The advocate., 1894-04-04

ucIOuS IOOh, OUT DOlu6T, VINO was
known to be resolute and quite able to
take care of himself if assaulted, was
calm; and he, Kate, Grace and the
young woman who had been liberated,
repaired to his Office whence he imme-
diately telephoned for Dan Glass.
When the editor had arrived and had
been told what had been done, Bolder
said to him:
Here, Dan, put these letters in your
SaIe. Inc scoundrelS may try to break
in here and get Them"
AS he was handing over the bundle
of letters a photograph fell out, and
Kate gave scream as she snatched it
up.
"Is he your betrayer?" she asked in
agony.
"Yes, that is Charley Dugan"
Kate threw the picture on the floor
and stamped on it. Never before had
she been guilty of so vindictive an act
All looked astonished, but attributed
her conduct to her feelings aroused by
the young mans pertidy toward his
victim. Suddenly the young woman
looked up as if just waking from
dream.
"Oh-am 1 free? Can 1 go to my
child?"
"Yes,' said Bolder, "do you know
where it is?"
"Oh, must find it! | must find it'll
Let me out quick!' and she rushed
toward the door Dan Glass stopped
her.
"Hold on a minute! About an hour
ago, while you folks were monkeying
with the law, got note from a
woman saying that she had read the
account in the news and had gone and
got the youngster. Found it through
her WasherWOman. Her names Mason
"a preachers mother. Hold on! Here's
her address. She wants you to come
there and stay awhile. Better take it
in. l guess they're pretty good folks. "
And Dan handed the young woman
Mrs. MaSOn's note, and she haStened
away.
"Did l not say he was unworthy of
you?" whispered Grace Alden to Kate.
81 loathe the despicable wretch" re-
piled Kate with energy.
That night Dan Glass and Judge
BOlder attended a public meeting at
which the latter had for several days
been advertised as one of the speakers.
About 10 o'clock they and the sheriff
left the meeting which had not yet adj
journed, and walking slowly along, as
men will when talking politics late at
night, arrived at the corner opposite
the building in which were located
Judge BOlder's offices, when Bolder
observed with astonishmeut that bis
private office was lighted up, and that
a mans shadow was thrown upon the
blind. They were about to stop when
two other shadows appeared, one of
which the judge and his companions
were certain was that of the chief of
police; so at Bolder's suggestion the
three men walked on around the cor
ner without stopping and proceeded to
a livery stable two blocks below,
whence the sheriff telephoned to his
deputy to bring three pistols besides
his own and some handouts, for the
judge and his companions were agreed
that, as Bolder put it, "the thieves
were after those letters" The lawyer
and the editor then walked back to the
corner and started across the street,
when a policeman on the sidewalk un-
der the office windows suddenly blew
his whistle in a peculiar way and i'm
mediately disappeared. The two men
reached the office stairs just as the
chief of police and a patrolman were
emerging. The chiefs embarrassment
at this unexpected meeting was hidden
by the darkness, and with the cunning
of those whose life business it is to hunt
men and women, and even children, as
prey for prisons and scaffolds, he
instantly devised an explanation.
"Why, hello, Judge! l supposed
you were in your office. There's some
one in there. We've been laying for a
noker marty nm on the third floor We