Show IN SEARCH OF NIGHT FLOWER First Ofa Of a Series Of Prison Pison Tales By Kan Kain ODare Who Ha Has Spent t 15 5 Of His 38 Years In Prison T The Tho Th Night 1 I ic the tho th name I ga cave a to a a girl eirl I met In I II Kon Kan Slit She was WIlS a a girl tirl with a toil toil- tak mis-tak take and T J wu wi wiman a II man with Ith f than she 1 At the th time tim oI t our ur meeting i was an e Ie sP P J from the fed fe er J Ii JL a u e T S- S Sfa fa in Texas I f j jIn J i o lL I j had bun been i n iouI m I fJ tor for thi theft ot of o 20 20 13 In United z orders money t The Th girl tirl ws r Just a little Valt drifting along alOne In I life lite and hap hap hap- happened lIend to drift Into me m The Th night ot of J KAIN AIN ODARE our meeting m the th girl tin told one me re her hI story and I told her mine kind of ot spanned the th str tranger nt space apace bot between b n us and wo we w became I as AI kindred I Somehow or other I treated the I girl decent and ahe sh responded I like any crushed thing does that thatIs thatIs Is I handled bandied t tenderly Afterwards w e rot met In Kansas City It was wag a beautiful spring da and the Night Flower wanted to a ride ide into the country We W took the car at the corner ot of Tenth and nd Main Slain that runs rune over overto overto overto to Leavenworth where the fort tort I is and wh hero ro Is located the th federal penitentiary I I anta want anta see how It fels I told the little gIrl eirl by my toy side elde ld tobe to bo be on the outside of the th waits lookIng In Instead of ot being on the Inside looking leakIng I out The Tho little alt naif looked up u into my eyes ye and rave gaso me Inc one olle of ot her little sad She Sh nver no Said Much however She Sh had seen sen much how bow ever ver and that Mt was the th mason Teason In Jn Lu w we ee 1 strolled d UP Metropolitan avenue and with mY joy desire to look look In satisfied ue e returned othe This is nero the th chaplain o of the prison lives hues I told the M ight Flower Hes Hes He's done don man many a tine finC trick for tor me Lets Let's Let l-f to o In and call callon callon on hIs hl hi Ite Ife and the kids The Th chaplains chaplain's wire as glad riad to Sec se me and I thought It was a 8 nIce of her to kiss klis the lIo M Ight ht Flo Floer er like she ebo bo uld one ono of ot her own On daughters i While wo we w were w c con con the th cha chaplain came cam In from his hi office In the prison up the th strut Street str t We got ot ot to talking about this thil thin and that and before long the th chaplain knew how hw I had met the th Night FlOwer nw r and what hat bat we w thought ot of t each ch other I Its It It a good time Um to get d mar mar- ned ried married ried he saId aid Both ot of you start together th r this thie very day on to a I new anew roLd Folks Folk Fol 1 you'll find nd out that life lite lit is la sweet w et I watched th the Night Flowers lips s tremble tromble and then I saw the chaplain Ife wife's arms ro go o about her shoulders b I knew H I Iu u time to leave leav the two women alone I motioned the chaplain out ut of oC the tc room Wd Wed do It tt In to a 8 minute I told hIm but but th federal authorities In Texas want w nt nt me bad Dot Does Does the th girl kno know it 1 he asked askell E er I replied I think It was taa about an hour afterwards along toward sunset the Night Nl ht sro arose o from her knees knee In the th chaplains chaplain's study and went ent to the th window sod Ind looked loo across the til prairies Into the golden olden test est estI I went ent nt to her hr side sido aid and tool took hold of ot her hand han She Sho Sh turn 1 to me m with tears streaming down n her face I I 1 shall hall ala s stay clean she he said That night she returned to toKa Ka Kansas nos City I Th Tb best that I could do for tor her hr was to send her hr a beautiful beautiful 1 ful tul bouquet of white roses ro-es I ater Just jut before I toomy took too my train to Chicago so as to put more distance between me m and the secret erIce er Ice from Texas Teas she he said over the telephone The The flowers were beautiful God bl bless you ou and keep kep you W We 0 shall ahall meet met again I told her Months after I was apprehended and st sent nt to 11 the federal prison In Leavenworth For years y ar I looked okd through my mycell window to Metropolitan 11 aue e- e en n nut nue ue and pretended that the Night Jolo er r and I were wore out there walking under tinder spring skies Month in and month out the chaplain did his best to find the little littie girl who had bad arisen from I the ab ss and who ha had premised to be bo mv my wile wife Ite But to no avail aval I After I was wae al released I searched ery city In th the coun coun- country country coun- coun country try for tor her hr I In Portland Third street once I thought I saw w the flash of ot hOI boi golden hair In the th mobs below ny my nyI window When Wh n I gained rained the th street I I saw had vanished I I hav o searched up and down San o Chinatown town Den flen- D ver n-ver 1 ers er's ers Curtis CurtI street t back again arain to the corner of ot Tenth and Main Slain Iii 11 cranny Kansas City every evry very nook and cranny of ot Chicago and all of ot the places In New York where s fol folk are apt to find hidden stories and broken lives hues But Dut to no avail vail Some Som day I shall find my Night Flower Ma b be here litre Maybe there ther over ov r there thore where here I Im m in s sI I hearing her tar far cr cri I |