The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-03
CHAPTER X.
=AUTHOR OF
NEW HOPE.

NEW E4OEE.
LICE cried . Phil hG ston6yd f i5
front of his cell.
yes, il is l. she answered
But what are you doing here?
I came to see if 1 could help. I've
been so worried so sorry. ever since
But, Alice, there is rOthing for you
to feel sorry about I'm sure that
She cut in quickly.
"Phir'-her voice was low feel az
though I had brought this whole thinS
on
Don't say that" he cried.
She started to speak again. Her I'D
trembled: she stood wavering
81 feel as though I must do some
thing" she went on at last Cant l
help Ia some WaYY' -
I'm afraid not" answered Phil but
it's awfuIly good of you to
Il must do something" she said
A l''i sudden idea came TO Phil. If he
could get Eben's story there would De
a chance. Still, he couldn't ask her to
do that for him He must not accept
Please. anything! II you don't tell
me what to do" she urged, well, prob
ably I'll go and do something foolish
Of MY own accord and spoil your
chances"
There Is one thing that you might
What Is it2' Her question was eX-
cited and she pressed closer to the bars.
Phil told her briefly about old Eben
and repeated his Relief that the solu-
ton to the mystery was locked up in
the old mans breast.
"In find out I'll find OUT" cried the
Then a Shade of doubt spread over
her face.
But she asked slowly. 'I can't
go To your hols sc to make the investi-
No ne replied. surely not: made
arrangements before-before / was
I'll
the hospital for treatment under DR..
Lyons. He is doubtless there now. Bob
IS probably keeping close watch to see
that no one gets TO see old Eben, but
DR.. Lyons is my true friend and I'm
sure he viii help me-
Phil borrowed q pencil from the
guard, who was courteous in the pres
ence of the young lady, and scrawled
a hurried note TO DIT. Lyons. Folding
il, he handed It TO Alice.
'TH go at once, - she said.
Then, just before starting. she turn
81 back and said in a low voice:
I simply can't stay at home while
you're here. Besides-''
"Besides-what? he querfed anx-
iously.
The family won't give me any
I'm what way do you mean?"
''They want me TO marry Bob"
But after this?" queried Phil.
ooh, this will keep them quiet for
some time. But it win break out
again"
with that she went away.
Phil sat stunned II was the first
time he had heard of the wish of her
family. To think that she would go
against them and come down and try to
help him out?
A sudden horrid thought came to him
What If he were sent TO prisOn2 Would
Bob manage TO win Alice. with the aid
OF her family?
The thought of this possible outcome
gave him new strength. He would fight
charge Mr.. Rogers. Alice would get
old Eben's story and he would be freed
by that.
Nursing this idea. he planned and
planned, building beautiful air castles
ind allowing his high hopes to run
way with him.
While in the midst 81 one Of his most
elaborate palaces in the clouds. there
came a grating of the door and Phil
jumped up to see the ugly guard shove
IN a tray Of coarse food.
Suddenly the beautiful castles tumbled.
He was himself again. A prisoners
prisoner without hope.
With great effort he forced the food
down his dry throat In spite Of its
poOrness he must eat for he had touch
ed nothing since breakfast.
He guped down his supper as quickly
not bear 10 think of the food itself, but
he must eat.
That night. the first he had ever spent
in jail, was most miserable. He tossed
on the hard prison bunk. and before
him, In panorama, passed the events Of
a single day, the strangest day he had
ever experienced.
What a swift-moving picture ii was:
First, the inquest Then the arrest A
short time later his first fight with