The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-21

You are a very dangerous woman."
 The Court of General Sessions was aushed as Judge Foster addressed these words in tone of strong conviction to Mabel Parker, the prisoner at the bar. 1t was on Friday evening. The supersti- tfous shook their heads when the end of the trial came on Friday.
 The case went to the jury late in the afternoon. For hours it held the fate of the young girl in it's hands giving her the benefit of many doubts. About 10 o'clock the twelve men filed into the court room with the verdict of Guilty. but recom- mended to mercy" Guilty because of the facts, sustained by strong evidence recommended to mercy because the prisoner was So young, only q.
 The girl hardly quivered under the yer dict. The sentence to the Bedford Re- formatory for an indefinite period affected her not at all. She was prepared for that. and besides she had boasted that she was "a dead game sport" and she endeavored to sustain that character. But although she was a sport she was also a woman. and so when she heard her husband sen- fenced to ten years she showed the effect of the shock.
 Jim would have to do time. She had ex- pected that, and she was pretty sure be- forehand that she would have to give up hDCtLy TUT dWUllt, put SHe nHQ thought they would both get off with light sentences and that they would soon be able to take their places in the gay world again.
 Jim had been good to her. She said it over and over. as if holding to that con- fort when everything else was slipping away. Although she took her sentence so lightly, something touched Mabel Parker as she never had been moved before in all her ard thought of Jim's ten long years in prison Jim. who had always been good to her. At the best, he would have to stay six years and six months. She computed the time promptly he might gain by good behaivor. When she looked back over six years and six months in her own life 1t took her back into her childhood. ages ago it seemed when she was altogether a different person. It seemed an endless time-six years and six months.
 She tossed restlessly on the narrow cot in her cell the night after this doom had fallen and on Saturday she rose depressed and anxious After all, it was on her ac- count that Jim had fared so badly. If he had not perjured himself for her he would have come off lightly enough.
 Jtl "Lies Like a Gentleman"
 Suppose he did lie, she reiterated im- ratiently The lied like a gentleman. didn't IhOy always tdNO II lIlIO dCCOuhl when 8 man lies to save a woman."
 Remorse for having so readily agreed to let him sacrifice himself for her took hold on her and she became more and more hysterical, calling wildly for Jim and de- claring that they intended to take him off to prison before she saw him.
 There was none of the drugs. with the use of which she had become only too fa- miliar. for her to have recourse to in the Tombs-nothing but the dreary prison years to think of and agonize over with futile tears and cries.
 Husband and wife were permitted how ever to meet for a little while before go- ing their separate ways to undergo the penalty inflicted by law.
 "I am sorry on your account. Jim; I don't care for anything else" said Mabel Parker. and Jim told her not to mind.
 This confession struck the one note of womanIy tenderness in this young wo7 mans character. She was redeemed from absolute degeneracy by this exhibition of mingled remorse and affection, almost the only saving grace that she has shown in all her wayward. eventful life.