Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-20

NHllN IVr nlulSeII-lnat ms parents
would not make him their concern
JUVENILE CHARACTER.
He was a character. though, that
Kid! Didn't II do YOU good to hear the
judge ask him for his part in tho mis-
chief, and have him answer with n
detailed description Of how the other
boy did it all? Couldn't make Eugene
any way come to his own participance.
Didn't you do anything at all to tho
box, Eugene" asked the Judge desper-
ately
Yes" answered Eugene frankly, this
time, II looked in"
The big brother tried him then: and
Eugene melted under the stress of a
comrades plea TO play fair. He was
good comlade, too after all, was Eugene,
and while he agreed that he may be de-
served the reform school he would be
glad enough to keep out of it-and
would play fair for it with the court,
If it would give him another chance.
BURLEsQUE OF A CRIMINAL.
There was one other culprit on hand
in the casc-but after q surprised
glance the Judge refused to take him
seriously. He was so little. you see. He
said nine years old when the Judge ask
ed him, but he didn't look seven, and
chies could never have seen much mis-
chief of his own doing and kept that
look.
HANDS IN DEEP MOURNING.
No platform nor witness chair for
this burlesquc Of criminal.
Tho judge puts big. fathorly arm
around him and marches him over to
the reporter lady who is by the window.
Nov, Archie, well sit down hero,
ana you tell this lady all about those
broken boxes" The Judge takes him
ON his knee; the reporter lady takes
his hand-a hand in deep mourning
with heavily fringed finger nails Tho
nice matron-l lady and the big brother
drew their chairs in circle and the
examination begins.
Now Archie. who opened those
boxes in the barn."
"Freddy did"
who helped him?"
~ don't know wasn't in there,
then"
The judge looked disappointed
III you weren't there, Archie. how
do you know that Freddy opened the
box?"
why. he told me, of course
"of course; l see the judge sighed
with relief. do you know where Fred =
with?"
OUT OF THE ROBBERS CAVE.
Yes: out of the Robbers Cave"
The jude Rugged him a little closer:
the reporter lady squeezed the brun-
cite finger nails. the lce matron
lady and the big brother Struggled
nearer tC the boy.
"Oh, ho'' said the Judge, there is
robbers cave-is there ?"
Archie looked at him with illcon-
cealed pity. Hadn't he ever had one >
Hadn't they all, ideed! Why, GER
tainly. Not the nice matron nor the
reporter ladies, perhaps, though one
of them had known two boys in her
seven to 10 days who had bully one.
Think of her ever forgetting its clan
destine discovery that day in the orr
chard where she had been sent TO dig
gruos for the boy that liked fish. The
thrill of finding that board under the
heap of loose dirt--and after that the
deep hole in the ground stored with
treasures breathing of inysterV-the
rusty ristol--a little broken rs tn
barrel, perhaps, and with no trigger
to spegk of-but sure pistol: and
then the sharpest butcher knife, 90
long missed from the pantry shelf;
and the looks. There never had been
q thrill as RED Scud. the Scalper."
aid an old regret yet wriggled fee lc
teptacles at memory in her of those
disturbing footsteps which had made
it's reburying imperative while yet the
fate OF Ronald and Irene quivered be-
heath Soud's appraised tommyhawki
and.
YOU newspaper people" said the
Judge with a quick, queer droop OF one
oye will doubtless have a sensational
story for your columns If we succeed
In getting on the trail of mat cave
II hope we get the SCOOP respond
ed the reporter, eagerly.
"Now. Archie. ask this lady what
she thinks of your case
che Indy, turned into temporary
court responded to Archie's eyes
question with another squeeze of the
dark-hazed hand
"Archie's face seems to tell me it's
not the kind that Will ever be seen in
side this room again" she sentenced.
1T seems to say that to me, too"
concurred the abdicated court.
Aud Archie went home.