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Show 'f ' H.bf fafe , SECTION THREE , T '' M4F - t iAth THE DESERET NEWS SATURDAY FEBRUARY zLSzi VII he her mpreeetnn had ft. wad earn- reader ha told her ao. ' BUa had won on another rare. Jler pray her daughter , had acma ta New Terh. which saved any snxle- Ty about going' ahrteaL Bha could shake down tha yeung huahaad If tha daughter herself would not do tbs right thin. After all. the risks of having ,rhll- drag, apd mother to re. deserted reward (WTWaf1 - ' hltloo. fjt should K herd. Her revery wag Interrupted by the, bell of. tha py meed.' OF HELIOTROPE A-m-W- - By RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD. (Copyright, Tht Wheeler lH,by thsr la a girl. They a y aha Tfcsy aajr aha la ratine, a golds If from Mu of spring sunlight, that today har Ufa la aa full at promise soft Itaslf. Thar oay Ms Is vsivjty dad aa apnag ail aad that tbar la a boat har that siraaaa dignity and can convent which tha Fvneh t i mtsalnt aad calm oh. how , aha tan i gtva hat that aba san duo . dd a I aa If music. ssprossln tha f raal promts of har Ufa, waa abla ta anloek har spirit, and that It tfeaa floaad forth Ja undulating motion or apurtad lata tha world, leaving a array of happlnrn wher- " soar har atspo passed by, la a shower of vivacity. Thar any har Up bora aara r tour had athar Upa smipt tor ana pair, had they say that It la proh-ah- la that thay Wsvsr will, llapploasa, tha promlaa of fall bloom, coolant! All thaaa because, and only biaauad af a parfama from tha ioD-aTha location of a panUantlary la af no aorta a-tha pi ago la aaldom rhoaan far Ha rlaw. or apian: ' trash air or tha proapact which ono'oUd aaa aaoa It a could stand aa tha pacing guard can, upon tha Jap of tha thick, high wall of tha msrellasa trial aaa yard hatwaaa tha workshop and tha grim, hktoow- moiiuioHyoftH stona and ugly fcarrad cpanlna. Tha stir," as tha profaaalonals ussd to nail this unmarry Institution, was built by tha at ala closa ta tha railroad tracks. Tha aua boat dawn, tha fralght oagtnas anort, tha chains af oars claak aad tha odor af soft aoal and sluggish rtvor earns over aha high waH where jna look up hoping ta aaa a htrd cross tha ampty ractangla af aky. Ona man aaaaag thsm ha who la third In majority has ' blow haarg tha naan whlatla an tha oagtaa-houa- a within fifty or alxty thousand tlmso, Ua had a . radar: non of tha throe wardens had ehanged M waa did. Thars la luck only In add numb are.' Number 41 waa ft trusty. " Ha waa a "lifer." H had reached old ago bora; eld aga bar la being forty-fi- ts whan ana begins being a "Ufsr" at twsa-ty-saad baa left a girl with pretty hair and red , . lx eheeks and delicately formed limbs and a smile of such Innocence that It makes on forget how black bar aeut can turn In momenta of vlclousnss. - he bad bean married twice since, but. aa If ha , him nearly ovary T haunted har. aha had'wrlttea year sometimes twice! She had sent har photo- - " graph too a hit stoat and an donod up," But what person looking open .this portrait of a woman who, dike a cat, bad lived nearly eight Uvea, would guesa who that. In faet, ah waa elder than Number once bad learned ao much terrible wildness from th Ingenuity .behind tha.luaier of he black and radar ths .heen ef her black hair? Her ham. ' Ncspcr Syndic!.) 'Tor awnamant I thought Id pass the buak baik io ou." the governor said. "But I don't sftaa bae tho chase to aaad suffer aad firmer than yeu do, Tyne 1 taka up your dropped burden. ' apartment. "peels conscientious mas 4 villa Issues. SOUIRIIllKI, Llfs - la baa way, - - delivery- Udy." mid bey. It rather puaaled her. however, la find I ha I tha.. sheet ef note paper within wee Sheolulely- - bleak, there was not as much aa a dot nf Ink upon Ha ear-fePh turned It star and than bark several times Bha could scarcely believe that It could be i A appeared. , as blank aa I Joe ehrugged her shoulders pinned bar hair bask and wee? baek ta tha rocker. There waa a Saturday night boa of randy an the sill, and picking up ona af tha creams ' aha bit through tha ehooolate covering Into a maple Inter. . lor. As aho.iook her hand a a ax from har