Show D BOYS ARE GUILTY Clyde Felts Felt's mother is heartbroken over the sad p plight of ot her son U lI Her r careworn face eyes ees reddened with weeping and attitude of dejection speak her sorrow more than words can doI doI doI do I dont don't know what to say I I. dont don't know what I 1 do think about it I 1 cant can't understand it she said today Clyde Clydes Is s only 14 14 just 14 Just passed his birthday He has always been a g good od boy hot t so affectionate and demonstrative as his younger brother but always good and obedient And now to think of ot his being a a. party to this Oh it Is too horrible too oo horrible I 1 cannot realize it Did Not Suspect HimI Him I never had the faintest suspicion that hat there was anything bad about the theold theold theold old man continued Mrs Felt I knew he was an old gossip but thought he was nothing nothing worse If Jf I or I-or or 01 his father tather bad had ever dreamed the truth of ot this monstrous monstrous mon mon- story that the doctors and the he boys are are telling we would never have let et Clyde go near him But I trusted th he the old man I 1 thought it was better betterto betterto to to o have Clyde with him than in company company com corn pany with the Potts and Johnson boy and others of the Hot Springs gang Wanted to Go Away But I 1 can see now how ow that Clyde must have feared the old man and wanted to get away from rom him A few weeks ago he ie begged so hard to be allowed to go godown godown godown down to Manti Maniti antI 1 where te Mr Felts Felt's brother lives but we told him he not go Until his school was out Oh I wish we we had nad let him go It would have kept us out of all this Clyde did not like to miss his ls school he was always deeply Interested in his work but hilt I can see now that he wanted to get away from Collins I cant can't realIze realize realize real- real ize the horrible things they say about the man man and yet and yet I know it must be so I cant can't read what the pa papers papers- ers say It kill kills me to see his there she sobbed J More to Be Told I do not think he has told It all yet she said choking back the sobs The Theother Theother Theother other boys were there and knew about It but Clyde has been reading th those se evil stories and thinks It noble to bear all the blame Clyde was always truthful I 1 never knew him to lie never lie never in all aU his life life life- but I think he was was frightened at first so that he could not tell the truth I Change in His Conduct I During the past week he has not seemed just like himself he has been more quiet more kind and considerate to me roe and nd seemed pale and had but little appetite But there was nothing about his actions that aroused my my suspicions suspicions suspicions sus sus- of the truth O 0 I 1 cant can't think about It It I 1 cant can't talk any more about It It seems that that all our labors to bring our boy up right have amounted to toI nothing nothing- she moaned while the tears I I ran down her cheeks checks |