| Show f OF ANTHONY TRENT TRU PTER XII XIII-Continued XIII Continued 26 26 I sat ant for tor a few tew moments In to InBe t I bad been condemned to Be this forgot forgot- because m ed l bad oaf malo sub D ded yb some strange cerea cere cere- ded r 0 the real man maD Tie Tale p as a too much EM to grasp E 8 gal 11 friends stand by met me dB dal soy aal B rated asked I brokenly r shook his bead head doctor It e of sympathy developed Sutton Im I'm afraid your l deserted you In Ill the hour bout of ot wife help belp Ue lie tremat trem trem- dot my lIb anxiety doctor looked at him with a 8 an aon n o on OD bis face forgot forgot- incredible youve you've teems seems She has divorced 1 you No NoD hit It expected to t stick lUck to a lifer uter o D U II asp aspI I 11 fon forced d themselves e through Even en Notice Natlea for whom ft l eyes erea aside him d sinned bad ad thrown the doctor went on talk talk- I pan pause sentence was due dueour exceptional t I stubbornness The Tile Judge our oar to confess contess Yes res be added td ed you roo veil rely ei I i 1 think It If you had bad made madea had bad a 8 have e D a breast ast of It U you'd lIkely light sentence SOD D Grant GraDt gripped the edge of J New hope was born borD There of ot reducing his term 1 be a e way wal Do or be he cried excitedly If It I 1 were willing to make oppose appose now It would help helpt considered the matter e t doctor t I not Mt to say soy off orr testimony would help belp t I your jour ne ae e said the doctor What do zeal U by my lilY testimony log CD 1 could say you found me of the tile past You could i I wit was a different man at the theand ini and Ind that I ought to bave have another rt rid old your jour horses the doctor said lag uliS I 1 couldn't testify to any any- of or the kind All 1 i could truth truth- declare Was as that you pretended didn't know who you were and to substantiate your truth or ort ory t y 1 making up your bed like one tad hid never done It before Now ire ate e an educated man and you iou t I to be able to eee see my side Eide of It you yoa this How lIow long would 1 I here bere If it I believed belle the tale of all In Sing Sing I 1 God 1 Grant cried you cant can't fm lying I bJ not r the doctor retorted Do It would be the first ble lie He I 1 have ha listened to tot I 1 sup sup- ire se get the pl pick k of the best Grim Grim- brains In the country In Sing ind and they're most roost of em era Just as asas as us to better beller their lot as you Im I'm to these stunts but I never lose loset losel t l In 10 them that's why I came a bat new one you were trying int nt nl wati watched tied the doctor cross t to td cell tell door He lie felt that with him would step Into Inlo the corridor not notto to return or be called callert anxiously Just Do you know anything t the Ibe action of a drug they call j In h the East 5 1 Be I e physician did not open the cell De Re turned and looked with red red re- re tod d Interest at ot the convict con know all oil shout about it It he said sold 1 I ships ship's surgeon before I 1 came and ind r Ive I've e seen all I want wont to of ot esh Why got In 10 the habit of taking It Do o t I think It might have hn robbed m me met t f mind 1 our mind said the doctor He lie ed e to have e a n contempt contemN for the lay layor or of f eq expression limply dont don't remember anything has happened I never ne saw SO you t I I never tr saw that guard and w tr says lays he has been this on cor cor- for for a month tars tar's t's ts very ery Interesting comments comment comment- s e other Olber The drugs drug's real name ambit Indira Indica or Indian Hemp Itself In many ver very ge ways wars perhaps according to toe toree ree e of cf purity Is 19 this another or Dr facile excuses nt ont anything make you yoo believe t Walled failed d a thing said n. n Ity the doctor octor you yoo were sincere you youa d d make ake a confession properly d 1 and not these sniveling ex ex- you yon are trying on me It bats bat's J lust w what h Rt I want wont to doh doled do t Cried led excitedly Ill III I tell you h g I from the beginning arent aren't th the e time or Inclination to I b hose enough to keep me met that a t R there any J justice I ce or e feel ICel the prisoner exclaimed claimed Joo n ha C commented the of at had a a. a perfectly J f fair tr trial yon n t I I h