mouth, however, ah stepped .chewing and appeared sur- prtmd tn this pause aba ticked hey How and closet her arm as H mm p Ling the flavor of the sweet- - At lebt ehg raised her thumb and forefinger and smell- - . ed of them carefully. : ' .. Tboea who have heard a raM.lt squeal when a aharge af shot .baa bowled H pver on tho nutuma , leaves wUt know th tsnad that cam at last from throat the throat that trace was tha pride of O gorge Haedock and now was not only fat. but bad tha surface of buekakla gloves ehnlnkea la a washing. Joa sprang up from hor Bundercomforl aad -ptmtenr ta-- f via lo'tb corner which served aa a wastebasket. Tha lady hesltatsd as tf afraid ta pot tha blank shmt of paper to hor nom and when aha did ao she . uttored another squeal. - The blaak sheet was rank with the Odor of jbet- lotrope! v e e Oaly those whs know how sxqulsita may bo tbs whim ef a yeung king of tho dark llfs would know thej which Jos knew. For Jos knew that bar Georgia had ones had tha meat beautifully , aad polished nails la Chicago and that ha never shaved without heliotrope toilet water or carried a handkerchief not redolent with tho aeeone Of that delicious garden bloom "Him!" she ejaculated, clutching at tha loose flesh of bar upper arms "Bmesaage from him. He 'sant be out. My God, bo cant bo out!" It waa a bluff,' however! He bad gene It"' through some discharged prisoner whs might drep a scented letter but would go no farther,' Joe sang ' aver her dominoes aad counted It a good omen that she woa at muggins By Wednesday aha had restored tho happy content with which sho , . contemplated her future. On Friday eh awoke because of a rustling at the apartment door. 'From the alcove, whars her tied was palled away from tho fresh air so that she could have tha heavy sleep In which she found de- - L: light, eho could sea a little whits thing wagging like r a kitten's tall benea:h the door. 8ha sprang out of bed. and ever the dirty hardwood floor, aad when she saw that tba thing which had been aerttched to 'and Tro'wrx'TiewyupefiHppIni:7 sbe'fTung open the door and poked her disheveled bead Into the . . ball. It was empty. She looked up tbo etatra. Nothing. She listened. No oound. Bhe went to tbo front -- door aad looked Into th vntlboItTShe bad begun to gurgla involuntarily In her throat. Nobody in-"the vestibule. Bha opened the front door and look-e- d into tho street. plenty of persons so tho avenue.' but ao oao nearer. Tho newspaper clipping could not havo switched back and forth Ilka a kitten's tat of Its own motion. And besides. Jos was wheezing and bar heart was knocking tiko a carbonized' gasoline engine within ber for another reevon. - The -ball, to ber noss. stank, K was filled witb a ghastly .. suffocating flood of heliotrope - The wont was true! The clipping the Inno-cent clipping from a western paper told It. Ha bad been pardoned! Ho waa out." Ho had been there there In the hall. She ksaw. These wars the ; Ways of her Georgl! 1 I Bring on your man." Tha warden ptekedup tha telephone. "Bead la Hasdock." ha mid, aad then to tha gavarnar whs had raimd bis eytbrows; "Mss a trusty.' H waa a trusty back five yen re ago tha year before I cams. Tha athar case tha ar forger. That's alaar, .Until? Prison doctor anyo T. B. But tall ma brtof-l- y about tha man th ona I am ta aaa." , Pyna playad with a paper-cuttaa ha talk ad.' Ha said: Ha waa a Chicago messenger hoy ones. Than a bellhop. Ha toaihsd tho world that way. Gambling an tha ponlm, - that in a card game In .Now Orleans. After six months ho round tho mas Who put him In the hospital and loft him for dead. Arrested. Btx months Learned something In tha Groat . schools governor, wo run. penitentiary. er . ' ; . , with a prison pal named Foley. Mat rotor's r. Oh, wall on and on Hitched anto Blako'a pay-of- f Joint and kicked In his sbar of wholesale houm burglaries Then came Out hers . Country town bank. Job, Night watcbmsa fired two shots Ilaadock was cornered. Offered tw surrender, but watchman saw rad, Hasdock's Ufa ar his Bo Hasdook mads tha big mistake, aa be Ha often saya: "I wUb to God Td ye blmmlf. taken that modiolus laataad of this" Tho governor nodded. "Record good?"' 