Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-05-01
The migrate
BY Edgar Waite
Copyright. BY Daily story Pub. Coz

so when they continued asking
him. lie lifted up himself and said
unto them. he that is without sin
among you. let him first cast q stone
! at her"
In tho days OF his youth no was
/ going the gait. and she was proud to
travel with him. and ask no questions.
The glorious to-day was theirs and It
were crime to ut the veil OF to.
morrow. So hand In hand, with airy
feet they trod the primrose path and
all the world was light. and flowers,
I and one glad. sweet song.
One day the eastern brokers called
for margins. To stop where he was
meant heavy loss. To put up might
mean salvation. So he put up. Crash
went the market and his hopes. That
night he spent long while on tho
books. Twice ten is twenty and Ave
to carry" Twenty-Five thousand, Sal.
airy one hundred dollars a month Cash
on hand, zero. Down came the air
castle. Eddie Darrell, assistant cash.
Ter OF the National Bank of Stanfield
lit out for Mexico.
| N the morning details were In the
hands OF great detective agency and
{ by night the bloodhounds were on the
trail. The chase did not last long. It
/ was showing in the lcaden dawn OF a
winter morning when three mon
alighted from the limited and stopped
upon the platform ut Stanneld All
wore great coats. closely buttoned up
f,f ~ trfc vta ,fs.t
fully at the rcceding rcd lights on the
rear sleeper OF the train and bitterly
remarked
Whit fool young man can make
OF himself II he wants to-"
To this selfevident proposition
there was no response All entered
hack and the sterner.faced man OF the
three indicated the destination to tho
driver by word OF four letters. After
n drive of seven or eight blocks the
vehicle stopped In front of com.
posite building of brick and stone The
stern.!ooking man motioned the
younger one to get out and the two
quickly followed. A few resoundlng
knocks on the door brought ont a man
whose dangling suspcnders. bare feet
and mussed hair indicated hurried
evacuation OF his bed After Il rapid
scrutiny OF his caller with his alert
eye he calculated;
Eddie Darrell, BY the great Lord
I Harry! Where'd you catch him."
His curiosity was satisfied and. after
few laconic directions by the leader.
the two returned to the carriage. leav.
Ing the younger man in charge OF the
keeper.
The man of the stern countenanc.
was United States detective. Ills
companion was the cashier Of the Ma
tional bank. The young man they left
at the jail was the defaultlng assist.
ant
At the ensuing term OF the United
States court the young man pleaded
guilty TO embezzling the banks money.
which he said he had hoped to return
u his wheat deals hadn't gone wrong.
There didn't appear TO be any very
mitigating circumstances. save that
the prisoner was closely related to one
OF the best families of the town and
had always borne an excellent fenu.
tation. And be was young. His law.
yers referred to this in their plea for
mercy and stated that for seven years
past the prisoner had been a trusted
employe of the bank and the faithful
treasurer OF leading church OF which
he was 4 member. The court spoke OF
the parable of the talents and made II
five years at hard labor.
The nSeigtnus rachfar Jo,naI ~.
stripes and began his long term of
seryitude. He was a model prisoner,
the warden said.
soon after the convict reached the
pcnitentiary a young woman sought
employment at a hotel in the prison
town. She was wel.formed and fatty
good-looking, but extremely reticent.
She belonged to q class Hugo speaks
or as les misorables.' Il was noticed
that she was frequently in the cook
room after hours preparing dainties OF
some sort, which she took 10 her room.
On many occasions she was observed
late at night by the aid Of candle.
sewing OH material for mans gar.
ments IL soon leaked out that she
had lover in the penitentiary. who
was the recipient of these favors ere.
ated during the hours she should have
been asleep. A metropolitan newsps.
per that makes a specially OF such
cases sent an investigator TO the peni-
Tertiary and he took his paint brush
along. An extract from his report ran
like this;
with love more lasting than that
OF Mercedes for Edmond Dantes, and
devotion as unselhsh as Juilecs TO
Romeo. Nell Thorne walls outside tho
grim walls OF tho state penltentiary
for the release OF her convict lover.
When he walks through the great iron