chap, bring this horrible shame on us, in of arresting the spite of all I have done for you!” 2 filer father, as stirred as she, took lad that hit me,” de- the matter more stoically. poleeman, puffing from ~“«yjere!" he said, curtly. Take this fight. “I'll swear to that. money, It ts $100. Take it and get rush of ghost-like darkness broke tn Mmured ‘I on his plea for mercy. Ho was a Se prisoner in th rost- awful prison | er edt n—the prison of ear Rlake irned to her desk —-s “That y and work nore on her — From (he days when he had defend- father. #peech for the Miaents’ Club ed her from the collie-dragon Tc matter Miake had loved Marjorie Lampso: ment {the mature Indeed, he could not remember when a, dagedly, “Phe truth queer thing. I'm afraid 1 very much about t under do, Marjorte!’ said her on't care to discuss the vely forbid the en nd L forbid you to sea r the pre to hold Tom Blake had rew 166 of wleve Marjorio Lampson and he ha ved Always she # sort ef communt with Come along i 7 out. I don’t want a black sheep in her brother, Harry, Lad come one had 8 {to him as beautiful and hin.” Marjorie, seeing her lover's plight, fold, You have made your bed. ternoon to the Hike house to talk it nece As the sunshine ran across tho street to his rese Hein i, vim fone with you ra matter of tr ndous import Even is early teens-—at the ayy repeated Refore she could reach hi Ma But, father!” persisted Tom, “I've to all three of thein~—no les# an event When boys pretend to despise girls “t please.” darted out of the shadows and C@UBhT gone nothing wrong. I'm innocent.’ han Tom's birthday party, Which was his love for her had not wavered ingly at Marjorte. jold of her hand, Th don't expel innocent boys 9 take place on the following we And now, at twenty-one was no the girl w and trembling. » 1 he said, ” from dblleg: retorted his father. most thrilling 1 event of jonger the affection of a child for knew the awe in which she held I'm not greeted them. “Im on of & man for a woman fy him for the sake imed, fight. Please believe me, ‘I've never lied yele for my birth. Marjorie had grown to lender loved, But ye pode to you. Don't send me away like ar young wolmanhood, Very. Tom, “But tt is only ing to Mis rejoin Tom. this’ You promised to take ine into ed Harry Lampson In preity sho was, nnd. very yin that I don't Tell be Me the business and"— » with me, was "You To Tom she was by far the most wo: : . : Still pro- . “The business I built up," snapped Papa says 1 verful person in ail the whole world, ° FOURINY ‘ing girl along by Dis father, “is not for ne'er-do-wells " And ono ovening he told hor ao, ike ve re," re- pelling ie ite ne Til tell dad t0 tear down. I take back that prom- ling you,” sug It Was during his senior year at the on, D scey noth» sheen force, If you aot atter youd You will leave the family you tarr : ive y. He had but three months you were wi \o. And you can have disgraced, I don’t want you un- utly denied nore $ After gy tion he n stalked angrily out of the been ordered reelf what dad will d¢m my roof another night.” F » himns AM wan te busi his fa- Peom, So sudder ho ‘emerge fleure Ot fon YOUreCle WHEt G&G, My While ‘Tom was miserably packing Ww uWays e MY ther; and, from the very beginning, that tho eave Harry lo then, : ean--so cow. hI8 few belongings a note was dellv- Soest us iy vive a salary that seemed Beareely time to ¢ 1 @ pore | "You wouldn't be ao moan=—id 6OW J to him, [t was from Marjorie t 1 Vee «It was or ev after his ta 0 came from collego , “Cut out salling me names! That's “bearost: ‘T'm @ coward, and [ to ha ‘ wughed Marjot \ om Ke him. into Just what 1'li dor Vil tell dade Sgr don't: suppose you can ever’ forgive a dele re n 1 the i iiled‘on Mase one word to clear th aay ip ino me, But you don't know what dad 8 » 7 ont we. As she Wa I'm not going to get in at at on’ is when he's in one of his rages. den t : nd inoved. Joris for ,] dia. a sides, Blako's BOC inane is nothing he wouldn't do if ho Harry ind Moshe seemed 5 i han found out Id disobeyed him. if ; q cet , vin ible an sho surrendered, fear couldn't help you, ‘Tom, 1 just could jeyele, Marg 4 ive wh. was end r v oad aa not. But there's something T can do. me you ak in his arms school or even to a convent if « ty town's two morning Ang T've done It. Uncle Roger ald 