The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-12-16

FUN penalty OF the law. 20 years I'm sins
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Twenty years in Sing Sing. Heaven
/ and earth" exclaimed Mora. pale with
/ fear.
"HssSen and earth will both be lost TO
you IL you do not comply with my
wishes You win be confined behind
stone walls. and the colonel will see to
II, l promise you. that executive elem
ency never reaches you until you have
served your time In full. Do you not
see that the only hope OF escape Is I'm
the marriage which ] suggest? Thus the
law would be satisfied. the colonel would
be satisfied, the girl would be Satisfied.
and, what In best OF all, your own con-
science would be satisfied"
Mora had started from his seat and was
walking nervously up and down the
room
You are right" said he at length. Il
will do as you wish
Very well SO much I knew that l
could compel you TO promise But wish
you TO do more than this am really
befrisnding you In this affair, and you
should feel some obligation. Lillian IL
sweet, good girl despite her present POSI-
ton. What she Is her heritage. her en-
vfronment and your mischievous schem-
ing have made her. But she IL full of
love for you. and she deserves not only TO
he your wife. but also TO be cherished by
you and be made happy. Do you not see
this yourself7 Is there not one spark OF
manhood about you which leads you 10
wish 10 make amends for the past by
Frightening this girls future? DO not
marry her merely because | compel you
TO do so, but do so. II you can. from the
prompting OF your own better nature. Can
you not do this?"
Mora was much touched and hung his
Ill. -.
exclaimed
81 have been villain. I see II all now
But | am not all TO blame. | had no
mother She died when l was child.
and my father-well YOU did not know
him; that is all i have 10 say. But l
will marry Lillian. and l will make her
happy. as heaven is my Judge. And
there's my hand on II. But stop. Per
haps you think that killed my father?"
IF ! thought so. l should not allow you
to wed this girl.
IT thank you. You are right I did
not kill the old man. though / had provo
cation enough and perhaps even thought
OF IL on the very night on which he was
murdered. He and had a terrible row
earlier In the evening"
AT Apollo hall. Yes: 7 know about
that. How did that end7'
He had foun out something about
my place down town and came after me
TO the dance. He asked me where the
Essex street house was. and refused 10
tell him. Then he swore that there must
be a woman in the case and that he would
find her and make trouble for her and
me. With that he rushed on, and | went
back upstairs 10 Lillian. I was talking
with her again, trying 10 smooth matters
out. when II occurred TO me that he
might come back and talk with the men
about In the barroom. Rogers especially
and that by bribery he might find out
where my place was. Then. II he went
there. he would discover the baby, and
heaven only knows what would happen.
So hurried UP to the house, and when 1
got there the baby had disappeared"
Disappeared"
Yes Nobody could tell me anything
about It,"
do you think that your father took IL
sway7'
II did at FIRST. hut when got back 7
found that the old man had not come
back and that no one had talked with