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Show THE 18 nN" ven, in the be the may t he seh i toward n Ra Kid ttled fi 1at- Which was one of Phe Kid having whil R well was jown r t the t po! t I H effected ild t nal) hay ri a lone k a its natural i 8 I ighted th that this his teamstey received among t Kagswell 1 prote in only d Was f t change i !, paid without e other Rag he Kid was Of the last of bee at and 1 la rly lin Wi th true ] Nobody outside of ra m me, t t bu t ht from the girl I 1 r } t mothe But The Kid wag detail What d B int 1 k d come blunt 1 yu at } had I t i nex CAMO ° } @ It was ly heape i And to } the t next jay for 1 the 1] : of the police Kid raised it than ymme made Min ullen face er she had threatened him with the police I could tell ‘em something, | think,'' was one of challenges. Perhaps she could, though The Kid had kept good many things from her which he thought might only worry her. Perhaps she could tell if she wanted to-the thing The Kid could not understand was why she ever thought of wanting to Would he open his mouth If She were wanted for anything? Couldn't they cut his tongue out before he would let out a possible squeal' against her? These. tantrums of Min's worried The Kid When they broke out In all virulence he was in worse than a world without friends he was in a world where all were enemies and where I ng life was not wo ar dad to understand, but so were Women were dogs Once when Min had pushed him to the Mmit and when her cold blooded threats against him had driven him to desperation, he had seized her, blindly without knowing just what he meant to do in punishment And there The Kid own pet and petted bull te rier had struck } teet n The Kid's leg-and as Ths Kid later described It, " for keeps." ever before in thel could { : { l 1 l } Zé W iance ; t K t of to i I | 7 ; gain net the interests ir d brute of of law wo! streng! of anda w nd was a man cae of lex iraw na 1 Min, to little it? a4 HARVEST he police the ever small ompelled I mig i Also pickings of to to turn ve ‘ hin h there { J debauel that a be expected a multitude stormy of ca have it tured-who was the third? 8s } But The Kid was dumb-dumb as the other sesop proved later as he recovered rapidly from a bullet through his shoulder Men may turn upon their fel- prompted holdup ts f‘as:a him have to a 1@ bartender mig) i leep off t stove I the fact dough 1 And good a ht mask would Iriving at ltud v 109 wa crime A ght I i lows of Mee in the shady lines criminal who of business die who at not the » it time Ca was task masked io § yul Frequently find A ll those id sm who have " it there with are typ their mouths ¢ the wont said ishes it \"s harde the first, and har nan it ¥ Was prognosis of the things Don't about rieve me M love m but take for comes. Your Loving KID. would like P. Ss. Telegraph my wife that I to her before I die But that night, while poli officer watched as a ait of form, dozing from a shadowed seat near the wall of the crowded surgical ward, he wag aroused , flu 7 tl ittenda Screens re ¢ wn hastily around the bed The head nurse and an Interne were called and cam But it was with no purpose of aid It wag the ist line in the life chapter In the last watch of the night the illen spirit of Phe WKid assed oul and on-somewhere ee or murder I find the secon it may be harde police to find the se 5 th case in hand. Why? The Kid we Maxwell street stirred itself, but to no purpose It was to be exy ], perhaps that The Kid's parents should sho igiiness Of attitude toward questionings Because of pre sus experier the father ind the mother were asked to report at the station for the possible moral effect Bu the officers who called upon Min's mother were not prepared for the change In her tlve for them, elaborated and high pitched; then sullen silence It was significant to them onl that inqulr in the district showed that visitor at the Ragswell house ghe was an o is) I Weeks later t he police, studying other holdups and other descriptions that were not descriptions, struck the trall of Kid t was not easy, but it was a trail and it wa lowed day after day Somebody, somewhere, and In me way however willingly or unwilly or unwittingly-lends ald to a police hunt that Is to day ad a favor » ask d around him to my sweetheart \ penell and a block of paper were brought yken by spasms oO most unendurahle p i Th Kid explained that there was nothing to it. so far 4s i clew might go It a letter to a little girl of ming hat's all.' But the police officer close to the bedde took the address and the messagt Dear L J lov you as always dald This i the last of me, I guess I hope you will think the ame of me that you always did I am sorry to bring you all this trouble. I tried to be good but 1 way hounded, as you know J am terribly hurt by s THE iz But every clos hut. The Kid did He police, however, as they sto ‘Somebody take a letter nmo the might register the ingt was aloon him; ind allow ose to the saloon to nigh it treets, the uurtured ing slowly The police ambulance made a run for it wh wo b to seem It pital | eurest » th to somebody, somewhere, to try to saye a m in's life for the hangman's noose. But the surgeons failed in this and they saw it Stimulants were given 4n ord that the police might question with a chance of answer The confederate In the house had been cap- you rate making a warm saloon less repugnant than ever it vas to yb Wanderer, two en } an ippeared at th front tra e