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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1024, SENGER The Story of .a Girl Who Tampered Once Too Often W it hthft, Truth, at. nG ms7 - Vrferti" the Father pf Heaven, have mercy upon ns miserable' sinners!. Shirley liked especially this part , the Service. She always tried slhcefely to concentrate npon her prayers, and managed as a role to keep under talrly good control fivesixths of her thoughts. The truant sixth this particular morning was deciding that the new man in the choir had an extremely weird profile; that she must rd 'membfr to get some! red candid for grand father birthday cake; that she must be firm knd not alfew Elliot to sweep her into rej. matrimony before autumn; and that the ' , COD sponse she was murmuring with so much fervor was rather strikingly inappropriate jta a certain member of the congregation. Though her offspring, Shirley in all honesty would have disclaimed with horror pH Inst' reflection; she was sincerely unaware how largely it contributed to that pleasant sense of welt being In which she was innocently basking. Certainly it was difficult to conceive' of misery well nigh impossible of sin in connection with Shirley. Each time she besought mercy from Heaven a flicker of amused, infinitely tender indulgence crept into Grandfather Waynes eyes, still fiercely blue despite his eighty years; into Grandmother Wayne's, faded and dovelike; into Elliott Monroes, worshiping and proudly pro--1 prletary; into the admiring gaze of that portion of the congregation fortunate enough to command a view of Shirley at prayer. Even thetold rector's glance lost something of Its spiritual aloofness, and softened paternally before the golden haired young sinner in the Wayne pew whose twenty sweet years had known so far only sunshine. Shirley, grave eyes Intent before her, struggling to commune with her Maker, was nev-- , ertheles s happily conscious of what they were all thinking, of the affectionate admiration wafted toward' her from every part of the church. For Shirley Wayne was more than the prettiest and most admired girl in Rutherford; she was an institution! Mothers held her up to the wayward daughters as an example of the fact that a girl could be popular without smoking, drinking, rouging, and Joy riding. Men not only lost their heads over her beauty but reverenced" her as the one ideal in a postwar world. People bad a way of getting down on their knees before Shirley and at the same time bending over her protectingly to shield her from any un- toward Jostling on the part of a thoughtless universe. She was at once Rutherford a saint and its happy, fortune kissed child. Against this rose hued background Shirley prayed enjoyably. She could not have told what malign Impulse dragged her eyes suddenly from the altar to meet Ted McAlisters smiling scrutiny across the aisle any more . than she could explain the curious Jolted feeling with which a moment later she .returned, rather flushed, to her devotions. It Was cot that she missed in his gase her accustomed homage; no one ever expected Ted McAlister to be on his knees before anything or anybody. But there had been something in his look which had aroused unaccountably a resentment wholly alien to Shirleys gentleness as if he had lifted some secret curtain of her heart and uncovered something be and she alone knew; something which amused him. which All during the rest of the service she groped for the missing- word, and later in the afternoon again pursued It as she rammed the little red candies into grandfathers birthday cake. Elliot had with difficulty been lassoed 'to the veranda, entertaining, grandfather and grandmother, while Shir- , ley, alone in the wide, spotless kitchen, pre-pared the piece de resistance of grandfather's celebration. She had just penned, quite viciously for Shirley, Ted's name on the gay Little place card. He had been a neighbor too many years to omit him now. At the tender age of five hours he had been introduced to grandfather, and had been condescendingly aware of Shirley's existence since she had first appeared, an orphaned toddler, to live in the Ifuge wbitehouae on the hill. During her childhood and early girlhood they had been on wholly affable terms, though Ted had never, she reflected now, acted in the least as schoolboys in books always did toward yellow haired little girls next door. He