'KxcoUent. Beat man la tha lot. Not tamo. X don't mean that." Damn tha onaa, X govarqor. This one has atm got fight In him. Ilka him for It. It's tha whining, soft hypecritm that tasks ma sick. No, there'a mmethlng la this one that baan'l been killed. I guess It'S soul, governor. Its whet makes a man shoot to kill whoa It's mtmieed. nod tho same thing that makes him throw his own life away to save another. I'd hate to have Haedock say he'd kill me. He'd do It If U took a lifetime. But Im human enough to toys h!nu He tries to gat the man hers In Uao. Ho ssysi t "Tha Ten Is our world, boy, lets make it one we can. And whan he says he'll do a thing " "Toud bet your lest dollar T "Tea, on bis nod. Yegg, profligate, murderer. Raa tha whole record of vice and crime. Ran 4 hurry. JUd ot waUThero he la" mrlng th. st.p. in ,h. corridor. Merer mt UP- - He waa oonaoioue of his almlghU ea but not that b. would BOt He was a Jltti.eurprlmd atthe.ppearance of tho man In th. Crnwy. blu. a.rge in th. doorway; hn, Uke ao many ala-ta- g - the-bes- Into , th( BUS ODtia Cut top Flee Iwr Pr la in some kind of her." . .. troubls Wr Aad ha wants .. . MlIL Tha Upper Half Was Grara, bat th the Grimness Joe Knew So WeH ' to go to face and I will never see her. Aad I eaa stand OI B that, too. But by Judaa! she has coma along no tar without n stain oho a had a chanoe. 1 giva it to her. And aba's grows up beautiful and clean. 10 you think I'll stay hare and see It all fouled? Not ma if you don't pardon me out now. 1U Jump this place. I never tried It before It werent my way, but by God" . "But if Inly the wardea sod I you and your former V He know, Haedock," the governor argueik ' w lio will foul that young Ilfs?" , "Who?" Number 414 whispered hoarsely so that'll sounded Ilka a aerpsnt about to spring. . - , . flea. who"'. , - - - Tho prisoner thrust forth his arm with a watch-sprin- g swlftnaao and held It extended on a crooked elbow, the palm of the hand vertical. It wee like an Imitation of a and It 000 a characterlaUo geatura used a bittime to command . attention. , "You don't get Jt. govraor." he said, sending forth, word after word, as a machine for cutting wire nails sp(ts out Its metallic product, "dhe aint never going to see me not in a thousand ears - Tho other ecOwled, as if h disapproved of ental coldness, and Pyne. , seeing the scoal, smiled aa If he were thinking that the governor, bed much knife-thru- st . id leant. - '" - ea .ruwl d; black-heart- ' ed I- , ed -- tho-bab- d, se. heat-wav- es - a, J - -- ft te gray-whit- 1 ndmln-ietratlo- door-step- the-bes- t e. d, Tt 'I . r hr mf-fclo- ody arm-e-an- o ' n, , - semi-circl- snow-stuf- d ' hd ' any--thl- ng -- g 'll" ' y - -- T ' broed-brimme- ju, ' -- Tvhm s T - -- the-lou- e s 't'a there-Georg- 4. par-.du- n, who-loo- - ve 'ftsrwu Jt( gs ' -- n ri e trn m i.. . i -- rd -- er rt n t a. I' - ,, ed. ' hi jo aae?t Rm t A u jCj. f 4 Wto4- - vS , -' -- 4 ... L ltiuinto - nr LLk. r Hasdoclr straightened up. "Alice la engaged is "if you are responsible for bringing this child be married be laid. "I got a pal on the other side pu eughv te tblak- - tn'took her up. He 'ditlut know ho oho le. No, th. world. Aha flrm.-thlnabout when you get out is gomg to her, helping her sir. Not oven him. Ha found sha-wengeged to - trying to make up for three twenty years of being bo merrled. Crnxy? I waa wild. Ask the warden, fronx-be- r, own fault." your 1 wasn't through wild. And thca I wrote to find out about away throw th. plotura away, but h. could not looked at the Haedock af her ra sha had AhMmawsy ho ed back Into tho leather chair, "Tee, who will speak after all this time?" -th. eld days whan Ufa era. a galloping bore, of wild looked upon him with ptty and shook bis head. A film of hate made the ayes of Number 414 . of runaway advaaturo, danger, uaroekoalng Joy dulL The ennui of long hat appeared to fill his "Well, Ill tell you." he said with a patient aigh. omft, resource, bravado, grinding tooth, hot head," - typa.N "I gotta explain to yott like 1 did to the srarden. limbs. and then In moments of change, tha Mrpeotlne . , " fche Clao Joe that Hors a a picture of her." sloth, tha basking pleasure with Joe. He called her Hand oak's hair had turned a lifeless white, eug- He fumbled in hid Inside pocket, producing It, Haadock!" Joa; tbs gang all called her Joa. Bha bad atawa aad Boetlve kaed wee- of the colorlaea thing which sprout lo cal Yr and allhough tiia govarnor rioaa-fiosvinTy T v as going 'u tali the' 4.'t)oared fen.