1 1 rv reuk u i (day contained lurid ace iy godfather, and he loves mo bet- cal th " n Wer see you with hig “MMS of what they termed a “stus {0% han any one else, I've just bean 1 would ’ naking Min ie’ to eGo you t riot.” and they added the Infor- ¢4 nim and told him all the whole 1 . . oO; eve h m sfon that Thomas Cowperthwaite story. ted " \ Phos Blake, a senior at the university, had "tie was splendid about it. He aald oe is ; ; M at releasing he 1 didn ne w And be n FINBIORC OR ene hh AT i help you both out. Send Tom ‘i ¢ dered Tom. Honestly didn't, [had 1 for sulting Officer Hutch, wane to pie and. fll give} ' spl all thou : ane Also that the Magistrate had taken Make to Rae Moat Rinteowatt ‘ 1 for ! 1p ue f ‘ at rath De Wr, chance in my own office, Since you ve ( \ if poetry quotations few 4 r ) she's youth and on his fain- hetieve in him, so will [. And in a by i tard Is and remar Ut angels and Liles evening, Would you eure 1 jigs social standing and had Jet him vege you'll be of age. ‘Then you can | . {le wiel ered out and paradise and all,” But when | you would | rth with @ suspended sentenee any one you want to. By that n pa Hf hovawey 1 id think of wa aL lee deg n vou | When ‘Tom, after a hideous scene at time, tf he's any good, he'll be making laus f er ie ml ov u—T love y , went to the university he found q marrying sulary. ‘Tell him to come | erry H irjorie Jiove you. 1 guess 84 n Nons to report at once at the and sea me to-morrow,’ Please go to } eae x " ve always Known it, Do-od b ¢ ff the institution's President. yim, Tom, It's our one chance.— j and F are anyt! n out me President's displeased inquiries Jfeartbrokenly. MARIORI v0 mark ick Ww f course, 1 he 1 1 from rom said “P. S.—T love you." fui 1 fd, her face hid chest, unive “ ta) BO 1 noting to do with the fight. ‘The next year was one of tireless lo 4 “You w r I've 1 ' fl g. 1 was the other side of the street work and steady ac’ ement for Tom | A 1 u I n Nn v le i] if aw it 1 trie wet an Blake. Hie more than justified the wee . ' 1 te 1 ' ft Poontance out® of dange And in hance’ that R r Lampson gave Blair : t q end 1 | was caught and ar iby b ing to his new Job a re 4 se en uy 1 ey 1 her Qu 4 1 ‘ we've got, % f you my word IT had no sistless onergy, enthusiasm aud adupt- HURSDAY, JUNE 156, 1916, (SGOETOBOEOS* 1B TY) BYR) BYE TBO 0Y 5 B/S G/B TLBLSYRYR)" BY BYS) BYE) BY) T) TYGLS) SLSR LGI6) 68 5) S) SIR BVRYS BY SLRYR/TVEVT)ET) S/BYRIRYE) T1515 B/SITACDNEE GEECTOOS TODO CGEM DECOOOECES BIORTCOCOOOPS An Interesting Series of Pathe Photoslays Now Being Presented at the Leading Motion in Greater New York. COCO ability that quickly Won his employ- ers appr \ Kht | was doing you a favor, ger Lampson Vone day, “in hiring young Blak But it was you who did me a favor by getting m n to Work for me. “He's motions this past year. And he's going to get a third and bigger raise next month.” xt moni?” echoed Sarjorie, “Why, that's June, The month of weddings.” “And the month of yo supplemented her uncle, "You'll be of ago the first of June, won't you? Well, take my advice—marry ‘Tom Blake that day, And I'll make your peace with your father afterward. Marjorie sped to Tom with this in- epired suggestion, And the wedding date was accordingly fixed for June 1, Tom, aglow with delight at the Prospect, and at the promise of a raise in pay, hurried back to the office after his lunch-time chat with Marjorie. It was a busy day, and, during the afternoon a detail of work arrived that had to be completed tn haste. ‘Tom at once volunteered to stay after hours to finish it. When the rest of the staff departed he bent over his desk, unweartedly tackling the overtime job. His heart was ght, his brain brilliantly activi He verily believed he was the hap- piest man in all America. One year ago he had been disgraced and cast out of his home, To-day he was @ success, was on the highroad to pro motion, and in three weeks was to marry the girl he adored. Smaii wonder he whistled gayly over his work! As be at last laid aside the com- pleted task and reached for his hat and coat he beard @ rap at the door of the outer office, Answering tho summons, he admitted James Sulll- van, @ customer of the firm, “Hello, Blake," the visitor greeted him, pulling a wallet from his pocket. “I sold my oar this evening