The Washington times., 1907-01-29
EVELYN ENDURED
BY THAN WOMEN
They COuntenanCe the Wife
So She May Save
Harry.
By DOROTHY DIX.

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-The two days
reprieye from the ordeal OF the court
room. and the agony OF listening. hour
after hour TO the district attorneys
iterated and reiterated question 10 the
talesman If they viii, upon their oath,
enforce the death penalty should the
prisoner az the bar be proved guilty.
brought rest and relreshment to the
ThaW family, and when they entered the
courtroom they looked less worn and
sad than they have al any time during
the trial
The lawyers for the defense have
vOclterously denied that there was any
breach between Thaw's mother and sis
ter and his wife. but appearances belle
the statement that the feminine MEM
beers OF the family exist lu turtle dove
attitude toward one auOher.
II becomes more and more apparent
that the THaWs have no love fOr Eve
lyns and that tLey endure her only be-
cause they must because she is their
trump card, the one creature who can
do more 10 save Harry than every OOdy
else combined ia the world.
As usual Evelyn, looking very pretty.
very pale and very frightened and mis-
cradle, and her chorus girl chum, May
ANA JE=. -.lu gelI- possessed 10 the FrI}
point uI Il71.elcy. and with her little
keen, Ratchet face, as hard ana IN
1i=lse IS a razor. came INTO court early
ana took their accustomed seats III the
TOW reserved Tor them back OF the pTis-
oner's little table
Countess Snubs Evelyn.
Ten minutes later Mrs William Thaw,
accompanied by the Countess OF Var
mouth and Mrs Carnegie. came in.
They swept by the Two eX-chOrus girls
without yesyige OF recognition, and
with some Itue hustle drew out a chair
and placed IT, not in the line with
Evelyn and May Mackenzie. but in
mont OF them, and Iu this the Countess
OF yarmouth seated herself. after which
she turned around and bestowed upon
her sister-Iu-laW and her friend a most
pronounced ana sarcastic bow. so frigid
that II lowered the temperature in the
already chilly atmosphere OF the court
room.
Harry Thgw also came into court
looking brighter and better for the two
days rest He is growing more cheer
Iul, and his face Is losing a little Of
its prison Pall0r.-. For thc most part
he Is quiet as a stature Iis sits at the
head OF his little table the long diy
through with his eyes travelling To the
lace or lnr Judge. 10 the faces of the
jury 10 the ia 20 "a Jerome walking
hack and forth in his little irclosure.
and insisting on the harl I'D law OF a
life Tor a lite Co the aliruiets watching
him. m their turn, with eyes that re-
feet his very soul and then his face
settles into an expression that is be-
coming habitual with him
Where Checkbooks Are Weak.
1t is an expression Of dreary wonder.
of dreary. hoTcless bewilde5ment. 5'or
the first time be cannot settle for the
wrong Re has done with check. For
the nrst time hc has c5.ae 70 an end
of the purchasing power of money
In our -money-wo country
there is nothing short Of murder that
a man cannot square with check book
ana Harry ThaW early learned this i'm
pOrtant fact He dehed the laws of God
and man and then made good" with
an order on his banker.
But now he has come 10 the place
thing else than money and he Is like
man suddenly bereft OF the gods in
which he had trusted. He had not
counted on facing death or its horrible
alIeTnatiYc-the madlouse. Some way
some how. he felt that the outraged
laW would not deal hard with a million
ARE, that things would be smOothed
over and that his d0ting old mother
could pay him out OF this scrape as she
has paid him out OF so many others.
AND she cannot do il. And Il bewilders
him,