The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-10-03
Written fnr the Auyoc lTk
A BOLD GAME;
OR.
WOVEN or MANY THREADS.
rs WELDON j. COBB, IN.
CHAPTER NN.
CHAPTER NX.
TN PRISON

q We tnd the prisoner guilty The
verdict rang out from the lips of the fore
man Of the jury few moments after they
had returned from the jury-room. The
2. ,.sinn was greeted with groans and hisses,
ana a conflict of the factions was imminent.
The courtroom was rapidly cleared, the
Jury retired and the prisoner, Robert Par
tuu. the alleged ncendiary was remanded
e. the common goal to await the sentence
Of the court at some future time.
The entire affair had been 80 quickly
effected that the young mechanic did not
realIze hls position. He saw the yelling
and hooting crowd Of men; he heard the
heavy iron door Of his prison cell close up
om him. and then amid the rIotuus yells Of
bis friends on the outside and then he at
tempted to reflect
He was for the time being almost
stunned. We knew that Edwin Amory
had raised tide Of popular prejudice
against him among the wealthler Inhabl-
tants Of the village. but he had not antici-
pated that the jury would decide against
him. He now saw the pertidy of the man,
aud he was astonished at the que kness
and clever hHcSse of the book Keeper who
il was now evident to his mind had 50
preludiced the Jury to secure a verdict
against him. The vlndictive and entire
enmity of the man stood fully revealed to
hun, and he wondered how ia the face of
such evidence in his favor the jury had
adjudged him to be guilty. He was now
poverless, however, and he gazed me
chanically at his surroundings, and won
dered if it could be true that he was in
deed the inmate of a prison-ceu. He re-
viewed the entire past-his mind swept
over the past as vlvidly as if he were viev-
ing a scene, and he recalled all his strug-
giles for the privileges and the rights OF
the workingman. He knew that 1t now
looked as though he had indeed failed, yet
he had faith in the energy Of his fellow
workingmen, and he resolved to abide
quietly the issues Of his present emergency
until the time Of his deliverance arrived.
Would it ever come, OF was he fated to
become a common felOn, a prisoner on a
criminal charge, for " long term Of years.
Then his eyes softened as he thought OF
his love for pretty winsome Ethel Tremayne.
He loved her but he feared that the rumOr
of his arrest, and the mention of the
charge upon which he had been incarcerat-
ed would have a tendency to lesser her re-
spect, if not positively forfeit her love for
MIN He was more annoyed at this than
ever, at the summary manner IN which his
case had been settled. He was lothe tc
accept the decision of the jury as tinal
one. new trial would evolve new facts
and he hoped at least for movement on
the part Of his fellow -workingmen, which
would obtain for him his liberty, and his
Just rights.
He was not disturbed i'll his solitude
contrary to his expectations, not even tht
jailor came near him. He was left t.
lonely meditation and silence, and hi
irksome imprisonment was beginning t.
n render his monotOnous incarceration
positive care. For a short time, he WA
at loss what to do, then, worn will
sleeplessness and the weariness of the Oc
casion he fell to sleep upon the rude bencl
in his cell, and slumpered peacefully aDC
long, unawakened by any one.
He awoke with a start-awOke to see be
fore his cell door the jailor, behind whom
stood woman, closely veiled. As tn
door swung back on it's heavy hinges, ant
the TAILOR withdrew, the form came for
ward revealing a person whose presence h
had so longed for.
One word only escaped his lips, and tia
word was
Ethel T.