The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-06-09

In the days Of his youth he was
gong the gait, and she was proud 10
traVel with him, and ask no questions
Inc glorious to-day was theirs and It
We're a crime to lift the veil Of to.
morrow. So hand in hand, with airy
Ieet they trod the primrose path and
al the world was light, and flowers,
and one glad. sweet song
One day the eastern brokers called
LOT margins. To stop where he was
meant a heavy loss. To put up might
near salvation. So he put up. Crash
went the market and his hopes. That
night he spent a long while on the
DOCKS. Twice ten is twenty and FIVE
10 carry" Twenty-Five thousand Sal
airy n 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.
In the morning details were in the
hands OF a great detective agency and
by night the blOodhounds were on the
tran. The chase did not last long. II
was showing in the leaden dawn Of a
winter morning when three men
allghted from the limited and tepped
upon the platform at Stanfeld. All
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:
aWurN
what a fool a young man can make
Of himself if he wants to-"
To this self-evident proposition
there was no response. All entered a
hack and the sterner-faced man OF the
three indicated the destination to the
driver by a word of four letters. After
a drive of seven or eight blocks the
vehicle stopped in front Of a COM
posite building Of brick and stone. The
s~ternlooking man motioned the
younger one to get out and the two
quickly followed. A few resounding
knocks on the door brought out a man
who's dangling suspenders, bare feet
and mussed hair indicated a hurried
evacuation of his bed. After a rapid
scrutiny of his caller with his alert
eye he calculated:
Eddie Darrell! By the great Lord
Harry! Where'd you catch him?"
His curiosity was satisfied and. after
a 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 co~untenance
was a United States detective. His
companion was the cashier of the Ma
tional bank. The young man they left
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 n
which he said he had hoped to return
II his wheat deals hadn't gone wrong.
There didn't appear to be anv very
mitigating circumstances, a V that
The prisoner was closely related to one
Of the best families of the town and
had always borne an excellent repu-
-ation. And he was young. His law
referred to this in their plea for
mercy and stated that for seven years
the prisoner had been a trusted
employee of the bank and the faithful
..reasurer of a leading church of which
lie was a member. The court spoke of
he parable of the talents and made it
i've years at hard labor.
The assistant cashier donned the
stripes and began his long term of
.ervitude. He was a model prisoner.
he warden said.
Soon after the convict reached the
.lenitentiary a young woman sought
employment at a hotel in the prison
She was well-formed and fairly
.ood-looking. but extremely reticent.
The belonged to a class Hugo speaks
+ as les m~iserables." 1t was noticed
hat she was frequently in the cook
Dom after hours preparing dainties of
ONE sort, which she took TO her room.
IN many occasions she was observed
ate at night, by the aid of a candle.
ewing on material for a mans gar
lents. 1t soon leaked out that she
ad a lover in the ~penitentiary. who
as the recipient of these favors ere
ted during the hours she should have
cen asleep. A metropolitan newspa-
er that makes a speciality of such
asses sent an investigator to the peni-
and he took his paint brush
long. An extract from his report ran
Ike this:
With a love more lasting than that {
Mercedes for Edmond Dantes. and
devotion as unselfsh as Juliet's to J
omeo. Nell Thorne waits outside the q
walls of the state ~penitentiary
n the release of her convict lover '
hen he walks through the great iron
to the freedom Of a scornful q
orld he will find an arm lady TO sus- b
in him and a heart that sympathizes T
it'll him" Z
There were many paragraphs of
sort and pictures galore. 1t was a
lie article and attracted attention. A
und-faced old gentleman of a philan. Il
ropic turn visited the penitentiary b
see if it all were true. He knew h
at reporters were sometimes given fl
-er-imagination. But in this in. s.
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