of a saloon I he Desplalr street d just 1 her masked accompli Ly peared at tl j Hands up was tl hallenge, fror ind rear ind one of the tria had advanced into the room with rs volver drawn when ti bartender dropped behind the bar and rose In an Instant, firing But It was an uneven fight Thr well almed shots to his one wild, desperate effort with an ur famillar weapon was sulcidal at the beat Hyat wi the three desperadoes, with the contents of th isl drawer, @rok iway Into t ilgl ind storm, the in of murder had bes left be it n Within an ho 00 po 1 Ch go knew of he t a th I t I j t be nelted 1 ¢ 5! id ! i 17 Kid looked 1 | il ! shay & at lé wlth man One SOWING. I to that, was = iph mee 98h disposition a8 4 defender. of the brute es sh See and build slight her of because him me . igh and o¢ easionally smoking and drinking, further an ne mu was with the police, a brush ing i . i | s ra s for attitude admiring her delighted him half so much 4s nk of whi emoked a cigaret and § judgment of "She's a top notcher she as small could 4 difficult I ‘ life home the W tho it ee th ‘ 4 to man oung fol street Maxwell find pla "9 ild | rhe admit } yung girl whom irinking nd | t ¢ ymuld meet he where enough e not t But would they when smoking ind ia 8 r Plum! Ju th here Just Min for jlaces w Kid | I ¢ means the became i izue at ' ' cares he when ant 48815 plumbers , M ¢ and lj fh ga nelghborha at a held dances h lt dance the recognized had street well a oe fair favor ee I and Min's Two natures such a8 i ay i m of physical and because rbtle ) wart situatio the environment r mo and ver 1 u j f fac ind frame t to that wonder td her esented nat work, stickup nett have g effects of the 1k i ‘ w a t find I will Except the | osopt p withape, sold K olut } THE all saloon victim un . ] rt sh Min's big i w ) i all "Tove a things hen t Min } wel r \ at hor s Mor pol 1. i rel street But } t mt at ea ld 1 [ t i hist Kid. 7 with in It was bad wint« In Ch £0 The times were hard Charitable inst itions h been taxed early in the season nd the unemployed ranks were swelled daily by the established hous ind employers generally turning out employés 1 the. efforts to decry se ex penses Incidentally. the treets of Chicago at night were dangerou * Stickup n the streets were one of the expected t i him it { } t Maxwell tigress drink bitterer THE if i } probl houlder } in deep The social What st 1 ial t p t her could not see Her mrother tak had mother at the a punch Take hands Max- d ym id i t choo The Kid perhaps that his | t 1 ‘had He intercep to the the S H 1 word! could was with a of sneak thieving was proved of the five young fellows, a clean bill. of Th parent I 1 \ { [ protested going released basement of wit! nd while perhaps no kick had st couldn't a m in? butting some It was he Min charge than of mos m fe her Wher is unnight he re But £ mere habit Th r. } Maxwell { J i nd in I Ro little ger The i t wh nother was tedious cour lack from heans ww bu ntertfer he Kld the doesn't tudied together on The while the door Min had f th ier? What did I th t . da v snip of a booby little tonholes!' from t Kid flung himself The and day next the night and that to family Ragswell to the known t ent and sullen urned, l 1a dowr hard to po tt troubled had Kid him that take shyly BETECC) Kid willi was all The Kid's experience in Min came to the Ragswell had 7 been at home as t That Kid a schoo blus the bittere of that day when f i " Tir t mother had he was wholly ever bout books Nobody ever read them Dad had got along without them iiven Min was with him In the idea-Min's mother couldn't have read a lne in the newspaper if she had wanted to. Min went to school but she didn't Iike it t 8 the use? And Min? Min was the one feature of The Kid's school Ife that saved him to it from n open rebellion She was the stuff, all right Sh was a looker from way back Nothing in 15 cent audeville or 60 cent melodrama could touch her She knew a thing or two and she knew she knew it And Min always had said: ‘Aw-cut t the school-for me!" But The Kid's father had been against it all along He didn't explain why-perhaps he didn't know why himself-but he wouldn't have explained, anyhow He didn't belleve in explanations. All this was bad for The Kid He couldn't have wanted to stay at home, crowded and dark and wrangling as it was And Min was with him against the petty diseipline and straitiaced unintelligibllity of school What was a boy to do? Halsted street by day had meaning By night jt had a charm of lights, people, ac tion. Min was a peach; she ought to know When The Kid finally balked at things the father had the same recourse that he had with his horses He went for the whip It was true that no whip ever had started a balked horse for the teamster, but it was the thing for a balky boy When the whip had falled on The Kid, unmistakably, The Kid had all the evil in him awake. He had grinned stoically and taken the lash, thinking of Min And Min, listening to the story of it, had opened her blue eyes wide in admiration When she asked if it had hurt the shrug of a square, thick shoulder had been the answer, and her admiration deepened When The Kid thought of how she would have wilted under It he laughed polsterously Queer"sh0t Ah. She was about as big as a minute, but there was not another chum of his, blgger than himself, who took the interest in one of The Kid's scraps that Min always took The Kid loved to watch the fire come into her blue eyes as he