had never pulled her to school on his sled, carried her books for her, fought her battles, or pledged her his Juvenile troth with a brass ring. Lovers vows and small girls were of equal indifference to Ted. But hs had always been kind in his brusque, careless way: gent her an occasional postcard from Tale, taken her riding when he came home for his holidays, given her from time to time stern elder brotherly advice. He had been her first grownup caller, appearing the evening she arrived home from finishing school. Its so nice of you to run in this way," Bhlrley had thanked him, and he had responded with Tedlike frankness: " Run in! Tou've got the wrong verb, my child. Dragged In, you mean. Mother brutally Insisted on it. "I can bear It, I think, if she wont stay too long and If you will promise not to use more ban live hundred superlatives during the & evening." m cut down j on them, if youll promise not to talk about your stupid old law," Shirley had assured him merrily. They had got en famously that evening all the rest of the winter, in fact. Shirley had not resented at all Ted's standing disdainfully outside the large circle of adorers who were spoiling "Rutherfords stationery with bad sonnets to a saint witlf haunting gray eyes. Ted was notoriously woman-proo- defend him. " Ha adore his mother and couldn't eat for two days aftpr his doc died.' But there had been no kindness In Ted's look in church today, nor, as sne tuongnt of It now, for some months past. Underneath Its customary smiling cynicism lay criticism and she searched again for the elusive 'ord and tn a flash of indignant realize tins foui4rh,f. it contempt. It was a stately Shirley, 'with her chin at an angle it had never achieved before, who greeted her neighbor that evening. Ted,, placidly Impervious to this glacial reception. had .never been more' charming and there was no doubt that Ted could be charming when he cboss Shirley bM to unbend dure lng his delightful toast to grandfather. A moment lster, however, resentment surged again. In her heart. She had just finished an innocent remark! to Mrs. Bentley. j "We are all so glad to hear you've postponed that trip to California," she had told her, leaning forward in her pretty, . interested way. "We were terrified for fear we werent going to have Marjorie with us for the play. Wa never 'would be able, to fill bar 1 place. It was then that Ted bad flashed her across the table another of those cryptic glances. She translated it more easily this time, illuminated aa It was by a belated re- membranes of her laughing recital to his mother of the trials of amateur theatricals. If only we could lose Marjorie Bentley!" she had walled. " There'd be a chance even yet we wouldnt be hissed off the stage. She's so hopeless and none of us dare tell : her eo!"' , a hopeless stick that It means Just that much the more to be tod the opposite? If thats lying and that's what' youre trying to tell me, isnt it?1 she challenged him it seems to me its worth It, to bravely buy eUch Innocent happiness for people one ' loves. ::"Ali tfreji&xstftnxtsii one cant see truly and thats the biggest to see true," Ted reiterated thing in life doggedly. " Truth's a darned hard taekmis-tress you know wont stand any fooling "with." he dropped suddenly back Into the old chafing tons " Whether we hand out bou-quets to gladden praise starved hearts, or whether we know that Rutherford loves ue best with our rose colored spectacles on, and we enjoy above all things having Rutherford t on its knees." j "O!" choked Shirley, too outraged for I t speech. " Better take em bff. Shirley, before you get permanent roes colored astigmatism," was Teds final lash: " If you'd Just step off for a minute from that pedestal Rutherford's hoisted you up on to, and take off that halo theyve Jammed og to your bead, youd see what I mean." Opportunely, atthat moment Shirley could cross tbs room and band over the muslo rack to hide the tear she could Bo longer keep back. Perhaps Ted surmised them, for later he apologized with a disarming boyish penitence. " I keep forgetting that you are a little over ten and nearly Mrs. EUlot Monroe, he told her with a smile which usually won forgiveness for his most ruthless frankness. Hs , golden-haire- f. . ' "It's not that I care a rap about him, goodness knchvs. I wouldnt marry him. if he were the last man in the world," was the vindictive feminine