- - Tea, she ytwnt "ark. In Him luirr rf rti lers. Tha pallor of hie skin was nut tho prison pa!- - extended cvgerly, tbs prisoner took along look at goiernor. - Sha never about When gos South Bide the tender, graceful, white-armelor of fiction, but only that strange, prlsstllks palI let the baby go it was the heart out of mo, seof tbs photograph before he pamed it on. roe I. motet-eklne-d CRo Brody like a'reptlllan had ParistanVna of which But ker lor meant produced had Soma and it If free eatin him. portraits and It had not grown up wljh only evenings dor Joe bleached by the darkneee like eomethlng bssn tho setting for .two deep-se- t sn extraordinary oxamplo of his set. This was no drlnkin' around. And sho lays quiet' like a lizard and clear-blu- e out of a deap cave damn her) Even for yes it might have bean unpleasant motionless nd inertly flat picture , personality. twenty years, and then because shes flat broke. . No. 41 must have theughl-- of . her that day, be He was a tall, lean and graceful person. Nslth. ... tho golden quality of the bJkmxi,,r trem- - , that hot, sunbaked day, when the Mercer understood. th manual labor nor-thThe woman wants to hnmtltatton or hie pon- - projeettd so that there ehfmmerea on tno nine - id- blsd aothat every- - man --w wncTirmst henic that a suggesclaim ber photograph nor of now. eh? - nor th pocket the f tho itlen, manner of prison had oquaro Inchef daughter garb day the governor came. .. from him an air of fastidiousness, which tlon of tha color. of life. And from the quiet ten-.'"Yea sir. She wrote mt. She's got ont letter Tha governor bad "come down from the capital parted moist lipe Ju one of thaJetlerm the woman in Paris wrote of hia old pal who may be alive aad dar eye and from r! to'speak at the annual fair; he told lbs farmers read this, wilt recognize and remember He nails - there shone forth that poised expectancy of yeuth. me after Heft the baby girt. Tr x link, eeeT'A' what he would do if and the crowd in ' proof, er? And she thinks Im safe hers. She were polished. Hie lined fee was cloeely shaven. beauty and love. tbo streets who. had cheered the gray-whiwinner thinks Im in for life. She thinks my hands Is tied, hia hair waa parted scrupulously. He might have "See her hair and them eyea," said Haedock. e of the Derby.- chyered the . Y sn Eugllih lord of airtnbred and runcut llne. "There sin t a drop af her mother's blood In hcr. land YcanY cut her fat throat. So aha a going to - lies the governor told; and then he visited the 'Pen Sho not The would would not go terror down. 8he s wse be blow, governor. It there the lorlng mother "Shes like you?. going to anything about him, except the because he had promised Hike Pjne. the warden, Yes.s.r. See tbs talc." He touched h!s own now. Shes going to get bera She got the news out during tho day that 'followed unless shs paw patience. that he would, Th politicians were frj ing to "get" Might stoop, symbolic of hideous prison that the street outside was filled witb people, with And the smells couv Shes coming out and th eternal reatlevenees of his deer-blu- e n of hts "honor a stern" Mtke I ti ex, ''lifeless whi'S hair a If he had forgotten for the somehow. s or neighbors on the It was hia grin. . He at aye appeared as If Hfe waa moment that youth had gone. , "Yes, shes like roe of her bole Ilk a rat. She a going to drop a job paster-bj- s seeking of this institution .of. "correction" where coolness from the late summer heat. Laura, the of me." , . a, Joke a g hastly comedy. This contrasted unpleas-- a running an elevator and stop balng brok and livThe governor criminals are made permanent. to want 'You don't to" Mercers' had In returned' Jos that ts believe a cabbage-hal- l boarding-housmilliner, began "Ahd'vet She's golnt