told her of a mixup with some boy bully or told in detall of some scrape in which he and his chums had dodged the copper on the corner rhaps on } there il i issorted sizes start in chool. In ty Rag ell had not ti Broggery around the ome off was Ragsweil dism al of the ibject, grum One friends f juently go too far Two m bable in th house in the next three } ears ad be sun to stir even The Kidsto protest From a cottage rear to tenement fifth floor. to cottage base ment rear, to tenement agalin nd ir hese moves to read babies as the cause-sha]l one wonder at The Kid's resentmer Hie was there first What was the use? The Kid wa 1 the grammar grade at school Not is when home Aw Mir Or d There we in the house bef for recogr bought even corner will time. g0 away, coming back when he thought the -storm should be over, perhaps to find her hysterical and in tears at his long absence. Or, if he found her tigerish still, he would disappear again for another period of probation But more than this The Kid did not understand When the Litthe Woman was In the height of her an- t m WSs econ ak \ I lyingin n a fict posed f« ide r ‘ r « well not father be MADE consistently and intelligently carried on One day the ‘police found the line on The Kid. He was in a house that never had been quite free of suspicion, He was thought to be In hiding there with at least one of his possible confederates. Whether alone, or with two of them, or with three of them the department expected a fight. Half a dozen picked men went after The Kid, heavily armed. He was in the house without mistake. So was one of the other suspects, In plain clothes two of the officers appeared in the alley behind the house Two others were just across the street in front, talking casually, when the other two came to the front door. Ags the door opened guardedly, the two pushed Inside. A moment later the sound of a shot came from the house; then two shots In sharp succession-half a dozen shots-and then a _ fusillade beyond count Front and rear the police outside closed in. One detective lying on the floor, dying; -another, badly hit, was fighting hand to hand with the two desperadoes. when, at sight of reinforcements, the two murderers broke away toward the alley entrance, firing point blank, but wildly One officer's revolver failed to, work; the shots from the other's weapon were Ineffectual The dash for liberty, however, was sucgessful. Within half an hour The Kid was in custody It was under striking circumstances, even to the police who knew The Kid best. He had stepped from a car platform, minutes after the passengers inside had been uttracted to his pain drawn face. He had explained to them that he was tll and had stepped to the platform with the motorman for air. There the motorman had asked what the matter was. Still the drawn face smiled-it was nothing but a passing illness. But when the passenger showed signs of unmistakable collapse, the car was stopped and the conductor assisted the protesting man to a drug store. It was The Kid, shot through and through and dy- RIPENING. money for the rent, not infrequently to be forced to move for the reason that the police looked in too often and systematically for the landlord or his other tenants And The Kid had never understood Min From: a little purring woman, with her arms around his neck, she could become an insane tigress at a word. Get away from me and stay away." "I hate you! For him to say anything was useless. He would inother 1 h d ter pol é he ea rea been born in th Sleeping off Maxwell street coast it I Lutonomou his the 8 Cr Th be street district may »€ almost ousehold In point of cause, know and the possible penalty never h pr my to in Maxwell police saved lrunker was police ARE The Kid and Min were fairly happy--or whatever words ought to go with the condition, It was Min who had suggested as a radical moye that they go away from the police of Chicago altogether-to get away from the environment But when The Kid had argued the uselessness of it, she gave in. Still there were hardships in moving because of rents that were due and which could not had been ‘known the full sense as the phrase applies in Maxwell street and t the station His mother that was to be with blackened eye or with body brulsed by heavy shoes, had effected the iIntroductions After which a fine paid in cash or in bridewell labor-had been the pen- This, that the CRIMINALS THE PLOWING. father to HOW 2 "Ne KID AND Mi as TARES Somewhere in Chicago timosat anywhere S oO¢ sion offer there ts a little woman of the blonde ineing type of face and figure, but with a tigre eye tor the police She has lost much that at one time would have been considered beauty But the spirit of rder her She borhood, Dy £ @ [| It is | trong eve ' Ww I may be almost anywhere in a likely nelghbut alwes h r mpanion is counted upon 1 e as a "bad man." Min, and with her, making a common Luge : i i and all d ent things, is the SW heart, Lil, Min was willing to forget, for th: other had her ympathies Lil could try to forget, for The Kid wa lead Both women long ago were con igned to a certain police bound district on the South side No; this is not a fiction Story as was announce "d in the beginning Do you wonder that it is ue? Or- thinking it over-would ye 94 not wonder rather that it could be other than true? But if you doubt it ZO over into tl é Maxwell street district and wait for another one, in all material respect just like this one |