verdict of Rutherford. . "But O, I'd give anything if I could Just make him propose to me! It was the habit, indeed, of each succeeding crop of debutantes tq abuse in public Ted McAlister, to save dances in the hope that he might ask for them, and to don Us prettiest gowns on- - the rare occasion of his calls Shirley knew Ted too well to waste any ammunition in his direction. He was not her type, anyway, she had told herself, even before Elliot Monroe had appeared to elucidate in one dazzling moment just what that type was Ehe had enjoyed, however,, the Intimacy entailed by living next door to the most brilliant young lawyer In the county and had listened to his advice with submissive admiration. She had never minded Ted's caustic remarks, nor his merciless teasing, feeling the friendliness underneath.. Ted is really kind." as neighbor and old friend ahe bad been wont staunchly to f By Julia Francis Wood certain gray 'coated, straight becked indiupon the floor, and the burglar, vaulting Shirley and James Csssidy did not altoto the piazza, swung himself down victor- vidual In the front row, gazing 'indifferently gether ebaxe Ihie opinion. before blm, with his mouth set in a hard, louely into the waiting arms of the excited ", Law is funny, I think." she remarked neighbors below. uncompromising tins remained unaffected . with ereful rasualnes 'when she got horns Greet Hill, the Inner stronghold of arisby it. Even the prosecuting attorney began What earthly-sens- e was there in that tocratic Rutherford, awoke next morning disctpUng a rampant cowlick. lawyers harping on 'the exact moment that I am going to ask. you, Mige amaxedly to And Itself notorloua Much as it dfflerene'"1' iMi.Si;iKXstUiv,sdV-'v-poeaihi-e b ry ? nateA vtJSS o&s in your" own words Just what did could that make?" was lng upon its exclusive precincts, it happen that night, ha suggested ingratiati"Just a difference of seventeen more years ' humanly frail enough to enjoy the unwonted ngly. in th pen for J. Cassidy," Charlie Travers - So excitement. Even Shirley found the afterShirley tn her toft, appealing voice told had assured her blithely. He'd have draws math of a burglary quite agreeable as she them, simply and graphically. Grandfather only two or three yeai. for Just a plain comrelated dramatically to an abaorbed auhad been able to give only a vague and mon garden burglary; that playful attempt dience the event of the night before. Honor-eblaccount of proceedings; grandmother to kill cost him a mere seven teen more." she made grandfather and grandmothei had not been tn the room during the strugGrandfather and Elliot later expressed the hero And heroine of the episode; there gle; Shirley was the important witness for their sentiments freely in regard to this was nothing Shirley liked better than, sethe prosecution. Unexpectedly she made statement. cure on her own pedestal, to fling down Don't you know that a girl the arena live before a breathless audience, Aa aenaltive aa Shirley would be hound to roses upon her Adorers below. with tender J vivid strokes th galpalAtipg taka a thing like that to hearb-th- at It wasnt Just grandfathers daring to lon old flgura which had rushed with such it would worry her terribly? " Grandfather wrestle with the creature that way, she to .her rescue. It vys splendid impetuosity to stormed th crestfallen Travers but his ulng shead explained proudly, a masterly piece of evidence so masterly right in the face of that loaded revolver-poin- ted There was no doubt that something was that the prosecuting attorney left It to himhis at heart straight flinging worrying Shirley. Her laugh lost its Joy- Its own affect and without a comment self on lb absolutely emptybanded." ousness; ths sonnet inspiring eyes grew turned over his witness to th defense. Acted like a damned fool. grandfather - So haunted aa well as haunting. Grandfather far Shirley had quite enjoyed proceedLis head picturesquely bandaged, admitted and Elliot, fervently cursing Charlie Travings, with ths exception of an unpleasant th&medfacedly. . tlbt entirely too akiiuali ers, held anxious consultations about her moment when she had had to Identify th for ray years. is no sport for the health. Grandmother's opinion was that ahe She had net liked that, and had prisoner. aged. The truth is, I saw red a hen I was upset by her approaching marriage. quite forgotten her audience aa she turned thought