Show Within the Law LawI BY MARVIN DANA DANAi I i F From ro Dl t the It e P Play I a y 0 of f Bay Bayard ar d V c ill e r c I Copyright 1913 by the H. H K Fly Company The AmerIcan Play Company Is I. th the e proprietor of the exclusive rights I I of the representation and performance of Within the Law In all alf lan Ian J What has all this to do with the st ro he be qu question of theft in the rn rumbled huffily That was the ex- ex e for you o coming hero DerEl And Ana in st steed ad of f telling inc something you rant about labout gas gas' stoves and carfare The went on in its monotone D' as if ho hal had not spoken c And when whon you Oll am aro really siCk and hate haye to stop p work what are aro you ou going to do then f Do you know Mr Ir Gilder th that t the fret first timea straight girl steals it often because she had to have o A or doctor somo like that And J omo pf jf thorn them do woree wone than steal tea Yes they do gina that J straight and wanted to tay atay thAt way But Bu of Bome of them get so tired of the whole grind d that tl that that-that- atThe at- at The man who was wae the employer of hundreds concerning whom these so grim C L truthe wore uttered stirred uno ill ily in his chair arid and there came a touch o 01 color into tim healthy brown of his hist t checks heeke as al ho spoke his bis t p Im not their guardian It I ant watch over them after they leave leavo the store They are paid the tho current rate rato of wa as cs-as cs much as any other store I pays As ho spoke the anger pro by this unexpected assault on him r ant mit of the mouth of B a convict flamed hi high h in virtuous Why he hc went on vehemently i C no noman no noman man living dO does a mot more for his employees than I do Who gave ae the girls tb their ir restrooms u J I did Who YO them tb the ch cheap ap lunchrooms lunchroom f I Idid Idid did did J U But But wont won't pay them h to you live n The Y vry r fa fact t th words we J Hp ken without t RU any trace of rancor r merely made this st statement t of DIlls indiS- truth to the man who was stung to more marc resentment resent resent- meat ment in asserting his impugned self self- H 1 pay them the sime as the other stores do ho bo repeated sullenly Yet Yot once again the gently Kently cad voice ayo answer informed with that repulsive insistence to the thc theman man who sought to resist her indictment indict indict- meat ment ot of him H But Dut you o won wont It PY 3 them to live on Tho simple lucidity ot of the I charge forb forbade do direct reply Gilder betook himself to evasion h by barkin harking back to the established ground of complaint c And so daim that you on cre forced to steal That s 's 8 the plea you TOil make for yourself and nna your our friends U I I wasn t forced forero to steal came the Answer spoken in th the monotone ne tORt that J hail bati mux d her utterance throughout most mOlt of the interview inter I wasn't forced to and nd steal Hut But aU all the tho same silme that that's 8 the lilea as you 1 0 can call it that I Pin m making tor br the other girls Thor Thoro ore are of them tal they thoy get enough to eat cat I saId fiRM J I would ou how hos' to top t the bo stealing W Well I 1 hn have 0 done it the girls n a lair fair to be honest You Vou a asked me mc for tJ the names Mr Gilder Theres only ono one name ou on which to put toe tc blamo for fOI the whole business and name annie is Edward Ellard Gil Gil- den ded Xo Now wont won't O you tl l some some- thing bout about it it 0 At that naked the owner of the store up p from his chair anil stood I at tho girl who a request t so full fuli or of vituperation olI against himself How Hon dare like dare you speak to me this r lie he There was aB no exhibited by the one thus thu On au t the she r repeated with witha a Simple li nit that further ra raged ell the tho ma man Wont W nt Jo yoi J do 10 about it- it dare darc Jon he X Now w there was stark wonder in in his eyes as' as ho put the tho n. n Why I dared Mary Man Turner ex- ex lain l d I hav done all tIme tho harm you Nin can to me And now nort Im Iiii trying to give e you a chance to do o bottor hot hot- tor by bJ the others You ask me Vh why 1 t dare I have a ri right ht to darol I hile been all Ul my life J I have wanted decent boil and worm clothes a and little happiness all 11 the tho time I 1 hare c worked for you OU I havo hato gone gono without tho o things just to stay ta straight b ft Th Tbt end enri of 01 it aU all is iN You arc sending me 1110 to prison on for sonic sonic- thin