The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-26
CHAPTER X.
ALONE

Marshall
CHAPTER X.
ALONE
2 M HOLDEN dropped down on his
cot aud listened mechanically to
Bess' footsteps as she passed
through the jail and down the
long corridor.
Somehow, before. he had not real
lied fully how alone he was. But
now that she was gone there was a
vague emptiness that he puzzled about
for some time. trying TO define just
what the feeling was.
How he wished he could have told
her And to think that her faith was
SO great as to make her believe him
in spite Of his necessary silence.
For the first time since his impris-
0ument Jim Holden broke down. His
shoulders heaved with suppressed emo
ton.
AT length he could not stand it, and
throwing himself out fat on the hard
prison cot, he shook with n0lseless
s0bs
Finally, jim got the upper hand Of
himself He realized that he must not
give way so early in the game. He
had a big fight % make and in order
TO have any chance at all ne must
be perfect master of himself
Calling to the guard he requested
morning paper. Tt was brought 20 him.
and he quickly found the burglary ac-
count.
There it was In glaring headlines
$4,000 LOSS
MARSHALL BANK ROBBED,
Scanning over the report, he learned
the details. and a slow realization OF
what this news was to mean 10 him
grew upon Jim.
lie allowed the paper to slip through
his nerveless fingers. He sat listlessly.
Now the whole story was before Illi.
1T was a little vague as yet, but grad
uaTIv the true situation shaped itself
i'm his mind,
Worst of all was the fact that he was
charged with stealing from the banL
that belonged 10 Bess' father. How
would any one believe that he had not
manned the burglary with the uam2.
and killed him to get all OF the none
He Thought again of the meeting wiJn
Cer~rr Brown. and the eageruess with
which that Young man had hurried on.
supposedly i'm pursuit OF his horse jim
could not help but feel that George was
guilty
why had he appeared so frightened2
The more me thought Of IT, the more
certain was Holden that he knew the
man VINO had plotted the crime Win
Harvey SNOW.
But what good did the knowledge do
Hlm9 He could not reveal itt That
would iumre Eess and her family; be
sides. II might do no good. for all -
could do was 10 assert what he had
seen
Suddenly me renembereds too That
the tramp was a. great friend OF George
fin their school days II seemed possible
20 him that tho intimacy might have
been kept up afterWard.
Then le turned his thoughts to the
tramp and his oath to him that he
would take the package TO Mrs SNOW
and never say word about having seen
Harvey or what had happened since he
left Marshall
Even iu lIs present predIcameut Jim
felt great sympathy for mis- travelling
companion III was a big, natural sym
rathy that He could not account for
and It's argument was strong in favor
OF the hayward man into whose com
pang la had fallen.
Had DO not been for the sick mothes
tHe one woman, the one virtue I'm uIa
that che tramp had never forgotten,
Holden would have felt diGereuty- This
was the saving clause iu the man, and
TO Jim lt was worth an the rest
Vow Dee understood why hc wauderer
had muttered those last words when he
WAS dying