that scoundrel 'was hurting Shirley. Girls were often ilk that no matter how her gentle, pitying gaze upon th impassive 1 dont remember another thing that hapmuch in love they might be. 8h tried nev- - ' Cassidy. Her reluctance to send him to tho pened until I felt my venerable bones strike oral times with delicate, old fashioned cirfate he so evidently Meoerved, her sorrowful the floor, cumlocution to reassure th elid. Tea I am sure that is ths mah, softened If the dining room had furnished thrllia, But 8hirley unburdened herself to no one even the Judges eyes. they awindled to ciphers beside those proTh lawyer for the defense roe slowly to Through those long watches of ths night vided by the courtroom. Shirley bad been with which she was becoming so despairingly his feet. He wai a slender little man, with ewalting her appearance in the witness familiar she planned confession after eonfee-sio- n Intelligent, singularly sad eyes set deep in a stand with a mingling of anticipation and lined face. 8htrley had heard of him from only to com back always to th same . Usually a shyster' lawher grandfather. thought. It was Impossible; she couldn't had colonel strike home Ilk that to grandfather, to yer takes a ease Ilk this," tb But Beresford is of different grandmother, to Elliot, to all these people explained. a and sterling who loved her so deeply and believed In her caliber. Hes a gentleman who criminals Is defending! so utterly. Better a thousand times that chap. His hobby a good lawyer. Cassidy should bo sacrificed than they. It havent money to pay for tn died who ths son was silly to suffer so over a had man who peniThey say he had a to wants reason hs deserved his fate. The motive behind her tentiary. and that is th lie bad been wholly Innocent. She had only help out the toor devils wanted to give grandfather pleasure to make him feel a here dAplte that birthday he had dreaded. It wasn't as If she herself had gained anything by her deception. She would argue out her case convincingly, persuade herself ahe had rolled, away for good that hideous weight of oppreralon end then there It wan again with each heavy eyed dawn, crushing her, killing her wiping every Jot of sunshine out of hsr world. Even the adulation she bad Uved upon bad turned to bitterest gall. She moved about restlessly now upon the pedestal she had so enjoyed, measuring its distance from the ground with sick, terrified glances. ind when she played at church eo thought of possible admiring gxnces came between her and the hopeless, anguished petitions with which she was these days: " O God the Father la Heaven, havA mercy Upon us miserable sinners!" "What would you do If you should find out I wasn't this perfect creature you think. I am?," she asked Elliot one day when he had been telling her for th hundredth time what she stood for In his Ufe; " that I had don jMmethlng you thought wrong really , , eyns. . -- cop-fuze- d y . I hd pro-duc- e Jiu-jits- , . wicked?" " Whats th use of discussing an Impossi- bility? " he demanded. " O, EUlot. don't be silly! " she flashed back with an Irritability incredible in Shirley. " Im human of course, J could make. jnia-takee- ." It seemed to her that she must scream If EUlot Just once more fatuously reiterated her ' lawlessness. He saved her by this time seriously pondering ber question. . " If I lost my faith in you, Shirley," ha answered her gravely, I should--wthere wouldn't be anything left for me. I should loss faith in God and man! " - "That settled It, ths told hArseif with' finality as 'he began that night th old desperate searching for sleep. Sha couldn't tell him ever! t That, however, was before ber visit to the JwL . , She bad awakened on night with n heaven sent inspiration. If she oould not right Can-sidwrong she could at least maks atonement to his fellow suffererm .She would devote her Ufe, she vowed tn th darkness, to helping criminals Every moment of every cent ah could save from- her allowance. N , It seemed a completely feasible scheme until d&yUght cam with its brutally practi- cal testa. Then she began to lose heart a little. But she would not let escape without a struggle this on hop of comfort An soon as breakfast was over she paid aa early morning call on Jessica Saunders. Jessica, energetic and plain, a dead weight In society, was deep in social work.' Th debutantes regarded her aa a hopeless highbrow, and still worse a