J I t do lint K ii why I darel sid the in lJ chare c of Mar Mary bud bad patiently O her herall all this 1 8 holding her W wr fot lie He had been in in the verbal duel between the bi big man mun of If the tho d and pt tJ this in his own keeping Vaguely ho imai harl marveled at the ot ot the frail K girl rl in declaiming of hM her injuries the ma magnate nate He h had d felt no part particular cular interest beyond that merely looking on onIS onas IS as one r i ight ht at t an any entertaining spec The question at issue was no concern of his bis His solo business W S St t take tM tao girt away awa when the interview inter inter- view should be De endt endea It occurred to him now that this thiR might in in fact be bethe the time to It seemed indeed that the in insistent reiteration of the girl ir had at last left the tho owner of the store quite powerless to answer It was wa possible possible pos pos- sible then that it were wiser cr the girl should bo be With the tho idea jn in m mind nd ho stared d inquiringly at Gilder until be caught au ht that gentle gentle- m ns n's OVO o-e. A nod from the magnate sufficed Gilder Gildor in truth could coula no not trust himself just then ben to an audible c lie was seriously disturbed b by the gently spoken truths s that had issued from the tho girls girl's lips lIe was not prepared with any an answer though h he hotly resented cr c every word of her So when he caught the tho I q question stion in the tho glance of the he felt a guilty sensation of relief relict ns as ho sIgnified by his gesture C fa faced about and ana in his hs move move- meat ment there was a tU tug at the wrist of the girl that set her ber moving toward the door Her realization of what bat this was was shown in her final speech Oh Oh he hc can an take tako me 1110 now she sheab ab e e th the monotone that had bad contented her hitherto Into the music of her tones heat beat sinister evilly emy vindictive us she faced bout about at the doorn-a doorn doorway to OR Billy had led It'd her I Her faC face a 38 she scrutinized once again the tho man at the desk was coldly m nant Three years rears jsn isn't t forever she said eaid in a leveI el oice When C r t out you vou ar are going to pay for every minute of of them Mr Gilder There wont won't bo be a day ay or an hour that I wont won't rem remember that at the last it was your our word that sent mc to prison And you are going to pa pay me for lor that You are going oin to p pay me for the five years I starved making money Don C for you that too You are gOing to pa pay me for all all th the thin thins things s' s I am losing toda today and and- The bc girl il thrust forth her eft hand band I o om that side where stood the tho officer So SoI I I orous was her ber movement that sidy s 's elas was as thrown off the wrist But the bond 1001 between the two was not DOt broken for from wrist to wrist showed tout the steel chain bain of the man man- acles The girl shook the links Jinks of the in n a gesture stron stronger er than In her final utterance to th tha the a man at the desk there was a cOld threat a. a c of disaster Froth From the symbol of ber be bede de degradation ra she sho looked to the man whose action had bad pla placed cd it there In the of their glances s hers won the victory so 60 that hi hi eyes fell feU before belore the menace in hors H Ion are going to p y nG for she said Her VOIce waa little more than r I whisper hut bus it was loud in the heart Y Ves yiti du u ao o going to P pay for this CHAPTER VI 4 Inferno lh They r were gilin 1 VentS thUC e throe three which her sentence ii ill ing- ing wa vas no ho tithe oil ull JUI good behaviOr or rho girl irl learned soon the tho ot of thu thoo o oset set in in authority t over her could only be bewon won Kt at n a cost against which her every maidenly revolted o. o she wont rent through Ji the inferno 01 days and aud nights in a of that L the tho life there thero therow w s altogether an evil thing There was the ill C Ci present in the of wearisome physical s 's cal toll toil the oarse distasteful fo the hard hartl narrow nar- nar row couch the cou gnawing irkE irkson irk irk- E son lencs s of awa from Ight ht air nir away avay frum aft 1 that lime hile Yet Vet all li lid ions fete not Hot the worst t. t t. t tho EI girl id 5 Ii life fe hat ht which bore wre upon her niost weightily tl and d was the do- do ur of this thi environment from which there was S never au any respite the tho JCl dd II of this snot wherein she had beema cast h no fault of