Show dUD GEI The famous KESTER J t spit pU The Betta Company I CHAPTER I the The Judge Falls Heavily hour our late p loes loe's s black boy boj PO pie If to the Judge He Ife came camen cameI I n a a. gift gilt and the gift appropriately was a square aquaro case bottle of ot re re- tab table lable o size eize The Judge was greatly cc cd by bv thi attention but he began akin a a. temperate use ot of the keepers m s offering then as the for for- or- or Ible big nt he was s preparing a g took nt J bren rUhl his hand l he more and more that feeling of Spartan fortitude at first sustained him in tn the thence flee nce of temptation He lie wrote and dUn complete a and d quiet luxury and tat at last he had exhausted the Ion eon of the bottle it occurred to him would Itt t be only proper personally Ills his thanks to Perhaps ni g ebY r i uninspired in this by ulterior I resources lif so st they O of 1 t the were r t lr lt richly I Tavern Ta rewarded er were fenly ply placed at his disposal lie He at att at- at t ted d' d this to a arl variety ty of ot causes all alland and nd 3 nt but the real reason sUI suggested I itself 1311 f Indeed It WAS sas Of ofa a perfIdious nature that the Judge jude and land generous minded could not grasped It clock lit lie was as undeniably drunk still depths deeper lelas oi with only the most con- con emorY of impending events at pe and ind was WS borne upstairs by byI I nd hl UK hIs tola K bo boy hoy to a remote be bein l t In th in hen wing Here he and put to bed bcd and the It nl pp making a bundle of his hisa tal a 14 retired from rom the room locking r after aU 1 Il im and the judge was as prisoner sma- sma dream dream- ising IS tit at last from a heavy cop tile the was a aware ware of a a. faint pable bl light in his room the ashen of oC a 8 dull October dawn He lie was wa of f a feeling o of profound o n de de- de 00 oo 71 J kan on ooH He Un ke w this was the after after- ft PC indi e and that he might hours of utter orward orvard to foi fOlt eight Jbf f C soul and groaning aloud he hI hIs ht e eys Sleep was the thing thins If lid Id compas compa it Instead his mem- mem Something was to hap- hap Lt l' l 1 f could not recall what fi 0 o he h though he distinctly r re of Jered 4 that had spoken 1 If t rr ma mae to 1 the austere disembodied eon con the ei Implacable I whose hOl fealty to dut duty had some some- W V. V H ed ved cd 1 ht hiM is own spiritual ruin so soad 1 ad d o i a s sort lort of moral sign sign- sign et never x r pointing the thc way yet d t or u sa ls la la till Still and thought deeply Itself What That was I ht In 0 no 1 had bad ad he was to do dop doI I J uP p TIP Th ty t ry thour hour accented his 9 n ns Probably It u was as no more than series obligation obligation- to be met or eI been so con con- not lot han ha 1 1 n bout hout u n U. U E jj t rn he nc decided d 1 n bout hout u n U. U E jj t rn nc T- T thing to Mahaffy He lie spoke Sits Sits' a name weakly and in a but r Ived no answer man 1 IP io repeat repeated and shifting look 3 at what should have i direction of the shakedown bed Neither the bed nor noi i tl thre The Judge gasped red if it this were not a pro pre of 11 n Hallucinations t to as not a Then all v and at Boggs something of how Bf had ben iven spent and a spasm 1 im tm arc d other io tO think of This a r happen heppen again he told him him- B ir Doubtless aj wide a aKe now had put him to bed Well Vell that of he he would I id set tho Dim the Cit CR Ta should hm his patronage It would ething for to boa boast t of that t Price always i ilg headquarters when in Feeling 15 that he lie had already td wealth i and on the tC the Judge thrust his p T cr oter the side of his bed and andr r Stooping he reached for his hisa I confidently expected to 10 find a lie be fool but his ham bid n waste The judge 2 iiii lundly astonished uc I e got em em on I don dont t re- re cat Ing them off he ie thought hope hope- le uni in the dl- dl t. t the window where the light him tint Mi his own bare extremities to his hlf original idea that his tte scattered about the tue floor I K to experience a great it wet was two miles to Boggi Bogge tr s be there at sunup Jie Abandoned te his hie quest of the anti anil turned to the door hat he was amazed when he I kie would ha bayS most made made- ifO jj liI his emotions Breath Breath- iv fell ba hack k a step or two and andall tall all the vigor he hi could muster till boL at the door it re- re ted on the other side he be rout mut he full of K pert per perta a caling Itself to lila mind He lie was bl 1 TIC was a plot to discredit him had been inspIred by for or was Fentress' Fentress ten ten- attacked the door he hebe he- he be to 0 force it Ti hut h had id done clone his ii ft o roll ell for that end at last less hit HIP mads' mads e of his bed to lon consider lder tle lie was without clothes clothel and S be T By prisoner yet vet his mind rose iose to meet the hip difficulties that it it Hl Ills ites artl were i r what wha appeared to be onh a i i Kt despair He armed himself legged stool he had found Ies I once more to the door hut but I planks stood firm under his t bIf bIfI I 11 feet stet out of f b here rl in time Im Tnt a t 1 thought ht the f AfF f Af- fentrees F entrees will wl refuse i to In me meat t nd next tn engaged a ld his a atten- atten ra et t too ton had taken the fasten but a single savage 8 t the l lII II tool stool shattered glass and an ep p that t dawn he s Ter The jud judee e shook his WI head I wehe 1 feet t V nr or nr r more to the 0 drop for a a. gentleman of t J and nd build The Judge judICE ronaldI ronald ronald- I kin king a rope of hi his bedding end and U himself lf to the by means to ha h have read of l nUWt at Interesting French prison II ila who ho did this however an lI but bill munch much more simple us f bedding occurred or d to hint him It Itu iti i un git u a II soft Mt anti and yIelding viewing sub sub- f to alight TT He Tie gathered I i a lila hlll aims alms feather father tick and all au 1 ed Id II it through the window then lien L led out across arro th the led ledge feet II t I IP Io himself to the th full JI a Ns Jils arms arm dropped I I led Id I'd Quare on the tilt rolled up imp bed ri that lat shook him to his hili center renter ily II he Ill snatched hed up IlP a 8 quilt amp amp- out hint him after the manner of or if a R. ga and thus thull Ii lightly lighth Jh th habited W ta ross cross Mr lr truck patch hought thought Boggs Bogga and anti the sun lIun It 9 ue ie t served no purpose to tn have if bine Ince his entire nUre wardrobe ex Ox- Ox A he shirt on his ba back k wa was in the fhe thet r t fevers fever's P r possession besides he l leI I to lose for the sunn sun 1 n pg nA at him over o the horl horizon on Jed he gained the edge of the dof j Fth h highroad that led P Pi past pastI I i d stole a 8 fearful plane Flanc over 1 ii tt I er r The sun rUn was clear of the e could even ff feel the lifeless warm beneath his feet an and andI I the tle t nuit closer about him he hea a a. labored run wenty minutes later latr Boggs' Boggs He re experienced a mo mo- doubtless Fentress Fentres had and I rt gone one It was m a. a hideous n Pd time tile judge cr groaned ThAn er r C fn an end l r t r the meadow near the c d several men Fen treas re s and his friends beyond question u. u The judge laughed d aloud In spite of every he was keeping his engage engage- mont ment he was plucking his triumph out of f the very dregs of failure The thre himself o over oer er the fence a corner of if the quilt caught on one of the rails I it ie turned to release it It and in that in infant In- In fant two pistol shots ran rang out sharply In n the morning air To be continued |