Show ho 0 who cu r umee ba r ck jack woodfard THE STORY influenced by loneliness without relatives or real friends in chicago lolita forbes you young n K anil and pretty yields to the imbor wattles unities of harvey torrence torrance win walh whom the she fancies herself in love she d discovers iscove rs ills his true character and leaves leave 1 lit him m taking refugo refuge with an acquaintance gertrude Ger watson loftin Is accosted by thop th son of the wealthy owner of the th apartments fred Writ watterson terson slit sli repulses his advances but he insists on driving her to the store on the street torrence Tor renca Is w waiting ait lie he puts tile the worst construction on Loll taa being with will wat ter torson so n and the two men engage in a battle in which torrence Is killed CHAPTER ill III continued 4 allow the h 1 do I 1 know responded the matron with a shrug g ns as site she set the things down upon one end of the bench which let down with chains upon the other side of the cell jou been mixed up with so d n many of them you probably remember which he was it if you seen him lolita winced slie she looked up nt at the hard face of the matron it was tile the hardest face that she bad ever aver seen to in her life do you really believe that im as had bad as the lie papers saya say site she asked incredibly the matron smiled ill 11 II I 1 no kid bid ive handled enough hard ones in my time to know better than that you cant fi ha such a bad kid yet but youre batching cati Zat ching liln up on the worst I 1 ever saw pretty fast with that she slammed the door and was gone lolita was so heartened by her words however that she ate every bite of the breakfast and finished just in time for a turnkey soon came to the cell yer wanted upstairs lie he re remarked marked laconically her heart thumping lolita followed the man upstairs and into we the office of the station captain Sl Si down snapped that individual a large man with a paunch you told this harvey guy to wait outside the grantham and beat up young soung watterson you 11 NL mo 01 said lola horrified at the though 1 I 1 dont lie to alner roared the captain to in a voice which seemed to cause the ery floor door to vibrate lolita shrank back into her chair if yon son do that went on the captain as though he felt that lie be was stating a self evident truth you told 1 young watterson Watter sun that you was hooked booked y up with this flarey guy so deep that the only way you could break with him was wae tor for him to croak him oi oil no sir it all happened just as I 1 told you yesterday I 1 youre lying to me mell I 1 roared the captain capt aill again again lolita shrank back into her chair never in all of her life had she been tallied allied to like that slie she had bad never bever dreamed that there were men on earth who would talk that way to a woman with horror she began to understand that the situation in which she had placed herself had put her beyond the pale of polity people did not no feel any necessity for treating her as a lady the captain suddenly leaned toward tier ingratiatory sall in ins tell you what ill do kid ill get you out of this whole hole bilings turn you yon loose and everything it if you if come clean about the whole affair give me the lowdown low down just tor for my own information I 1 wont suy say nothing to nobody and be sprung this Is on the level im sorry sir she began and shrank back again as the kindliness immediately began to fude from his ht eyes but its all 1111 just as I 1 told you yesterday I 1 told you the whole truth then and nothing but the truth really dr youre a hard boiled baby he told her st sternly brilly you know how to keep your trap shut ill give you credit for that but it aint going to do you no good whet they get you over to court because bellere believe that hot bull you slipped me yesterday and the lie budgell lud Jud gell hand ban you a couple extra years for alyin to him oil oh but please began lolita the tears sk streaming reaming now down her cheeks slie site could feel herself trembling nil all over as though with the ague the captain ignoring her turned ills his back and ami pressed a button on his desk at al most immediately the file door opened and tile the turnkey motioned for her to fol low him film back downstairs down stair in the coll cell again she lay down upon the bunk and cried as she had never cried before in all tier her life slie she remembered the night before how gertrude had convinced her that even despite her misstep she was free to wort work back along the road that site had gone to be somebody yet rill bill gertrudes easy philosophy had been specious life as easy us as that A one jui break moral laws nt at will and then when you got if tired red lot of it tern around and go right on where you had bad left off before your moral vacation akere was the piper to to pay and the pipers tee fee was at al ways more than adequate darkly tier ber mind kepi presenting pictures picture of the state penitentiary at jollet joliet worn wom en doing the coarse food courser gongs with walh ashud dering horror ohp he forced tier mind to busy itself allm lt other Ili logs that thai aile lii lid flirt riot dinv inv ll iiii r romild never slave have really pvc 1 vi ri 1 I 1110 lalni the now knew aalt eve hill tin the lilt lud that be was NV W N U service copyright lend made no DO real difference to her except as it tool liucc c upon tier her present pie she could neer go back to work at the r emporium m she could never work anywhere to in chicago again every paper to in town had contained tier her picture she could never go home again the elgin papers would have copied the stories there ans absolutely oo no lope lo in any direction suddenly pule the matron appeared again outside the door I heres leres nn an answer to the telegram you sent to your old man she sold salil crisply and handing the yellow eo ea IV heres an answer to the telegram you sent to your old man delope through the bars