wont won't on t understand that at it f Who w at tried Tile The h man who Jib ah had my body but that green it If drug was talking not you H d do dont don't n Dt t thInk hulk listen to 0 me J you o an or of yourself as a mind mind- III saw that II the Ie doctor was Im b kT I t to 0 d do 0 with wh m. m KV me he tall and I the board It a up to 0 the theOs Os 00 lard ot of pardons Ill I'll What Wha a a 1 I do HI thIef go and see Rt R. right away woy That let lete me meau hurried burrle eft au 5 0 0 n na came and e at r lau ut this time he saw In sawery ul ine f nee Presently ery 0 the who was 0 June came In with a an male Uy B WYNDHAM W MARTYN Copyright by Bar a WOT Ian service Ie stenographer The doctor came back backwith backwith backwith with them Grant Graat looked upon apon him himas himas himas as a friend and was glad He fie poured out his whole tortured soul to them Oa tie concealed nothing he the relief he felt was amazing Through all the devious lous way ways I by which he Bad set ret out to trap his benefactor bene bene- factor actor they followed him They learned why Sophy McKinnon bad had ter farm given ghen her ber the name of the man who falsified the entries was set down lown and that hired hired- gangster who had for fora a few pieces of silver thrust a loaded revolver In Captain Buttons Button's n pocket was written In When the typed statement was brought back In buck In an nn amazingly short space of Payson time time Payson Grant sl signed ed edIt It eagerly It was not a confession that he be felt he was signing It was a document which might lessen his dreadful punishment Of Of contrition there was no trace Ue Ile found round himself him self already relying on the promised promise help belp of the physician Its my firm belief beller the doctor declared declared de do- Glared to the chiefs chief's secretary that this man does not remember a word that passed at his trial and I will teay testify testify tes tes- I to that belief belie before any Jur Jury of I mental experts In tn the country It will be a most Interesting case case As Grant looked at nt the signed Instrument In strument his eye fell tell on the date line He tie saw that It was given as September Septem Septem- ber bet 28 29 This Is rong v. v be he said sold anxiously have to correct the date dale lie Ue was not going to have bave the statement Invalidated by such an error Ue He l Grant Sat for a Few Moments Moment In Agony knew kne he could not be In to the wrong Sutton himself had hod stamped the date dute vividly 1 on his mind when he had hud declared declared de de- de- de dared that the seventeenth se as written written writ writ- ten teu In his threatening note should have ha read the twenty The notary looked at ot It and smiled I g guess ess that's near enough h. he remarked Like h I h-I 1 It Is Grant snapped tie flee appealed to the doctor Dont out worry about that that Mild 1 1 the doctor Theres Therell more than thon that to come Amazing Incidents crowded one upon another The little cell seemed suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly to have ceased to be occupied by hy dour hard men whose work fork was disciplinary The warder for Instance had his arm on the shoulder of the tLe doctor Boy nay said the warder whose face ns as he smiled was altered as though another man was there I 1 thought I was it It but yours Is the Ibe name that thaI goes In the electrics electrics' Grant was still too Intent upon getting get gett ting the date dale changed to have bave time to speculate en on the meaning of this He Ile saw v himself being put In to the wrong by a notarial error Doctor he urged this Is incur rest Ue lie felt his fate was In the officials official's hands The doctor alone could aid him bare bave to see the boss about this raid mid the doctor Dont worry youve you've done your bit He lie whispered something to the warder warder war warder der who left the cell ceiL He Ue was back within the minute accompanied by bJ Anthony Trent Treat suave and debonair You Ion You said BId Grant astonished How do you rou come to be beret bere At a motion of Trent Treat head the others left the cell o Grant rant noticed that he ie was wat scanning the confession When be ta had bad glanced through It he be put It Inan In Inan Inan an Inner pocket that to do with you rou 7 Grant demanded Do you