The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-07
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Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.


age money, and in return gets
worthless check, which leaves hin
penniless. He confesses his error q
Claire Harding, his boyhood sweet
heart.
Thames Edward William Dain
tree is i'll love with Claire.
III-Tom finds out that Captain
Blaydes is paying attention TO Claire
and is TO be at her house that night
He vows to have satisfaction from
Blaydes, but promises Claire that h'
will not seek Blaydes for two weeks
Tom meets Blaydes a few moment:
late and demands his G35.
IV-BlaydeS draws a sword cane OF
Tom, who smashes it with a heavy
stick which he carries. Blaydes has
not the money, but gives Tom hi:
gold watch, and Tom signs an agree
ment 10 pawn the watch and give Tho
ticket TO BIaydes. Tom leaves ano
is accosted by deformed man, who
asks the time. The next morning
Blaydes is found brutally murdered
Leside the stile where he had been
talking to Tom.
N-Blaydes has been robbed of ey
erything, among which the newspapers
mention the gold watch which was
really given to Tom. Tom had stopped
for the night at the house of the man
who was driving the coach at the time
Tom met BIaydes. He is accused by
the coachman of being the murderer.
lie escapes and DISCUSSES himself, but
is afraid to pawn the watch.
VI-Tom spends the night in a
boathouse and next day is invited in
10 the house of small fat gentleman,
the owner, who does his best to make
Linn feel at home. He is betrayed by
this man into the hands of the police
for the murder of Blaydes.
VII-Claire believes him guilty. Mr..
Harding hires lawyer to see Tom.
The lawyer thinks Tom is guilty and
insults him in his cell. Tom throws
ban ont.
NfTI-Claire gets Daintree to retain
Eassett one of the best criminal law
yers In England, to plead Toms cause.
IX-Tom is held for the next Grim
inal sessions court.
X.-Claire's maid has overheard the
conversation between Claire and Tom
on the night of the murder, when Tom
swore he would get even with Blaydes
if he bad to kill him to do it. The
of her Jewels as hush money.
XI-Tom is convicted of murder in
the first degree.
XII-Tom is placed in the con-
demned cell.
XIII-Tom's sentence is committed
to transportation for life.
XIV-Claire's engagement to Dain-
tree is announced The latter's faith
er warns Claire's father against Dain
tree. XV.-Tom, as convict in Aus
tralia, is bound out to the Sulliyans,
peculiar and harsh family, who live
far in the interior at a place dubbed
Castle Sullivan.
Its all up. JONES' said that phiioso-
pier, with the blunt intimacy which
had made Tom like him from the first.
My good wife has discovered who you
are. and she refuses to leave her bed
while you remain in the house. She
has read of you in the English papers.
confound them, and she simply won't
have you on the premisesi 1t seems un-
reasonable when you consider that our
cook was bloodthirsty baby farmer.
our eoachman a professional burglar
bitual criminals every one-which /
don't think you are. Still there's an
other side to it, There's the boy to be |
considered. and though 1 think you're
the very man for him. mothers feel |
ings must be studied in such matters. |
You see I like you well enough to be |
perfectly frank about the matter, but |
the fact is the chaise is waiting for us |
outside
SO ended that chapter. and Tom was
back at barracks in time to hear the |
cIank of chain gangs stunning family |
out to work and the swish and whistle
of the morning lash. Those two instru
ments supplied the street music of the
convict city. There were few days
and few hours when you might not
hear their melancholy duet To Tom
the sound of it was still physical tor
ture, the more unbearable after this
cruel taste of better things. Nearly
all his shipmates had been assigned
and taken away in his absence. Only
one other special was left London
clerk transported for fraud. Toms
late master, friend OF the superin-
tendent. was allowed TO carry him of
1n Toms stead. and long afterward
the latter heard the curious sequel of
his own misfortune. So thoroughly
did his successor teach what he knew
that both tutor and pupil were pres
emily transported TO Van Dieman's
Land for life.
The incident was sufficiently dis
heartening at the time. and yet IL had
its hopeful side. 1t revealed the posi-
bllities OF the assignment system, or.
rather. its better possibilities. from the
convict's point Of view. As a punish
ment it must needs prove farce in a
community which preferred 10 estimate
eonyicts 10y their capacity as colonists
rather than by their crimes as felons.
Such was Toms comforting reflection.
for not vet did he realize how entirely
the condition of the convict was de-
pendent upon the character OF the
master; but. having had one good mas
ter, though for so brief q period, he
looked cheerfully for another.
The other, however. was slow 10