withdrew lolita loftin opened the envelope with trembling eager fingers 1 I never want to see your face ace again the telegram read simply it seemed to lolita hours later that she looked up to see the matron bend ing over tier her a glass of 0 water in one hand and a bottle of smelling salts la in the other come come buck back up kid I 1 think your troubles may be over she said comfortingly for 1 or some reason lolita felt an uncontrollable desire to tough laugh aloud she laughed and laughed while the ma tron frowned down ut at her presently when she had bad forced herself to stop laughing she saw that bome one was waa waiting outside the tell cell door it was tile the turnkey terrified at tile the thought of again being questioned by the captain she grasped hold of the matrons matrona mat rons liand hand with both of her own its all right sold said that lady a little litile tle impatiently 1 I think youre sprung buck up and come along not knowing that the verb to spring means to release a 0 prisoner lolita followed along knowing not what to expect but this ills time lime slie site was not taken to the captains office she was taken out and rather unceremoniously shoved into a patrol wagon As tile the wagon rushed through the streets lolita lillta looked miserably from the small barred window dumbly appreciative precia tive of the fact that people were now looking at tle the patrol wagon and wondering on dering what site she had been ari ariestea ested for just as slie site abany many times had done slie site remembered what she had always decided women whom she had bad seen in patrol had been arrested for the he thought was overwhelming she burled bulled her fine face in her hands and wept bitterly one of the two policemen in ID the he wagon benned over and roughly patted tier her sh shoulder milder theer beer up kid lie he said in a kind ly manner its a writ of habeas corpus cornils hints taking you downtown the chances tire are be sprung never in oil all of her life had lolita been so grateful tor for a kind word and tone though she had no idea what the words tri meant cant A moment later inter the wagon stepped and lollia was assisted out passed through a gauntlet ot of cruel curious eyes and into a large forbidding gray stone building she was hustled into a courtroom and found herself before a judge who looked as ae though there was nothing but machinery back of his ees charge clit irge he be snapped at a city prosecutor who stood hy by apparently bored site she booked lie he replied well growled the judo judge sites here on a habeas corpus writ like to keep her awhile for questioning tio ning returned the prosecutor carelessly you had her for twenty tour four hours reminded the judge 0 K let her go agreed the prosecutor we can pick her up tip later for questioning if we want to enough evidence to hold her ought to he sent out to city lim hoppl pital tal for the usual examination though the judge was about to open hl his mouth when a lawyer stepped forward and said n few words which lillta did riot not catch the judge nodded ind and looked at her dismissed he be sald curtly the prosecutor looked queerly at the lawyer and then walked out of the room as though bored with the whole proceeding ce lillta stared at the judge dismissed he repeated impatiently sprung youre free for heavens rike what are you staring at the lawyer stepped to Lo colitas Loll litas tas side you are free to go child he sold quietly taking inking her arm and leading her toward the door but why have you done this for me she asked him dazed by the sudden knowledge of liberty when she hod had expected years of penal servitude meil me the lawyer laughed why I 1 did it for money of course my coy dear there was nothing to it they had no charge against you cut but who Is going to give you yoo the money dont worry ill be paid he assured her as they walked down the stairs was it young mr watterson or his father 2 nope nobody you yon ever saw to in your life in fact I 1 dont think you yon exer ever even heard of him they were out on the street now cow leading her to a taxi standing at the curb he opened the door and handed her in arid and after she had seated herself he suddenly handed her a sealed pave lope tipped his hot hat said a few words to the driver and disappeared in the crowd As the he taxi tail wheeled lillta tore open uie the envelope the first thing that greeted her astonished gaze was two one bills there was also a folded sheet of white note paper she unfolded this and read the typewritten words worda 1 I 1 hope bouve had bad a lesson that will last you tor for awhile you will be taken to a respectable rooming house your room rent thero there Is paid tor for some time in advance I 1 have hare tallied talked to the gertrude person and know exactly what happened the gertrude girl Is not a half bad little scout she told me what your ambitions were and I 1 have hare arranged to let you yoo take a whirl at putting yourself back on your feet but I 1 would prefer that you stay away from gertrude in the future with this money get some more clothes clot lies if you any others so that you will never have to year wear the outfit that the newspaper photographs photograph showed you in use the name margaret farrar for awhile until this thing has blown over and dye your hair and wear neutral glasses so you wont be recognized when you have thoroughly rested up go to the down town college of the southwestern ant versify ver sity I 1 haie hae paid your tuition in advance there for a year if you du do well I 1 may pay it again next year duat dont be a d n tool im old enough to be your fattier father and have no anten lions of tiny kind toward you if you dont do us its I 1 tell you ill wash my mf hands of you and you will probably get into worse trouble than you are already the least you can do in return for what little I 1 haie bae beben able to do for you la is to follow out my instructions to the 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