The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-04-17

unto them. be- that IS without sin
among you. Jet him first cast stone
AZ herr
~ the days q bis youth he Was
going the gait. aad she vas proud 10
travel with him. and ask no questions.
The glorious to-day vas theirs and it
we're a crime 10 iIff The ven 81 to-
morrow. 50 hand ln hand. with airy
feet they trod the primrose path and
All the world was Light, and flowers,
and one glad. sweet song
One day the eastern brokers called
for margins. To stop where be was
meant a heavy loss To put up might
mean salvation 50 he put up. Crash
went the market and his hopes That
night he spent a long while On the
books Twice ten Is twenty and five
TO carry" twenty-five thousand Sal
arr one hundred dollars a month. Cash
on hand, zero Down came the air
castle. Eddie Darrell, assistant cash
fer of the National Bank Of Sfanheld
lit out for Mexico.
In the morning details we're In the
hands of a great detective agency and
BY night the bloOdhOunds we're on the
trail. The chase did not last long. It
was showing I'd the leaden dawn 0l
winter morning when three men
alighted from the limited and stepped
upon the platform AZ stanfeld an
wore great coats. closely buttoned up.
The younger of the trio glanced visit
fully At the receding red lights On the
rear sleeper Of the train and bitterly
remarked
What a fool young man can make
Of himself II be wants to.
To this self-evident proposition
there was no response. Alt entered
hack and the sserner-faeed man Of the
three Indicated the destination 70 the
driver BY a word of four letters After
a drive of seven Or eight blocks the
vehicle stopped Ia front oi com
posste building Of brick and stone. The
Etern-Iooking man m0tiOned the
younger one to get out and the two
quickly followed a few resounding
knocks On the door brought out a man
whose dangling suspendefs, bare feet
and mussed hair indicated hurried
evacuation Of bis bed After a rapid
scrutiny Of bis caller With his alert
ego he calculated.
Eddie Darrell. ny the great Lord
Harry Whers'd you catch him."
His curiosity was satisfied and, after
4 few laconic directions BY the leader
the two returned to the carriage, 1eav-
ing the younger man Ia charge Of the
keeper
The man Of the stern countenance
was a United States detective. His
companion was the cashier Of the Ma.
tionai bank The young man they left
at the jail was the defaulting assist.
ant
At the ensuing term Of the United
States court The young man pleaded
guilty to embezzling the banks money.
which he said be had hoped to return
# his wheat deals hadn't gone wrong
There didn't appear 10 be any very
mitigating circumstances. save that
the prisoner was closely related to one
oi the best families Of the town and
had always borne an excellent repu-
tation. And he was young. His law
yers referred to this In their plea for
mercy and stated that for seven years
past the prisoner had been trusted
employe Of the bank and the faithful
treasurer Of leading church OF which
he was member The court spoke of
the parable Of the talents and made It
five years at hard labor
The assistant cashier donned the
stripes and began his long term Of
seryltpde He was a model prisoner,
the warden said
Soon after the convict reached the
Denltentlary q young woman sought
employment at a hotel in the prison
town. She was well-formed and fairly
good-looking, but extremely reheent.
She belonged to class Hugo speaks
Of as @les miserables." It was noticed
that she was frequently N the cook
room after hours preparing dainties Of
some sort, which she took to her room.
On many occasions she was observed
late at night By the aid Of candle,
sewing on material for a mans gar
ments II soon leaked out that she
had a lover In the penitentlary. who
was the recipient Of these favors ere
ated during the hours she should have
been asleep A metropolitan newspa
per that makes a specially Of such
cases sent an investigator to the penl
tentiary and he took his paint brush
along. An extract from his report rar
like this.
with q love more lasting than tha
of Mercedes for Edmond Dantes. ant
a devotion AZ unselfish as Jullets t,
Romeo, Nell Thorne waits outside tht
grim walls Of the state penltentlarl
for the release Of her convict lover
When he walks through the great iroi
doors to the freedom Of scornfu
world ne viii find an arm ready to sua
tain him and a heart that sympathlze
with him"
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