Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-01-12
DUKE OF
DEVIL
MAY=CARE
BY HARRIS DICKSON
Copyrights. 1905. by D. Appleton & Coz
CHAPTER xv-continued.
Author of
The Black VOLTS Breed" Etc.

seen in few mems, and never in a
woman's. 1t told him plainly that
her time for fear had passed, the
hour for endurance had come. She
shrank no longer, she trembled no
longer; the truth was out, it stared
her in the face, and she met 1t like
a woman of the Romans.
Joe tried to slip away.
WATT she said. And he waited.
| Halfway up the stair. she turned;
Joe was going out the door.
I'm just going out to see il I can't
catch a cab he explained.
She looked at him a moment, doubt
full whether he was telling her the
truth. CT shall go alone if you leave
me-"
Church bells pealed from every tow
err: worshipers hurried through the
doors, and votaries of pleasure strolled
along the promenade. In Gods vast
sunshine there was abundant room for
recIuse and for reveler, for flutterers
of fashion, and for the widows garb
of sorrow. The crowding people, the
banners, the gayeties of the streets,
all made grated cells and gloomy
prison yard seem more terrible to
Anita. Yet, If she changed color, or
hung back at the gate, even Joe could
not detect it.
Jimmy Fitz and the other officers
seemed much disconnected that she
had come; it was no place for ladies;
they were in the way. Fitzgerald did
not know what to do with her.
Let us sit in that little ROOM"
Joe suggested; where we can see him
when he's brought in. She thought
L.
Anita thanked him with one CRATE
full glance for thinking of an excuse,
however insufficient.
Jimmy Fitz showed them into the
ante-room, and went out again, Ieav-
ing the door ajar. Anita sat breath
less beside Joe, her eyes fixed on the
crack in the door, her whole soul
pouring itself out in an agony of ap-
prehension. There was the jailer, and
Jimmy Fitz and Baker sitting there
in the jailer's private office; Anita
scarcely saw them; they were nothing
to her.
Joe laid his hand upon. her arm,
fearing that she might cry out. She
turned such a quiet face toward him
that he took his hand away, and felt
ashamed.
Steps came along the corridor
two men. Anita grasped the arms of
her chair and listened. What little
color there had been in her lips faded
out completely. She knew the step,
she could not be mistaken; one of
those men was Noel Duke. She turned
and clutched Joe's hand, but she did
not even moan
Duke came into the jai1er's Office.
and she heard Jimmy Fitz asking him
questions-heard every syllable.
well, sir, will you tell us now who
you are. and why you've been hang
ing around the Hotel Louis lie Grande
since midnight on Thursday"
The prisoner did not open his lips.
why did you sit in Pedro's Place
all day Friday and watch the door
to that hotel? Why did you sneak in
there twice while the police were
searching it? Why did you try to
kill Mr.. Vance in that cafe yesterday"
Anita heard them ask hundred in
solent questions. heard them threaten
and promise and cajole. But she lis
tened vainly for a denial which never
came from the prisoner.
Why did he not say something?
Why did he not tell them that they
were liars? How could he be silent
glanced appealingly to joe Joe
turned his face away. and numb
ness as of death stilled the throbbing
of her heart.
Take him back" the jailer or
dered. and Anita caught a glimpse of
Dukes tight-shut lips, as he passed
out to his cell again.
His heavy steps went tramp
tramp-tramp down the long corridor:
uttermost boundaries of the earth.
She longed to cry out after him,
to call him back, to tell him that
there had been mistake-that-
Then she heard the shutting of a
heavy door, miles and miles away.
When Jimmy Fitz and Baker first
appeared in the ante-room, Anita did
not see them; she was conscious of
aothing
well. miss. do ysu know imp
Joe rose Quickl- and tried to save
her the necessity for an answer, but
she did not wait
Il have never seen the man." she
replied steadily; now. take me
home"
Baker followed them to the edge of
the banquette where their cab was
waiting.
That's a sharp un." he remarked.
iersin- his thumb in the direction of
RE ri ..'e's a new and. but