noble soul; Shirley alone had gone out of her way at teas where Jessica waa still occasionally stranded to speak a friendly word to her, nod had even tried to share with ber at dances reluctant , - -- - So that was what he thought, Shirley told .herself, the rose in her cheeks dee pend to scarlet, her mind a whirl of turbulent, chaotic self vindication. Just because she had tried to entertain his sick mother, because she was trying now to maks poor Mrs. Bentley feel happy, he could, form so unkind. so unfair a Judgment The serpent wriggling Into Eden produced no greater upheaval than this first breath of hostile criticism in Shirley's love warmed world. She swept the table in piteous search of champions. There were ten staunch ones ready at hand defending her against Ted's silent accusation in every admiring glance smiled over at her. It was grandfathers celebration, but Shirley was as always Its golden heart. How could they all give her this love and approbation if she were really Insincere creature Ted the seemed to think she was? Her rare anger mounted slowly throughout the dinner. Ted recklessly continued to east new fuel upon IL T?s, mother browbeat me Into going to church this morning. be was saying now in answer to congratulations upon this unusual occurrence. " Ive felt depreesed all day in consequence. Church always makes me melancholy. I don't enjoy confessing-msins aa much as Bhlrley does. The last thing in th world I want is to cal) heaven's or .the public's attention to them." It wa then that Shirley picked up deliberately the challenging glove he had twice that day flung at her feet. After dinner she resolutely placed herself beside Ted in th window seat, where they Would talk undisturbed under the inharmonious cover of Mrs. Gilchrist's singing. An innocent remark of grandfather's served to precipitate hostilities. "My little Shirley sees me always through rose colored spectacles. he had smiled in answer to one of Bbirleys charming compliments. Tou must have rose colored ear drums as well as spectacle," Ted moaned as Mrs. Gilchrists shrill voles ascended. "Why in thunder do yon always urge that woman to sing? Tou know she cant Because I also know it gives her pleasure, Shirley had fired her opening shot. And you are willing to pay any price for ' " " that? What .price do you mean?" she de- manded. Th truth, he responded grimly. " Saying agreeable things and telling the truth dont always wall hand in band, do they? More than once before he had given her with brotherly frankness a home thrust delivered from the immense advantage of twelve years seniority. This one, however, was different, unsoftened by Teds usual gay banter, , tingling with a genuine emotion. Bhlrley went whit under Its sincerity. It was on thing to be warned of possible perils; quite another to be accused of an Ignoble fault of which you are completely innocent. " In your profession," she told him, trying to steady her voice, "doesnt the motive underneath a crime make a lot of difference? Dont you see, its just- because it Isnt ths truth because grandfather is old and Mrs. Gilchrist cant sing and Marjorie Bentley is - -- . ruined all chance of adding, And even I the halo is becoming." , In the solitude of her own room Shirley at first wept bitterly, like a heartbroken child ' under its first blow. Later anger effectually dried her eyes. WhjL should she waste a single tear on anything Ted McAlister might say, when a man like EUlot Monroe thought her perfection! The best punishment she could give Ted was to forget his words completely, she decided, as she settled herself for sleep. After tonight she would arrange matters so she should never have to talk to . blm again. In that, however, she was reckoning without James Cassidy, Esquire. It was shortly after three o'clock that same night when Shirley first made his acquaintance. She had wakened with a vagus sense of disaster to a terrifying realization that a sinister figure was bending over her dressing table, th lower part of Its face muffled to a black blur, its hand closing greedily over the Wayne pearls grandfather had given her on her last birthday. " If you ever see a burglar." grandfather had answered once an anxious inquiry of here on this subject, keep your eyee cloeed, don't make a aoundaad let him take anything tie wants." m With the dreaded emergency actually at hand, however, Shirley, for all Ijer