her hor own ilc c lI was everywhere yi visibly in the I faces of 01 mair and it was wa brimming I the souls of more f subtly hideous I The Tho girl irl held herself rj rigidly idly frim any personal with her fellows s. To Tos s at least she ho could separate sepa- sepa rate from their corruption in the tho matter ot of assocIatiOn But over present there was a secret energy of nee ice that could not bo be escaped s so nur b by any de device ice that in the tho spiritual phero phere it itself of tho place Always this mysterious OUS yet ct horribly potent po po- tent power of sin Hin was like a miasma the prison Always Alwa's it was waR striving tr trill ill to reach ncr ner foul to make her of it own She fou fought ht the tho insidious force as best she mi might bt She Sho was waR I not evil cU bv nature She Sho had kiad been boen well grounded in principles or though she sho maintained i the tho integrity ot her character that character from the tho taint There over ocr the girls girl's sensibility a shell of hardness which in time would surety surely CO como 10 to m ko her herle herless le less s sc scrupulous in ner of right and amI wrong Yet as as a rule character remains the tho throughout life as to fo its prime cs essentials and aud in this case casc Mary Maty Turner Turner Tur- Tur ner nt at Ithe end of her term was vitally n as on the day when she aho began begau the sen serving n of tho sentence The h hango n o wrought iu in her was was chiefly of a an external sort ort The kindliness of her hier he heart rt and her desire desiro for the tho seemly joys ot liC life were But over oyer the tTe better qualities of her nature was now spread a crust of worldly hardness a a. denial of appeal to her ber perilously per per- Housh to contented companioning companion companion- ing with crime The rhe heat best evidence of the fact that Mary Iah Turners Turner's sour soul was not fatally soil soiled d must bo 10 found in tho fact that still at the tho expiration of her sentence she bo was was fun fully resolved to live straight as tho thio saving is wl which ch she quoted to Gilder this Thi too in hi the face nee of sure sure knole knowledge e a as to the dl that would beset th the effort and an-a in hi the tho face of the tho t temptations offered offered to follow an easier path Tb There re wis for forr example Aggio Lynch a fellow f convict with ebo ane hit had 11 a n slight degree degroe ot of acquaintance nothing This young woman a criminal b training alluT ments of illegitimate employment in the outer world when they should be free freo Mar Mary endured tho companionship with this because a sixth sense proclaimed pro pro- claimed the fact that here was one tin un- mora moral rath r than immoral and the tho difference is mi mighty bt- bt For that reason Aggie Lynch was not actively ely offensive as were most of the others She was wasa a ty blonde with a baby face in which were set two light blue eyes oyes of ofa a sort to widen often in demure Wonder wonder Won won- der over most moat things in a surprising and naughty world She Sho had been convicted con con- of blackmail and she made no even of innocence Instead she was inclined to boast o over er her ber ability to bamboozle men at her hor will She was a natural actress of the in k genue role rolo and in that pose poso she could unfailingly beguile the h heart art of t the e Wisest men inca the very ery keen student 0 ot might have o discovered grounds r for her demureness s by br reason of the thick level brows that cast a shadow on n the tho bland innocence of her face V lor r tho rest she pos poe lessed a knack of rather r harmless harmless' perversity a fair smattering of grammar and spelling and a. a lively s sense nse of humor within her ber own limitations with mth n. n particularly in other directions Her Hor one art was histrionics of the tho kind that made mado an In such she was vas inimitable She had llad boon beon reared in a criminal faintly h must excuse much Long ago she had lost track of her ber father her mother she had Dover known Her ono one relation Was a brother of hi high h standing as a pickpocket One principal reason of her ber success in leading lead lead- mg ing on men to make fools of themselves over her to their everlasting rc regret et afterward lay in the fad fact that in in spite of all the tho gross irregularities OJ oi her life she remained chaste She deserved no credit for such restraint since it was 3 a matter purely of at temperament en not of resolve To be tomorrow |