began ing humane man and he was on Mike Pyne's side and- - .antly with the upper part of his face, for there upon forehead .and around 4e there wag an lndicaUon jegjker to put- In .detsndiug the Warden the square-jaweflat- When night cams Joe Would not answer any . -- Hy God!" Haedock answered. "Want to ess governor , thst l!fe e.ss iaytc and pffita ps euhlinie. lhnirlnj' iirie.W-Ti-S-r- : . -summons at her door; three In after dark eh would ' her Into that Prench- vTh S' a rd c rT'nbiT This la Haedock, eald the warden; Tltrr WenTTOM Thg dxv--1 ardTnC ed to be able to say that he had mader an lnepec- - 4 yefrcmrrnetno a liuie ded. Thats right, said he, with a hard look upon b11 ho lamp, nor even strike a match so that no ' prisoner appeared baffled; h looked at woman's hands and looked .down at tloa of conditions at first hand. Ho could use the T thought important-peroonag'shadow of ber Ould by chance fall upon the drawn 'With and, hia quarefac, Tve seen the letters ocowrl a -JIO longer- - than my atrango e thing. saw .own with It use he could my ;" phrase. window-curtai' utT my haivena ryne at the rear. Bhg moved her bureau ot nl Prhaps eueplclon. soul had been rup all out of me and Into her, eiclalmed the gov' from the stump In the next campaign If necessary. wouldn't believe so that It cov ered the window on the street from. "It O nothlng about her. he said to Pjne at she's all- I ever wanted to see. ernor i"lf we let this man go now on hia record So he left two members of his staff outside talking n hoarse wh leper. H. She locked and bolted doors and windows both ar.l I know what thirst' for booze la And 1 know end all of the: If I uae my arbitrary power and to the wardens overdressed wife on the porch of x ' e f. I teen In front ef the alcove v "No, no, the warden replied. "Not directly how a guy hungers for the pardon this man my deer sir, whatever may moved chairs in a th warden's house, where the lemonade was, and hj. mean. t Come In. Heiock. This le there. Bot its easy to be off them hires comparso that feet coming from nowhe-- e in the dark would not You be that womafr perfidy, we'fe signing away the he.4 having put his official hsnd.lqlo warm, Pjnea n stumble and awake' her from the snatches of sleep ! spoke to hint about you." ed to a fight to stop the hanker for her. W ant to - safety of her life and llni." meaty grasp, went Into the office and slumped down Number 410 stood with iis lips parted-anones ..see her? Io I? Hell. I d do another tho.ua.nd years Into which complete exhaustion had driven her., "I dont think so, Mercer," eald the warden. Into a comfortable leather chair and, wiped his high ' .' ee her hi beoatao tout beeauee --thce-, h hut Just onetMth nd ittw ta lonB brth- - . Thc..,alr ta "Why. no:r' rlxht here and now, to brow with a ailk handkerchief as big a a bureau ; 1 wee bo ventilation, but Joe gare It no refreshment. Haedock leaned forward, welting. She would ert for hours behind the cprjain at the Tynn looked from the face of tha governor, . Coca she want to see vou' Because he says he won't touch her. ' He he said cheerfully,' "Well FyniT my friend, become resistant and cold, to tho lifer. whlch window peeping out St tha faces of those who pass- "See me?" Inquired Haddock earcistkally. "She warns hi freedom to sao bis daughter, but he says course. the to took of want at see..' I placq. "lsts . warden said; ed by in the street. She saw no one shs knew. went to see me? Why. Governor Mercer, he ddn't he wont touch his wife.", J promised I'd pay you a, visit; - You're doing all The "Tell the governor. Every thing depends on It.. . know Shes mice. And by God she won't ever know. Sometimes for hours she would sit In tflo 'But whi! assurance have we the go'ernor right. Let the opposition howl." Tali him as you told me, old roan. I was having life easy andmonev t u r k e d .e wsy.y lt "5 vd Tyfca.W' Haedock. Wtth ths ri od THs' mdutlw snd thr'-' f' provided fdr her i The FTenchwomen was hich huw that ho held no assurance.