fore' thought, found herself unable to apply the "first aid she had been recommended. Her soft voice discovered suddenly unexpected resources, and lifted Itself in a shriek which would have don credit to a New York huckster. f The, unwelcome visitor, clutching the pearls, took a threatening Step toward tb bed. But be had mad a fatal miscalculation in regard to opposing forces. " An old man. an old woman, and a girl in that part of th house," he had summed them up contemptuously. Age, however, though it had whitened . grandfather's hair and weakened his knee joints, had been as yet wholly unable to make any inroads upon his impetAus courage. Not for.' nothing had he been dubbed Daredevil Wayne." Barefooted, in youth in th night shirt of a generation ago. of his eighty years, the old oblivious colonel hurled himself into the rom in instant answer to that beloved cry. The Intruder was waiting for him behind a leveled revolver, but grandfather had never yet stopped In the middle of a charge. Grandmother was eefeaming for help quaveringly from her window; Shirley,, rigid against her pillow, could . only watch, paralysed with horror, as he plunged toward that round, menacing eye marking his heart. Tb enemy, flinging up his hand, played his last - desperate card and fired Into the air; then grandfather was upon him, fighting with all th strength of love. But even that could not prevail against a handicap of fifty years; a moment later the old figure lay still . y dread. She enjoyed drama of any descrip lion, and she had a delightful new gown and bat for the occasion: on the other hand, in stories. and plays witnesses seemed always to be having a rather hay lime of it. " Will they heckle me? ahe Inquired fearfully of grandfather and Eliot;- - ae they waited with her In the somber hall of the In courthouse her summons to ths trial. stories they are always heckling the witnesses being impolite to them and objecting to everything they say. Will they treat ms like that?" Grandfather and Eliot exchanged the look ahe always particularly enjoyed as older people smile in secret over ths head of a beloved child. I don't believe any one is going to heckle you," Elliot remarked with eloquent significance. "And I'm sure no one will object to you." It was quite evident from the beginning of Shirleys testimony that nobody did. Th.s knowledge alleviated the shock of her first introduction to the mysterious workings of the law. Ehe had visioned a great, dignified room; an impressive, black robed, whits wlgged Judge; on one side the prisoner trembling in his dock, and on other herself in the new gown and hat a solitary, graceful figure facing a sea of expectant Shirley had liked him for that. She liked him still more when he addressed her in hie pleasant, deferential voice. This nth man would never heckle anybody, she told her-ae-lf in relief. I understood you to testify, Miss Wayne, dill T not, that aa Colonel Wayne" entered your room, the defendant leveled a pistol at him." "Yes," Shirley answered. "That your grandfather rushed upon th defendant and struggled with him; that dur- ing this struggle he Knocked up the defend-- ' hand so that the pistol was discharged in the air? Yes," Shirley repeated. How fussy they were in law about unimportant things, sbs commented inwardly. ' Now. are you absolutely certain. Miss Wayne, Mr. Beresford asked her earnestly, that that shot was fired after your grandfather had flung himself upon the defendant? Wasnt it, rather, the defendant himself who just before Colonel Wayne grappled with him fired Into th air of his own free will merely to frighten away his ants faces One by one these Interesting details were rudely washed out of her picture. The courtroom itself was dingy beyond belief; Shirleys horrified gaze took Instant note of the paint peeling from th railings; of the large stain in the celling; of the cracked water The judge, bald pitcher in ths corner. headed and in a gray business suit, lounged negligently at a shabby desk; the, prisoner, wholly casual and unconcerned, was comrnrt-ablseated beside his attorney; there wa s dock, and witnesses, it seemed, paradoxically eat in the witness stand wedged in at that between a stoop shouldered old man writing busily in a book and twelve singularly unprepossessing , looking individuals who fixed upon her a weary, lack luster gaze. The last glimmer of romance departed When, instead of kissing