Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
LOVE POINTS THE
WAY TO JUSTICE
By Julius Chambers
Drawing by w. M. Berger


= America. She had not done this without much
thought because the situation was SO peculiar as to
lack precedent 1t like this
There was man. He young, popular rich
In a few years he had risen to a highly envlable
place at the New York bar, owing not little to the
inheritance of famous in the legal profession
and to the bequeSt of a fortune from his forebears
Independent of the anxieties that usually surround
a beginner in any profession Richard Graham had
acquired almost national reputation by under
taking the defense of many frendess men and wO
men accused of crime He defiant antagonist
of the theory of total depravity, and believed that
germ of good existed in every human heart. His
purpose to discover 1t. To him the study
an enthusiasm, entered upon with the same glorihed
impulse that inspires the scientist to seek a new
element in nature or the astronomer to grope amid
myriad stars for suspected asteroid planet. His
success had caused him to be offered and to accept
at the age of twenty the post of First Assistant
District Attorney of New York.
As happened, with apparent RIGHTEOUSNESS his
first official case was the prosecution OF young and
successful physician accused of having caused the
death of his wife by the administration of morphine
A twentygran capsule OF the dangerous drug had
been placed in box of quinine pills with murderous
intent according to the theory of the police, and
with fatal effect perplexing obstacle to the uni
versa acceptance of this theory which the prosecu
ton had adopted was absence of motive for the act
The wife rich in her own ght, much the social
superior of her husband, and had been of
extending his acquaintance among people who paid
literally for medical service She the real money
geter of the family. The only motive for radiance
of the physcian's wife another woman. but the
keenest search did not disclose ENHANCEMENT of
that nature. Graham was in grave perplexity. His
oath bound him to ignore sympathy and to seek only
iustce-that tall, cadaverous maiden of unattrac-
tive visage bearing the antithetical emblems of
sword and steelyard
During visit to Katherine the previous night
= the worriment under which he working had
found voice He had confessed to doubt of the
prisoners guilt. The young woman had listened
with intensity of interest that grew upon her
after Graham's departure and during the next fore
noon she decided to assure herself regarding the cor
rectness of suspicious held by the conscientious law
yer. No engagement existed between them; but
she thought Graham the ideal of all men yet en-
countered
The only child of William Bryce director of a
score of the largest financial interests in the Repub-
lie Katherine did not lack for suors Although she
was barely twenty she had refused half a dozen
foreign noblemen with assorted titles and equal
number of dawdlng of the idle rich class. From
her sturdy father she had inherited a respect for
work. In Grahams personality she believed she
saw the highest type of mental activity
bilious, alert and brainy man who would distin-
gush himself his late father had done. She hardly
confessed to her heart that she in love with
him; but her respect and admiration for the
were profound Much better such respect exist be-
fore the awakening of love, than that the mpetu-
osity of passion it to be uncultivated until
after marriage when it may be unattainable.
Impressed by the gravity of the situation in which
Graham found himself Katherine gave long nights
for John Gordon of the law firm of Gordon Todd &
Markham. Although Gordon of grave
dignity used to making appointments with the most
distinguished members of the community and sum-
moning them his Office he recognized the impor-
tance of appeal from the daughter of William
Bryce. The request unusual that he returned
an answer by katherne's messenger appointing
three o'clock that very afternoon at her home.
HE drove up at the hour and was received by
II Katherine in the library. He frankly admitted
profound curiosity, and was much relieved to be
sured that the message to him had been despatched
after consultation with her mother. Katherine did
not keep the famous lawyer in suspense.
There prisoner in he WIN |