for $850, Here it is. In fifties. Please ask Lampson to keep it on deposit here till L get back to town, in case he needs it to bolster up any of my margins. [ don't like the way C. G. & X. closed to-day, And J don't want to bo wiped out. This will more than cover any drop while I'm gone, I'm jeaving on the 10,30” “But,” objected Tom, “only Mr, Lampson and the cashier have the combination of the safe, What shall ido with this overniit? Where shall I put it?" “Oh, Just take personal care of it,” suggested Sullivan. “That's al! right You're as safe as a bank. Good night I'll have to bustle if I wan at 10.30 train." He was gone, leaving Tom looking down perplexedly at the fifty-do! bills his hand, Tom, after a mo- ment’s thought, went to the tele- phone and called up Roger Lainp- fon at the latter's house, telling his employer of Sullivan's deposit “Put {t somewhero for the night replied Lampson, “and turn it over to the cashier in the morning. Thanks, Just the same, for calling me up to Jet me know. ‘Tom opened a drawer of his then reconsidered, and decide money would be 8% in his own keeping. Office thefis were not un- common and there was always the danger of fire. So he took out a tone envelope, wrote his name and the firm's address on it, put the money tn the envelope, sealed it and placed it in the inside pocket of his vest. Then he locked the office and went out into the street, As ho emerged tnto the fresh air it suddenly occurred to him that he had eaten nothing since noon and that it was now after 10 o'clock, All at once he felt very hungry. He knew the dinner hour at his boarding ho! was long past and he did not care to vaste time and money by going out way to the district of the city the larger restaurants were Lopen. So he walked along, keep- « his eves open for the sign of some heap eating house on his homeward route. The hour was late and he was sleepy as well as hungry, so he took a short cut through a network of squalid streets to bring him to hig own boarding place. He had gone only a few blocks when he noticed on a curtained street window the sign: “Harding's cafe.” The window was not over-clean and the street was uninviting, But hun- ger ts eeldom fastidious, Tom entered and found himself tn a large and low- celled room, with bare tables scattered about and sawdust on the floor. birthday, A man with ragged whiskers was ° thumping an off-key melody out of a shabby upright piano in one corner. At several of the tables men sat e ing or drinking. There were one or two women tn the plo At @ far table sat a half dozen young men who were making not a little noise over their drinks and who had evidently dropped in at Harding's during a slumming tour. ‘Tom, with no great pleasure, noticed Harry Lampson among them. ‘Not wishing to meet Harry, or any of the latter's friends, and not at ail liking the aspect of the place itself. Tom crossed to an alcove near the door, partly screened from the main room. There he sat down at the al- cove's single table and rang for a walter. josing @ moal from the Mat dis played on the greasy and much- thumbed menu, he gave his order and sat back to wait, He was mildly ritated to find himself in a resort #0 evidently savoring of the underworld At best, he did not care for such places. And now, with another man money in his pocket, he liked his doubtful surroundings still Ve was half minded to get out at one But he was very hungry. And, on second thought, he resolved to wait for his supper, Tizate Relsen was a lady who live by her wits. And s! wits to live by, She did not her patronymic, and early in her he tie career she had changed it to “Lu- lotte Fortescue.” But an unapprec tlve police to had renamed her “Ldght-Pingered Liz." Lizzie bad left Boston in consider- able haste, as a result of a depart ment store pickpocket scandal, And ni with the aforesaid unapprecia tive’ police force searching diligently for her, sho had decided to bury her self for a few weeks in this more or less secluded university town, where she had friends she could count on to shelter her. She had arrived in town an hour earlier and {na villainousiy bad tem per. For on the train a fellow pick- pocket had been so olttrageously un professional a# to steal her wristbag by means of the simple old “razor trick.” Aud the wristhag had eon