The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-12-27

dom again, pursued the lallOr.
The prisoner sighed YEARLY.
"a man gets hardened to this sort {
thing" he said. 81 have been here Q
long that have not single ambition 9
to my future"
''You are q queer one," said the jailel
modestly. Il don't know man who ha
refused the little offices which those VII
do not regard them as criminals extend a
you have done"
IL am under no obligations to any pei
sou, was Eugene Allerton's reply. / hav
been comparative stranger desire t
leave here the sa ne.
"l have a newspaper here which yol
might like to read, said the jailor.
The prisoner extended his hand.
IL am much obliged for the favor" h
said
The jailor went ON and the prisoner
seating himself upon the bed, glanced owe
the contents Of the paper
he was reading a portion of the pape
devoted to gossip and news, when he start
ed from his seat, loud cry of anger ant
woe ringing from his lips. In q vortex o
rage he beat the iron bars of his cell door
and new color, long foreign to his ordi
narily immobile features, came into hi
face.
Then, exhausted, he seated himself upor
the bed again, and sat staring at the wal
opposite.
"A name, only name = he cried. "Am
I | man to remain here and that woman Al
liberty T.
More cody he took up the paper and
4 read few lines The words were an fol-
4 lows
Maritoba steamer arrived few days since PAssen
ger, Samuel Arnold, Robert Brown, VASE EVELYN
BEATRICE DURASD-."
II was that name, Beatrice Durand, in
connection with that of Vane Evelyn. He
knew that it was an assumption
that it was the self-same Yer
non, who had ruined his life and
brought to him the confinement and the
woe which he had SO long endured.
The second time, however, he did not
lose the best Of the sentence, which read
as follows
&C Colonel Adams and daughter. and party from
Cuba. comprising, etc, etc
Colonel Adams Myrtle Adams
What thrill ran through the man 5
VEINS, As he read the nsmes-what an ar
rayed host of the most bitter memories
were regnant in his mind as he was re-
called To the remembrance of that event
ful past in which he was to Myrtle Adams
lover in one respect, at least. As man
not wise IN worldly affairs, he had been a
tool ct the woman who had brought him
to his present position. Now the paper
before him indicated the return Of both
the Colonel and Beatrice Vernon from
abroad, the former from the far West.
California must have yielded to the Colonel
wealth, but how came he and Beatrice Yer
non, the base, unprincipled intrieuante
and the base adventures, upon the same
steamer
The man was III confused maze for
some time, and then the dawning Of some
firm determination within his mind made
itself manifest upon his face. He arose
from his seat and paced the floor in medi-
tative mood, the wild glare in his eye be-
coming subdued to thoughtful expression
of the most earnest cogitation.
He examined the walls of the cells ac-
curately, he measured the length of the
little window which let the light from the
yard into his cell, and then surmounting
his bed, gazed down into the yard below
1t was not cheering prospect for pris-
oner, and yet grim smile of the greatest
satisfaction crossed his features as he COW
ertly drew from his pocket file, rusty and
old.
They told to the daring public the next
morning how the bad and bold occupant of
the deserted cell had filed his way to lib
erty, and had gained his freedom by drop
ping from the cell window to the stone
paved yard in the court below. He was
gone, and whittier no one knew.
Morning saw man footsore and weary
miles and miles from the city of Philadel-
phia, seated on the bank Of q river, draw
ing from his tattered prison garments a
roll of money,-piece after piece of gold.
1t was not a day thereafter that all trace
Of the escaped convict, Eugene Allerton,
seemed entirely lost, and yet he was not
so very far from the officers of the law as
they supposed, for a man in New York, at
tired in the most immaculate broadcloth,
and in the glimmer and glare Of the gas
lamps, crossing a street, a few nights after
the escape, gave utterance to an exclama-
ton of the greatest surprise, as he saw a
familiar, but long unseen form cross the
street opposite to him. The man was Vane
Evelyn, and his exclamation Of surprise
was, as be caught full view of the face of
the well-dressed stranger,
Eugene Allerton !"