reverently the Bible she was ordered by a bored young man to hold up her right hand and " shelp-m- e nothing ' Gawd! It was all most disillusioning, but beyond the mutilated railings broke a foaming line of filmy dresses and lace parasols Rutherford's Four Hundred defying th heat to hear Bhlrley testify. It might prove-aInteresting afternoon after all, Bhlrley decided, espeafter she had noted that tb vacant cially eyed jury, adamant apparently so far to A and hair Llchensteln golden hat, was rousing slowly from Us apathy as she began to speak. Of all ber many weapons, Shirley's voice had caused perhaps the greatest fatality. As she Stated her, name and residence a distinct masculine flutter agitated th courtroom. Only the prisoner and a y . A lei-su- re - . partner It waa bread cast upon th water Jee-ticaU eagerness and Interest, listened now to Shirleys pretty plea of weariness at nothing but good times of desire for service. "Couldn't I help people In prison?" Shirley asked. " Ever since we had that but" glory thinking perhaps If that poor man had just bad a chance isn't there some-- , thing one can do to help men Uk him?" There was much, it seemed, and, in an evQ boqr for Shirley, Jessica promised to 1st her a, With his words rushed into Shirley's mind a gripping memory of th Immense relief of that unforgettable moment when th terrifying wrist leveled at grandfather's heart had flung .itself up in sudden merciful reprieve. know the next time she took magazine to Barring forever the entrance of her testitb Jail. mony stood inexorably the story she had Th day after that visit Shirley confessed retold so trfany times these last few weeks. to EUlot. They had ridden far out of towra If that tn Itself were not enough. In th front into a little green and gold wood they claimed row of spectators sat Ted McAlister, meeting especially for their own. It had known their her eyes at this crucial moment with that happiest hour Shirley would never hav , same hard, mocking challenge he had sent believed that In that setting, with ber lover her ocroea a eburesh aisle on Sunday cen- stretched at her feet, looking up at her with turies ago. adoring eyea, life could seem utterly hateful It seemed to Sljlrley that It lasted hour and awry. Not even this golden moment, it that swift, unexpected struggle tn which conappeared, could wipe out those searing meml science and vanity were suddenly locked. ories of bard, miserable faces behind Inez-- " Even the trained ear of tb lawyer, however, orable bars; of a boy prone on a dirty cot, his wee unable to detect any faintest hesitation head buried in his arms; of that sordid, unin her steady answer. speakably desolate little world shut out from No.- It wa sun and wind and eky. A great sob shook grandfather who knocked up the pistol Into the air." her unezpectedly, startling ElUot to his feet. The rest of ths afternoon was a vague blur Why, Bhlrley," be besought her anxto Shirley. Detached fragments of the trial iously, " what Is It? What is It, my darling? forced themselves from time' to time upon Bh tried brokenly at first Jo shelter her- her attention; the ripple of laughter, th self behind n headache and nerves; then, sudchauffeurs broken English brought forth; denly, to her own amasement, found herself Mr.' Beresfords earnest voice still valiantly pouring out th bare, unpardonable truth. pleading Cassidys innocence of any fntent to To EUlot it was totally unpardonable; that , "Gentlemen kill: of I ask you, it was evident from th first. Perhaps if Bhlr-la- y the defendant had had any desire to shoot had sobbed it out against his shoulder-bColonel Wayne, what better opportunity1 have been Abie to find some mitigating might he have possibly wished than that coulij circumstance But th long mac ths of hid- - , the colonel stood defenseless in given whep den struggle had worn her out, and she dishe th doorway? Yet, did not shoot covered all at one ah was at the last lap But even proofs would have had to put up her strength, able only to relate Unetno- - ! a hard fight against th states witnesses, , of tlonally naked facts, facing Elliot's incred- reinforced as they were by th colonels tilous horror with expressionless eyes and t heroism, by grandmother's sweetness, by . ; voic charm. fa th prosecuting It was, Shirley's a attorney's opinion, highly satisfactory ' afternoon. (Goatbmed a following pngej the-Jury- e - then" |