tained every dollar she had in the world Gulded by memories of other daye, ) TOUTES ® Novelization By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow BeOOREEM oe ae GOCCP eee WOME De 6OGO6E “A lie? muttered Tom half aloud. ‘Yes, the whole world is a world of lie It’s a world I'm tired of, a world that has cast me out. There's nothing left. Nothing. My parents, my work, my sweetheart all gone. =e -} oe He plunged forward and the greedy waters seized his body in their swift embrace. Arr, Liz came straight to Harding's cafe. Next It had been a favorite resort of hers neared thi in her apprentice years when she had him and they entered t % been content to an occamonal ‘LE put that Sullivan money in the stickpin or cheap watch, Harding, top drawer of my desk last night,” she knew, would lend her enough Tom was saying as they went in, “and money, 2 Reap her golng for avn locked it, .f hope [ did right? It Liz entered the main room o' seemed safor than to carry It around cafe and glanced around with a seem- with me. I—whacs tho matter?” he ing carelessness which, none the less, broke oft in loud-volced diemay. took in every detail and every patron "A group of employees were stan ag I oa ai eae ae Gaunue ing In the centre of the room, start that promised to be Interesting. Bent, nvoe WrouEnt on the previews At an alcove table sat a well-dressed hg) / young man in front of whom a walter «y Somebody's Broke in. hare was Just then setting a cup of coffee, Mover. “Some aig Lato! a small steak and a “bird-bath" of BIOier ne One got in Inst KIBET Te ital Gan OE ro eres intarcet tear Tom With ‘a iim of apprehend ry Itself was of no great Interest. BUt ran ‘ty iia deck, PFSHSRS eR something elsa was, ‘ i" Sorat ‘As the waiter leaned over him, Liz ihe oe sie he shouted as he surveyed saw the young man raise his hand te wreckage. ie Sullivan money's nervously toward ono side of his vest, FONT! yt put it in this top drawer as if guarding something In a pocket j/0'+ Mr. Lanps The drawer has there or else to make certain it was jen forced! Oh, why didn't T keep nes bene. 18 cash in my own p morning as Roger Lampson office Tom caught up with he ‘That tip was quite enough for Light. !t UP to you, sir, back, Fingered Liz, Perhaps she might not Week by week, out salary. have to borrow money from Harding, !l! after all, She crossed to the alcove Mg “ she said, politely. deay boy,” fl sit here? The outer son, touched of the sort, my itradic Roger Lamp- 0 the heart by Tom's 1 00 Oy aur fait was no fault of your's, t— ised, Dut not knowing what else (0 ace you, sire’ reported ieee tore to And he went on with bis meal. ushering : pride a Woode The girl picked up the menu and clothes detective oe n faced plain- studied it. But fingers seemed to. to Lampson and Tom wee be awkward, For the y standing a Tom were rd fall to the fi t struc "Good!" approved t. Was going to phone Tom's Dur He stooped to pick it up x the fraction of a second tl om. + cer, has your visit any his head was below the table edge this pobbes anything to do Liz's hand shot forward with unt agen wiftn tropped somethin bg : ne plain. to see a man urn free, and r own lap. unt to Shi qui auked Tom as he gave her th a bacl ta 2 adare rescued menu and paid no further j, 7.48 Thomas Hlake," put in Tom heed to him—just then, ane are WE idden undefined * hungry youth devoted his 4'ttd h you want? whole attention to his greasy pota the needn K 80 * mata toes, his tough steak and to his un- etive, grinni 's ain't Ny eid colle The co! s- 4 pinch, ood news ou We liy displeased him. [it had a vile 80t 4n alarm from: Bost: st eve- it Was almost bitter, in spite Min’ to look out for a woman crook of the extra sugar he put in But ame Lizzie {xen ht-Fin- fe Was thitsty as Well as famished, wered Lig” we call her. Oneugeee And he made 4 clean job of the unup- 2 just happened to nab her as sha hug meal . Was comin’ out of Harding's Jotnt reflected, as he Anished, what We searched her at Headauateng sant eife ven vad suppe Ve on a man's system, He had been tired, pervous, ill ¢ Now he had @ sense of well-being, 0} drowsy ent, of peace Ww the whol Presently he wo start home. But for the moment tt d Was wondrously agreeable to lean torn opmy, Aye ye nyelope liad been back in his seat and res Of it @ wheat of savantenn Genie