- "Ho hates, The gold syrup ; t? stuck to the surface pf her skln. Sh wTk wardea was a direct personality;- - It i mouth shut except to write class and she kept-hewlstfulneea ,of all banyan . yearnings multiplied rum-- ls'TJeeperate.'' Whst policy, and, then, ,,wpujd jbipofgjpin ,to was lo be done he was It ar once. blew oot;:nh, ttrad overpTear-'cntll-st-i would remember wliat It would cost her; there- v. hruhout IBaasri In hlgeyo, walked forward av4j-.i- n i,e nswered.' His word." II ile 'l Bl III III! f II Ill'll. II' ' of being a then looked down at the rose blooms on the carpet would have to be an" Identification and the state of yjr irfKat tlme so Altc .. p'-'rou'- d - - take that on Itw face, Pvne?" prompt. 81 bl feet. JIUnoia etiir held a bMr errant egetnst her on ah "Do' you want to go Inside-now- , v governor?" he ',. ! Be a talking-mxet . She must fight It . bean working good." old indictment for shoplifting. . Th warden 4161(1 out his hand, 'for the paper d black felt hot. -j- d, reaching for he 1 want to get out. S1one. chin' years. .. . . twenty offered him and wrnte ?,T with said mint In a his.iqaaxeieU Just little, the other ; '.'Well, - - ytefeer etered. Tie" wee flabbergasted The Cluck tered no- - was dilating Its hcsvy -signature beneath, the recommendation for-- a kls etemal lawyers manner of Judicial weighing of sereitive nostrils of nostrils onceThe beautifut, flies ticked, th buzcoj and screen, th first decisions pardon. all questions, problems and wgnst "Suppose 'gr; 7 Beauty Joe; she was meryllees to her sense of smell last he said lnnulrfhgly atid hopefnny: - Hzsdock looked at him with ihs expression of I Uk trn with you thoge- - two pardona - a starving dog that has hen offered food. It whipped into a search for , heliotrope T SSdTHsybe v onfnotheart. Haedock?" .drummed., r ."Fyse looked up qulcklv ends then After ten daa when she bad calmed.a ISttis. gut. another reason, The goverror said: "Hasdock:" sharply. The prisoner did on the deck, " bear, hot he was thinking finger-tip.with ht hcavyeqUsre-en- d . He earn back from one of her fearsome excursions "State It." "TeS. sir, wrote you" k of her opsri- Number HO glanced quickly loward- th war. She fried to pet her key Into was the little- - house that I built,-b"A between men said 'That the papers for- -" The gov,. sin obit ruction. I; fell suddenly, assent. nod followed nodded he 1 This was ment: and there there-waPyne den, with "Yea breath. for sir." a provided when her whest. looked at th deep oraor Ume. - And all these years here, when I knew by aaiing: ",You can tell Governor Mercer jurft as tinkling onto th floor In the dark corridor. When The governor added his signature to the His name?" "For Nttjbper on the level. me. He's told . she opened, the door the flood of light from the gas- "you annever set eyes on her, just the ame I knew she e and then. handed It to the prisoner, Hasdock,' the warden Id --Than k you. Pine, Mercer said. "And now- wag the beet of me and as separated from me and It, read It. trembled, wet hia lips with the red tip Jets showed all the undisturbed object .with which swered. . Hasdock th worst of me ondl the dirt of being mine. See? if his tongue, contrasting witb Ihs pallor of hia her. ayes wera so fsmil.ar. A tra.I of smoke, how-l"Why didn't you sign?" "It's my girl." ascending from a huge clam shell a Boo sent my overtime too since been " countenance, end p saved Jt bark.. The warden was one of those heavy men, Island on tbs table. She had been "Tour wife?" venir "Much obliged." he slid hugr!. and signaled here. Damn her little picture she wax mins anyWhen his ies looked at you aqusre of frame. "Wife?" Tho prisoners white, tine upgood .two hours and a cigarette butt was I; fling Its - how!" . nod from Pyn ho walked out, a If they left an impression of looking out ef square smoke In, the empty room. , She ceutd half grave, lower half grinning, turned suddenThe governor took off hts glasses and" w iped hi . nils xf associates a ed to call him Hello Perhaps his perblack. opeatngs. - His hands were bqusrs. HI mooth twisted into silent blasphemnot smetl tt ihe air was too much todan wiih a well said Pyne reflnrtlvely. th!n lips wlth the palm ol hia hand; 7 7 ming eras square. The men Inside, the lifers; the ly nSw bulged her nostrils