The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-09-23

I stranger. even TT NJ were hNl" 70 tAtAr
boz bad no food for conv ersatiOn. ne did
I noi know what was happening anywhere.
ie fhrank against the door. with his
Z face turned % the window.
The sent opposite 20 his was empty. and
the wafder moved down the carriage and
7 took o. Now az last he was recognized.
/ SON the wardor said not a word.
The train rolled slowly on. 10 was not
le the Donylch had persuaded himself 90
must De- au express. but a lolai train.
making the tour 81 the suburbs. When
T BE- began 60 s.ackcu speed again the man
7 tried 10 brace himself Tor a rush but ne
found that his limbs hld no power T.
ohsy hiss viii b. sat under thc horrid
spau Of the wardcr Opposite AMI could not
move.
The train crcaked into tho station. and
stopped. and. as loo u dream. the man
beAsld Dts g. How passengers leaving the
carriage one hy one che little girl in the
white frock ard an % them hc sat and
watched them SO. and dared not and could
rot follow them. TIE guard slammed the
] door. tht train was once more Ia motion,
und the man ana the wardcr were alone.
/ This must b. the situation the warder mad
/ been waiting for
Tie held zap his pipe ard said: "Can
Z Won give me lizhtF"
Why would people torment him hy ask
ing for things which thsy must know he
could not possibly p1sses@2 a convict has
40 money and mo- matches; u match
were found On him he would be severely
punished. Eut this reflection was nt once
driven from his mind byl- another and
much more vital one. IL was that this
ward iid not belong 90 tho prison from
which De- had just escaped. That had
never struck his thought until the warder
spoke This warder was attached 10 the
stan Of a great prison in the south. where
I the runaway had served three years o.
I his sentence. Perhaps. after all. he had
/ forgotten him. perhaps he did not even
! know him.
NO" the man replied. he had not a
match about him Now. would his voice
/ betray him.
/ seems 20 me" said the warder. look
I ing him full IN the face. seems 20 me ]
/ ought 20 know YOU What's your name
How horrible the man could not recall
I his own name. THIS must be fatal ana
I Lc gave himself up for lost
you're harrington. Amt your contin-
l ued the warder.
Barrington' Charles Barringtonl Yes.
that was his name. lie nodded.
All Just go. Let me seq was Il nVe
/ years or seven, your little lotf
The man bethought himself that II his
sentence had been only five years h.
would have fegainei his liberty before
/ this; and De answered Five p
Kept out Of trouble since, i expect
/ pursued the warder. You weren't the
sort 10 come back 10 us, Why ! remem-
her YOU at Trentlands. You were In the
stone cutters PARTY for goodish DIX
/ Did your time well. too; though YOU gem
uemen lags often give a deal OF ttou-
! BILE"
All this time the convict was In very
agony OF tremor should the warders
memories carry him point or two fur
Their h~ might still be unmarked lie must
| quilt the train at the next station
lie had now no notion where he was
but his main hope lay ia the distance 10
/ which the train must by this Time nave
carried him from the prison
As IL slowed once again. he viewed the
! scene beyond with all the hope that h.
/ could muster. Below the line OF railway
\ ON one side. "a long street stretched yellow
| with harlng lights. booths and stalls on
/ either hand. an open-air market crowded
/ and busting On the other side oil lay
\ dark. a. though fields began there. sud
denly che warder said. There's no hope
| for Gladstone. I supposef
Gladstone" said the convict is he
m2'
.Ahar' exclaimed the warder. II
thought so Gladstone's dead and buried
las, year. just began 70 suspect some
| thing Ny man. you've got loose from
| Wardloeki You'u come with me-
The prisoner wrenched open the door
and leaped from the carriage. The plat
| form. as he alghted. was perfectly quies,
| hut he thought 30 swarmed win people
| who had rushed 10 help the warder His
senses had left him. his plan had been 90
make toward the left. IN the direction a.
he supposed Of the open country, instead.
| ne sprang across the line. fung himself
over che wooden barrier OF the platform,
and slthered down the steep bank into
| the teeming market.
MS name was Kissed into his car az ev-
cry step. he felt an about him the pur-
| .ucrs whom ne could not SEQ. The market,
/ as he Thoughts. was thronged With races
hostile 90 him: under pretcnse Of buying.
mo peopie had come out 10 look for the
convict who had escaped. Yet how should
| they know H. at this infinite distance from
the prison? For now the flaming streets
| with lts huddlcd, noisy market had taken
OF the ineamcuts Of "a little town LEAGUES
away. IN the dark north country Where
| ne had lived boy.
He looked at no one yet he saw every
/ body. The people put themselves Ia his
way as he walked for he did noe dare 20
run: they were afraid 10 arrest him, but
they were doing this 70 hamper him un-
/ al the wardcr should come up. Ills mind
ran wildly on the best means OF getting
| unobserved into the country; no knew the
market street should terminate in bridge
| across "a river: and just over the river
/ were fields. and there was wool not
| milo away. But the market extended much
/ f,rther than Il used 40 do. and tho peo-
ple kept pusting themselves IN front OF
| him.
lie tried TO think Of those whom he had
known Ia the town. 81 was 20 odd there
| sbouia be- no one friendly To him. Then
n. remembered what disgrace ne was
in: he had brought shame upon his fam
/ lis. he had no business out OF prison
they an wanted him TO be sent back.
/ he burned with shame; q was mon
| strous of him TO have returned where be
was So well known on the very night that
| no mad broken out Of prison. just then
/ be caught "a glimpse Of man whom no
| knew, aud tried 20 get near him. The
| man was standing at a stall, and az ne
turned half round the convict recognized
the tramp he had spoken 10 in the Gene
terry Perhaps u he were 70 give the
| trump the sixpcncc he had found on the
pnth ne would be friendly to him again
| ana help him away. He pushed forward
| and touched the sramp on the shoulder.
The man turned and stared at him.
| then shouted; This Be- him. This Is the
man that's wanted. lie robbed me. He
stole sixpence on me. stop him! Stop
/ him.
For the convict had taken to his heels