The room seemed to grow darker, Cae OokM le seventeen $50 bile da delicious sleepine Rte case, oe ‘ went on, Geashroree him, Five a DADs ganren te eye, ber & taste of the third surely, would do him 1 fee tl ahie taliced. | She says yo And now the woman across the ae at ae that you ant he le was speaking to him, He could inkin’ together at Harding's ) What she said; but her vo hight an’ she iifted this from 4, Now she was coming before you had a chance to his own side of tho 1 it on any one else." hat her arm around his shoul. Five minutes later Roger Lamp- Au’ we found—this out @ long Pon's own Thom npson & oF as saying, with genuin Ser on \ 1 a 6 sorrow Torn Blake was aware of @ racking ‘bis votes headach ankly bad taste in his "I'm not going to prosecute, Blake. moutt © of nausea, He sat up But you've proved yo and t He—yes, ho must have « thief but the most been fast asleep. For the hands on liar I ever 6 clock over the bur pointed to 1.39, 1 cannot employ you any longer. And The woman no ionger there, my sense of fairness will force me to Neither Were Harry's group of slum- warn any future employer of yours mers. Tom got up fe very sick that you are a dangerous crook.” And made for the street. As he ‘Tom walked, dazedly, out of the turned homeward through ihe d office, His Heart was dead. His ness he wondered if the clock had splendid prospects, his chanoe ot registel 1.30 or only His employment, his | self-respect, all hand went to his watch pocket, were gone. Nothing remained for him Hig watch was gone, So Was his in lite, but Marjorie. Ile must Bo to chain, And his vest was uabuttoned, r now—at once; tell her everything His fingers flew to the Inside pocket. and trust to her love to make ber it was empty. aan Shiah stand by him, eu ery, like tha , we tone fhe! deing, burst trom (That was bis one hope. And, with Tom's dry lps. For an instant atl Marler is side he could face a ore ay ein crazily about him, Whole disapproving world, Marjorte, nen suddenly the shock cl {ft was what counted most In of t drug-mists, And ife. She was his future—his hope urself not only conscienceless © bad luck to meet. ch ny NAA od his heaven Fae ee Atha the. Poke the outer door of the butlding headache, the dryness of mouth, the @ ssenger boy halted him, nausea, Yes, and he knew why the woman had come around to his side of the table tter for you, Mr, Blake,” sata recognized Mar m, With a th yhat Was to be done? And. from writing the envelope, In sone haute. “aonpolanes.. anhalt hour of direst need, here was @ long hi fo eee sctlan an rd of ch from her! He tore me Me ae tt anacthing he ‘Harry las just told me. An@ 1 he tru! never Want to see or hear of you croitd belleve he had gone to again, He snys—and two of ‘hia frends corroborate him—that he torious slumming r W saw you ast night tn asim pes urant—with a woman, When they the ploce her arm wos around and your 1 was on her shoul- nan, with whom no dealing him without hi Teovld have forgiven anything but preposterous. Mt. You have broken my heart f Dad and Harry hove told me atl along h sick resentrr ‘ ne man vow are. bat Ty rath all my ‘ nountil now it tw into trouble by doing It. Tt do , pay. From the time T was a daly lo vy explain, Tt is time T told Majorie’s father un what about our. engagen \ You ' id been punish ‘ 5 ; the girl whe trusted ruth-telling, T've had enough of it, Yow (loodby | My whole Iifo's happiness is at stak I'm not going to be cheatad our of Hlered ‘t RRIPaiRina hing that isn't my fault i 1 MW » that money, every cent of it , 1 of A and pay it back an pen, I'm 1 Ther : ng to losa my chance or my Mv parents rt. Here goes ny first atl wane lie’ Honless Retracing his steps, he made for the emy oMee and stealthily. let himself in > pin with his key. ing straig to his rsh . own desk, he locked every wer in {t; then, with a chisel broke all the mueh for me ‘ locks, Too mich whe the truth, far ‘ After which he strewed papers foo much when FE oturned tram: the about the floor and left the top [rut Wy * drawer wide open. He performed the — He plun nd the greedy sama feat with three other desks, Wilers seize " swift Then he went home, leaving the of- embrace fice’s outer door unlocked (And of Seventh Story.) THE EIGHTH EPISODE IN THE SERIAL ‘WHO’S GUILTY” Will Be Published THURSDAY, June 22