Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-06-28

Strings. lie was lOOhlnS uoNH at
Boys sister. whose feet did not touch F,
tho ground.
oh! yes" she said resignedly. and
that's the reason bring him out here
50 that he can cry without making
mother feel bad. Mother and talked
things over for nights aud nights. try.
ing to arrange something for Boy so
that he wouldn't feel quite so bad, but
we couldn't think of thing. You
don't have very good times when your
daddie's away, do you? If 1t wasn't
that talk over everything with moth.
cr-every single thing don't know
what we'd do
The tall gentleman in the other seat
looked away down the path.
4 pathetic little long.gonc vision rose
up out of the past, when he had not
been successful nor sclf.made. II was
vision OF a raw country boy going
home from church through the moon.
light, under the whispering trees with
a timid little hand on his arm.
The boy had devoured the sweet in
nocent young face beside him with
hungry eyes and had hated Frank Yam
cGy in his heart for having woocd and
won her before he had n chance. II he
had seen her first he told himself she
would have taken him, and he tossed
on his bed all that night torn with
Jealous rage and love that could never
be told.
No matter-that was long ago-he
came to the city next morning and en-.
tered upon his career
when he thought of her during the
next few years II was to thank heaven
that he had escaped marriage which
would have kept him a grounding TO
the end of his days.
But now, as he looked away down the
path. somehow the old thrill went "a
his heart-he felt the light touch on
his arm making leaping madness in
his veins. aud saw the moonlight drift
ing over the brownest hair and the
blusst eyes in all the world.
His own eyes dlmmed at the mem
DRY of It. Well II was long ago, and
he was successful among men, but
there had never been another might
lil;a that.
oh, dear, If daddie could only come
home" was the tired little sigh that
awakened him.
lie started and turned to see Boy
asleep on his sisters lap, while tw,
tears rolled slowly down her THU
chCeka.
/. "You--you mustn't cry!" he STAN
. mered. Perhaps"
, 81 don't let mother see me cry" she
. replied, smiling up at him with a child
ish womanliness that broke his heart
He snatched his hat from the bencl
. and started up. looking at his watch. |
, there were only time!
Look here" he said with an excite
; ment that he had not felt for many I
long day, you go home and--and tall
, things over with mamma, and tell he
: ask her II she remembers Mr.. Flo
MAINLAND tell hcr-wcll, tell her tina
q your daddie isn't without friend aft
! or ALL"
II there We're only time!
Forty minutes arterward he wa
, pushing through throng Of spectator
that crowded the court room and eS
tended into the corridor outside. Mel
: stood on tiptoe to peep over one an
others heads that they might catch
, glimpse of the prisoner who was no
with the strikers, and yet had don
single.handed what some of them Ions
: ed yet did not dare to do; who ha'
, kept persistent silence during his In
prisonmcnt, and who refused to en-
ploy lawyer, though he knew himsel
to be in dire extremity.
Q Ten to one his neck'll stretch sal
/ a man In the door as Floman pushe
2 by him. He heard the whisper, an
3 saw the dark looks cast upon the prlS
-Oncr; then he walked across the cour
t room and took his place at the prison
;. orF side.
He was just in time.
4 Does any one represent Frank Var
D cey?' the Judge was asking, and Flo
man stood up,
!. II do. My Lord" he said.
r There was moment of amazed $
v lenCe, broken by an excited whlspo
4 that went around the courtroom.
n Floman had taken up this case, tn
@ great Fl0man-why-then
People who saw him saw he stoope
). and whispered word in the stupefe
h prisoners ear and clasped his hand
Then he arose, with head thrown II
d and lips set, and those who knew hii
/. knew that there was q battle in hanC
What that battle was Is still remen
Q bercd and spoken Of with thrill {
II pride by those who watched its prot
,, ress; who heard the examination an
II cross,eXamination OF Witnesses; VIII
wept and laughed for two hours, swa,
r ed by such oratory as Floman had ne
er uttered, and as they had neve
9 heard.
It II he had been famous before, thos
4. two hours left his fame doubled, Il
D. the jury returned verdict of not gul
I ty without leaving the box, and hotl
5. denied afterward that they We're und'
k a spell. When the verdict was rel