The advocate., 1894-04-04
"Did she gioe you the letters!"
This embarrassed the officer.

go to her room, and / found them
there"
"And you read them? Did she give
you permission to read her lettersH"
"We don't wait to be permitted"
sneered the officer.
"Where are the letters? Can see
them?'
"No-that is, may be not. I'm wait
ing for the chap that wrote em to come
and get em. These letters amt all we
know about her. This man wrote me
to keep look out for this woman and
to run her in if | got chance. Said
she was an adventures and was trying
to blackmail him about some letters of
his she claimed to have in her posses
sion, and I've sent him word we have
the woman and the letters.
See how this young country girl,
with nothing to guide her but her in
nate knowledge of human nature and
heart in sympathy with victim of
oppression, had overcome the base
shrewdn ,ss of this policeman and had
drawn from him a complete confession
of his contemplate scheme: She con-
cealed her feeling of triumph by saying
rehectiVely:
swell, will think of what you have
told me. Perhaps after all mag be
mistaken. 1t is all so new to me, you
know. have never been policeman.
shall think it all over carefully, l assure
you"
"Glad to hear you say it. l only
wanted to keep you from making big
mistake. Your motives all right, but
you've been deceived. Any time l can
give you any pointers as reporter, let
me know. 1t takes a plucky young
woman to be reporter. Wen help
you all we can, you know"
"Thank you, very much, said Kate
ciVilly, and the officer retired, bowling,
and smiling profuSely and hideously.
A half hour later, having first talked
the matter over with Dan Glass, Kate
was in Judge Bolder's office in earnest
conversation with that distinguished
lawyer and with Grace Alden, the sub
ject, as well as the result, of which con-
versatiOn may be inferred from the re-
mark of Judge Bolder:
"The scoundrel! | see it ALL. Some
young scamp wants his damaging
letters back and offers this rascally
officer a reward, and this young woman
was arrested for no purpose under
heaven but to enable the chief of police
to get hold of the letters and get the
reward. I'll see what can be done.
The scoundrel!
With the aid Of the information Kate
had furnished him, Judge Bolder drew
up petition for writ Of hGbeGS
corpus. He obtained the writ and
also had a subpoena issued requir-
ing the chief of police to produce at
the hearing all the letters in his
possession and taken from the young
woman's room. These papers were
speedily served. The district judge,
though q republican, was known to
have strong radical leanings against
police abuses, and it was well under
stood that when he issued a writ of
bGbeGS corpus it had to be promptly
obeyed or there would be trouble. The
young woman was brought into the
court room by the chief of police who
was accompanied by the city attorney,
an officer who always defends the police,
no matter how iniquitous and unlaw-
full their conduct may be. A city at
torney in Kansas would think you
dangerous crank should you seriously
suggest to him that he ought to rep
resent the people-not the police nor a
thieving council.
The prisoner, not having been in
formed of what was going on, did not
understand the proceedings, and
thought she was to be still further op-
pressed by the law which is said to be
for the protection of the weak against
the strong. She burst into tears. Both
Bolder and the benevolent district
Judge spoke kindly and reasSuringly to
her, but this being so unexpected, after
her recent experiences, in anyone con-