Show EVELYN THAW JOKES AND LAUGHS LIKE LIE ACHILD A ACHILD ACHILD CHILD DURI DURING G TRIAL Dorothy Durothy Dix Dx writing of the Thaw trial The other tiny day ay I spent a apart apart apart part of my time timo staring staring amid and staring staring- at itt 1 elyn Thaw for Evelyn just tho the sheer do 1 li ht it ol ce I light ot or at ul a D creature so 50 exquisitely ex cx- beautiful Presently I caught her eyes es and Dd smiled involuntarily as na one docs does at sight of a R l lovely child She smiled back the quick k spontaneous good fellor fellow fel- fel low r Io smi smile that springs 1 so readily to her lp lips I J grinned my flattered recognition She Sho grinned back I 1 nodded Shew She w wagged her little brown n head hrad in sym sympathy sm pathy and telepathic communication t 0 was established H ii I r wa wager er I said to the tho man iian siOn sitting beside me 1 that she he would like to be beAi Ai sitting ov over r here with wih us iu in the newspaper newspaper news news- paper lox bov making comments comment on the thin scone tImings things 8 and go gossiping and ant saying funny Lets Lct's ask ak her ho he responded t and at tho be beginning Of the noon recess we wo did dd HH lawyers r opened a R tiny tin crack inthe in the tho jealously guarded door th that t leads Into Into in into In- In to the tho witness room sot ot apart fon fol tho limo Thaw family and we found little Mrs Mr Thaw leaning a against ain t tho the wall nall wal waiting for t us mis and looking in her little lulo simple frock and ant white collar COnal more macro like like- lk a school girl irl than ever Curiously enough except enough except h-except except that you have only to watch her to sec see that her mind is is as aa open to every impression as asa asa a sensitized plate plate her greeting answered answered an an- our I I was wishing I she ilie Mi said wi wistfully that I could sit over o there with you on omi and hear what you 3 are ue all al talk talking about You Von seem to have 8 such good ng times Its It's Is lonesome where I am nm Her Tier tone was wa that of an a aggrieved gried d child who is cut out put of the tho game aJo and can cant can't t pIa play with mth its is fellows She was lonesome She wanted anted somebody to talk to somebody to whisper to somebody to catch the swift it 8 point Joint 01 of the witty and cynical little comments comment that flashed into her er ncr mind min at every eyen turn tur of the tho days day's doin doings 3 She do doesn't find that some one in the stony stony faced brother in law nor the tho lookin looking sister-in- sister law who bear her company That is a I companionship enforced e so 80 o plain that I one OM can see gee tho the very ry icicles hanging I from I it iI i. i I wish I said that you Toul would show us s some somo mc of the tue caricatures yon you drew of us UI during the last trial I hear thor thov were enormously clever dever Oh I J tore them all al up up she cried with wib a lau laugh b and Bho's she's got ot tho the n nicest laugh auh the jolliest merriest most roost hearted whole vb hearted c-hearted laugh h you over heard When the they barred mo me out of the thin courtroom and I had to wait wai out here and she gave c a a comprehensive e s sweep seep of her hand aroun around the time bare yellow walled witness t ro room 1 with wih its is hard had chairs chair and ana long long official looking table I amused myself drawing funn funny pictures of the I people in the courtroom but I burnt burt I them all al up I was RO so afraid durin during thelast thelast the tho last trial that T r would do something to to injure the case that I scarcely breathed That was a clever ele caricature you s-on ou drew of yourself yourself I ventured for v Ev Evelyn's Evelyns Ev- Ev elyn's clyn's wit i is is of a kind that does not spare spare her own peculiarities and she sho has given en to one 0 or of the artists artist a deliciously g funny little picture she had drawn of herself as a a maiden all al forlorn The rho brown eyes eJes that are all aU amber lights and flashing expressiveness gave mo me a glance of retrospective amusement and appreciation Then the they darkened Into gloom as the newspaper man turned to her ber and said I HI see that you TOU ou have not lost your sense of humor No she sho responded with a R sort of catch in her voice oice I I haven't lost my I sense of humor Its It's Is I's the only way I Ican I can stand stand this We Wo tried tred to tell teU her for her comfort that we t didn't believe o that tha this trial would be bo so long as the tho last last It wont won't be terrible for I so me answay anyway 31 any ans' way she Rhe said bravely I have getten gotten got get ot ten used to things somehow I suppose But last time it i was horrible I would go o home and almost cry m my eyes out when the tho papers said dreadful thin things about me 1 I care tare still what they say about me mc of course And I read them all aU to see what hat thc they do say but I dont don't take take it so eo much to heart heart all all the thin things s thor tell about know kno tel mime inc you rou The lovely face that has always a touch of pathos oven en in its mirth drooped like a flower fot cr Thero There was a faraway faraway far far- away look in her eyes as she continued Its Ifs queer bow how you Jou chan change e isn't it it And how hoW you ou for forget t All An tho the bitterness of the last trial all aU the thc things that hurt me so are getting dim in my mind mind mind- pass passing u away I have navo lost all al of the hard feelings g even that I had bad towards any one l After the trial was o over r I tried tied to for forget et it i. i I never Iver even erea looked at my testimony until last lat ni night ht I purposely kc kept t from looking at it i. i it Are Arc you then theu theu going oin on the witness winess stand a again ain f I inquired Oh we couldn't get et along without her Dan 0 OReilly put in A little strained s silence felt fell fel upon the group 3 as each of us thought of what it meant for this little delicate da dainty nt Dresden china bit of womanhood to go o again through that pur purgatory atory across whose burning ploughshares we had once seen seon her walk with wih quivering feet It H was was horrible enough for her hor to have havo to once strip the mantle mante of decent silence from about the shameful secrets secret of her past and toll teU the things s that blister bUster a womans woman's lips to utter uter It I seemed inhuman to make her go through the the ordeal twice But if she shrinks shrink from it she makes no outcry and asks for no mercy She spoke of it simply as ts s one of the tho dute duties of the trial that sho must perform t I 1 could have taken her in my nn my arms al and wept over her with sympathy sympathy but she had no tears for herself for what she had bad to do Sho She stood there there there-so so little so young youn so childish so O helpless in appearance ap op almly an and quietly discussing I doing a thing that cal calls for almost superhuman su superhuman su- su bravery brae r and aDd tho the spectacle left Jef one ono gasping in In amazement I What is it that nerves this thi frail fri I to makin making such a sacrifice Is Isit it some dim i idea ea of penance for the tho follies foles of her youth 3 If I so assuredly I after her hor fr first t open confession Hon tho the recording rc re re- reI I I cording an angel el blotted out th tho score eore I a against her Is it h because of the tho love lo she bears her ber husband husban 1 Then Thea never nc wa waman was man loved as 38 ho is Whatever tho motive moti that carries her I back hack to tho the witness winess stand when she I takes her a again in in the witness chair I shall shan take oil off of my bonnet to one OM I who has the tho courage e of the tho ancient mar- mar Ii |