The sun., 1908-03-22

SAShS oad. Ho vas having hIs day; fairly
cart metili praying Il wud be short.
TUX In the room with a rapid glance
Lsmuol Reese NtS nowhere 10 be seen.
OF course, l might hSv known, with all his
arrogant faults, he was model, tFoioas
chairman Of the house COMMITTEES. In
trios had lodged through the plaSza and
up the main hall, into tho otiloe.
'comel' cried. dragging him from be-
hind the desk, III you wud save your wife
from wolves and bell oats!'
didn't have 70 drag. At fuSt eompre-
hsnshun, he shot BY me, the blood In his
head, staggering from the shook, yit st a
rate hs hAd nlvsr hit aimee sprintlng mebbe
Ia . oolhdge race. Even a. inferred the
ballroom, foroin' my way with nivor o
l6Ave, he was down beside her, he was rsis-
Ing her tindsry In HE arms.
hhS fell back limp like broken lily, her
face drawn and white, her eyes oltsei
ss in deaf Thin with a Sigh, her lips
auiv6red Gnd spoke and the inergy Of zach
wan listening fairly pulled at your heart
sOR, what q wretch | am she MUIR
INJURED, 70 forgit for wan moment my poor
son In prison,
ness and comprehension, and she hid her
face on her husbands breast,
There you are, gossips end slander,.
monRers wretchns all, said old Lsmuel
Keesee, standing bold and erict Ike . Gin
eral-I swear wanted 30 s'loot MN. now
YOU know all there IA 10 know
Ny dear wife was marret before, Whin
q mere child. By this marriage she had
son, a youth yet weak, easily led; see
nanny wuss than he before me.
God knows ] tried 10 save him; wanst,
twice, helped him out where he med free
with my own matters. My own son, too,
Lionel, whom you dared blaokbSll-thanks
heartily, by the way, for the oomplimint-
always stood like Trojan by his step
brother.
That's why my dear wife has had q
strong love Tor Lionel now you know
ell there is 10 know about that, you male
and female buSybodies But OF coorse
the poor lad Wint wrong too ofting, wanst
too much for nv help.
sHe IA In pTison, a. his mother says
an, the tindsr mother heart, 80 distrauRht,
so easily moyed-he is In prison, where
swear 10 God he is better Oh than II he were
! here
IL was a strained situation, az the man
sAid Whin he sat down beshune two chairs.
The sudden application Of trut' 10 polite
saesisty has all the effects OF ICY shower
bat. II was funny 10 see wan and all
shlver and shake and grow goggly eyed
under the treatment.
Thin II was that Jargels Wus angle, N
you kin imagine such, inspired him TO ad-
vance, as II 10 dispute old Keesee's wuds;
| as have said, he had been drinking heavily.
| The old man swung about and held him
/ with his RlitterinR eyes.
You vile fraud and impostor,' he thun-
dered, know that to-day have learned
what long suBpected; know that the unly
| reason why l don't tunn you over 10 the
authorities is out OF a foolish sympathy
| for that poor dupe Of follower and accom-
| plica OF yours bowed me tanks. Git
out into the darkness where you b1ong;
but before you go take the mark Of my
| contempt with you And he brought his
palm down heavily on Jarge's sneerins
J face,
Here thin was a mussiful diversion for the
| men. They med a rush for us and we sour
ried away into the darkness where we
| blonged. But even as ran looked back.
Already polite sassiety. as represented
| by all present, was surrounding the Keeeees
with eXplanashuns and assurances happy
| In having found a scapegoat 10 drive back
again into the neither world.