and as uddeafy, at If a storm had pass-- " Why recogn'srd odor which "Heliotrope rf exclaimed the governor. lag a sentence. The .warden, however, brok In, tho fhoorrigtble. and even th forgers and ies. And thin a cleared braes bad fear benevolent with sent her as a sway 'If ed. dizzy ss.it had erce soothed hyr T J ; Ilk sylcg: H!ktrop Ity sad embezzler whom Pj ne could never callr - J blanket of potoonotrs vapors, a light sprang Into hia moment, governor. Let him finish "I never wanted to ask him." replied the war- - and rent her dizzy with Joy of Wain day long ag Wait jnucb nor believe quite .as promising, from - the when ho came back to her." , It appeared to spring Hasdock looked PP. f het Tve stretched my-h- den, sd Ira "8quare Mike behind his back, believed In countenance. . bed whers b could Nfv ptsr except tinder th batteries of Jong days of affection th af- - arms ut In dark of the cell a million time. But storage reform beosaa he not with him, Us, a fat. sprawling, terror--- feetton which grows with slowness and silence, Hk who one bors I hs ns ms ofCleo hida' She fU on her fee Tbs.wom tot that go.' You dont care nothing about none of , jall TSttm warden, but bectus ha actad aquara. a eedxr "tree, resist not. becomes beautiful Of Hasdock. Johnson and a h lxd. painted cresiure. yellow with fear. He W- bis eon versa tlon comes In squar block." not there. age, points lo ths "Who?" Stotz, and wss known ntUl better as Joe. did not llv ' Eddi ones said ef him. She crawled along the. floor to the hall And In a boarding fcousa She hHgone back to ber old "Let it pass. I say," tbs prisoner repeated . ,And now Pyn answered squarely. T wanted bis sellIts Alice," h said la a whisper, as If this was tinkling down. picked op the object She had adventures In "piking from the dop sheets" while then he added: "I dont moan no ofyon lo setju." .lalMBIk buck governor. I wanted eeason wss on. Good fortune had varied Tt wsa a skeleton key. . . . H had been and,, comes down 10 wjy. want to get out. fense. the it racing mu yourself. Jt Wss hs th man who begged, ' Tse, sfr, ity daughter." gone! Ho had left hi word. It. Wax'Uka him X."- Thats what you want to know. Asd I- - told tho tho monotony of loss by giving Ver enough winfor pardon or a parol. My stara how he ho wait her Georgia: warden and he want me to tell yes. Only,, befor nings to enghre a tn lews We. apartment on th And rm witb him. Only there's A Yisk. bqpOod! Joe did- - not hesitate for a moment en hls'gfssms again and looked at I do. you gotta r that this girl aad bar happiness ground floor of a tenement around Jhe corner fromI rasdod to dodgs it. 7--X, Win ted to BUT the fespon-ClTt- T '"tfc " Yfsrcor put Best satchel from Under the In We hand. H said: "I dont Third Avknue. I: hzd privacy sad a kitchen prlr- . pulled the Imitation-leathall cissa sad free from dirt la my mm bet new typewritten a you." r . i . Sometime a man has. find anythin aboot mar Altee hors. Th ' Is staked on one Vet. But I tasw. Rs ao vh had. liked to do mors valuable thing and the best of her Cloth- - jFht'r Sunday Jnri ldes.7. tn afternoon In. Shs waa t ed to making a fun getaway girt, I bavsart sssa her every dar In her youth end her period of Snsklth isriasrif "No, ft don't. Everything get IS 0 that Talk srith him. Ha has N," said Hood or And HEJB8BI btoa th ns . she did not evea c oee the door upon her sbangsntl en woman In Pari, In twenty yqarw end shs never aqr asms.' But and onsnsring beauty, now goes for good, W s4 asasa tough , nex Nobody knows but ns. staked ea bar." Oa Benday morning she was Mtting la the roek- - pusssuslons. Afler all life hi, the sweetest f OSfJL;,-- ., Throo Uvoa- rwho's daad. Aad tha wardea. And her mother , everything 1 got T"v wn aA mom ex- - Vr by the window Bb had en a pink toweling alow. Mercer sodded, wbh-ria toco, Jen. ... .. It was raining outside" sad Ob was IksOt-T- . v wrapper Snd ber thin hoffhob SrttncJslIy block. Mf eon Id, Was twisted into a snarl and held balanced ever hor the 'prisoner W O. plained "-'X osold stand that, fCoattnuod on next pnt) tow forehead with on hairpin. Sho was la a fcnp- iv MB. m1 . Cal 4) n 'd j I " |