yon remember that night before before before be be- fore you shot Sutton 1 I gave gaTe you the opportunity to confess You wouldn't do It IL Then later Swithin Weld asked you rou to confess contes but you refused Youve You've bad had to do It at last and It has bas cost me a great deal of trouble Cost yon you trouble Grant cried not wholly clear as to Trents Trent's meaning What has bas It cost me Trent Ignored Ign red the question It U has hus cost me a great deal mon mor than you think I 1 suppose you fOU know that you are In Ossining Grants Grant's nerves were on edge lie De felt tired hungry and In no condition to listen to Trent Treat And there thero was rising the feeling that there was some conspiracy In which he ho was Involved whose motives moU he could not Dot compre compre- head bend There are some things I 1 dont don't get clearly yet yet he be snapped but hu t I 1 know where I am even emi It If I 1 dont don't know how bow I got here Let me show you yon the secrets of ot your prison bouse house Trent Treat said lie He gripped the convict con by the arm and took him to the open door of the cell so that a view might be obtained of ot the corridors The cell which Grant had bod believed to be but one of ot a great block of cells was revealed as a solitary unit standing standing stand stand- ing In what had been a flower garden The corridors tan can only a few tew yards either side of ot the cell Just sufficient Indeed that no end of them could be observed by the prisoner Remorselessly Remorseless Remorseless- ly Iy Trent dragged him across the yard where be he bad had seen the convicts at work The wall on ou which the blue uni formed guards still walked was wu a athing athing athing thing built of board beaver plastered over The river was real reRI and Haverstraw I occupied her familiar site but everything every ery i thing else was constructed as 09 a moving move ing tag picture set The cell was more solidly built than a studio would need and the bars were steel Instead 01 ot of blackened wood At a little distance the convicts Grant had bad seen were sitting silting around talking It was the first ft-at professional engagement when they had not been up made or photographed Carpenters were en even now v beginning to tear down the wall None paid any particular attention to Payson Grant Only a afew afew afew few knew for what purpose the drama was staged ringed The motion picture extra Is not Dot u II curious person be he Is engaged engaged en en- for scenes possibly In the middie middie mid mid- die of pictures whoso whose ho title and plot plo Is 19 unknown The twenty men who had bad earned live dollars and transportation transportation tation bad no idea that they had been assisting a bit of real life They only knew later that whereas they had been en engaged to 10 come for five dollars per diem they were sent home bome with twice as much Payson Grant suffered himself to be led to the upper room of the old mann man slon where he found the warder and others be he remembered too well IJ Your warder Trent began Is Mr l Joseph Clarke formerly city editor o oa of ofa a metropolitan dolly dally This Tills be he Ind sated caled the small man who had bad swept swep the passages and was FUll dill In prison livery Is Mr bir David Dodd More who ha hat bal been of great assistance In getting evl enI dente dense Trent next Introduced the theman man who 11 hud had 11 masqueraded as DS the doe doc tor This Tills Is my friend and attorney Fleming Dee Dearholt Then hell he'll be a disbarred attorney before be he knows it Grant snarled I 1 doubt It said Fleming Dearbo mode modestly and even en It If 1 I am I sta SHa SH st- a It great future before me on and stage Speaking as a lawyer lawyel your our confession goes off to the governor got gov error by special messenger at once What about your confession Grant cried What about the con COli conCession Cession Weld and Trent Treat will hue have i ii I. make If Im I'm to suffer for killing Sut SUI Sutton Sutton ton they'll suffer with me me II II turned to Trent Treat with flaming face fac I 1 accuse you of ot Introducing Into my room that night when 1 I wu Wit- on m the ragged edge with that Grim talk Fleming Dearholt turned to bl ht client with an appearance of concert concern Can this 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