The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-06-28


knew they were fOrg cries. 7 called TO
get them. If only / could put my
! hands on them. hide them. hold them
/ by any means for il st three days, I
and save myself"
so that was the inside story. was
it, queried the doctor. with keen in
terest.
Part of it, Listen" Lawlor nerved
! himself TO the ordeal Of confession.
; His face was ashen, and tremors shook
his body. i called 70 get them that
/ fatal evening. Old Montague was not
at home. Aileen Van Cleave was. She
! received me 1 gave a good excuse
for wanting the bonds. which I knew
I the old man had right there in his
desk il the little den next to the
She declined 10 let me nave them"
And YOU persisted2'
Politely, yes I explained with
detail nay fictitious reason. She still
refused Time was passing. The Old
man tblast his misery sOulD might
( be back at any moment. ] threw all
pretense away and started into the
| den. She blocked my way I tried 70
put her aside She struggled Then
she screamed. I chOked that scream
not hard. mind YOU. without the re-
hottest thought Of injuring her She
/ fought like a wildcat. I must have
lost my wits; then, what with my
haste and my fear Of discovery. 1 flung
her from me.
Her head struck the dOor-jam as she
/ Ieil- Incredibly hin her frontal bone
( must have been, to crush as IL did, I
did not know, then, that I had killed
/ her, but ran into the den. jerked the
desk drawers open. one By one, IN ter
ribie haste, found the bonds. and
crammed them into my pocket.
THAT was the moment when Syme
! appeared. He had heard the scream.
! He gave one look at the girl, then
I sprang at me. beat him OF, leaped
I through the window, ran across the
side yard, vaulted the hedge and disap-
peared That was the end Of me so
FAR as the world knows. But Syme-
was found there with the girl. he was
! accused The man pad talked 10 the
coachman and the fOOtL-an regarding
his infatuatiOu for his mistress. Moth
ing could be proved. His denunClStiCn
Of me, coupled with my disappearance,
brought me the nrst-degree Indictment.
Z under which T. still am-put me within
the shadow OF the chair. Everything
rests with Syme today. He got three
and half half years as 1 have said.
| out where I am hiding. The rest is
/ even now in sight-the rest Of this
/ strange, troubled history"
EllghtE' exclaimed Hargreave.
"Flght2 NO Svme viii be at liberty
| June !. maybe sooner. II his conduct
I has been good. He EilI come here. viii
demand hush money. viii make life in
/ toleTanle If I give in 10 him. viii Try TO
u 4
I his Internal cunning he writes that he
| has made arrangements so that If he
disappears or IS made way with.
sealed letter containing the information
at his disposal viii be. after four weeks.
I forwarded 20 District Attorney Evans.
So you see
Yes. ANY way YOU look at the prob
Z lem, 70 Is impossible Of solution. unless
Z you disappear again. Try the little Re
/ public of San Marino Small, bit safe.
I No eNtradiuon treaty with the United
States as vet"
I NO. not tbat"' LawIor. exhausted.
! lay back again on the divan. Not
/ that I'm tired OF being hunted from
pillar 10 post. all over this accused
globe. I'm through with skulklug and
lodging and hiding Up In holes and cor
+ ners Of the world. like a hare coursed
by hounds. No more Of that for me,
Here in America am, here I shall
stay; Yet ], as i, must disappear and
another man be born in my stead-Other
in frame. IN measurements, In face, IN
. type-SO different that ! can walk the
streets. with other men. mingle with my
kind, live again without this horrible
and deadly fear logging my steps. this
fear that makes each waking hour
hell and even rObS nay very sleep, when
/ can sleep at all, OF all its reSttUlueSS-'
He broke of. paati-ig with exhaustion
His eyes burned Is with fever. his
cheeks, pale a few moments before,
were flushed.
Freedom. he cried. II must have
I freedom. at whatever price, Flight
No, a thousand times no. That Is no
Z life. but death, died thousand times IN
anticipation. 10 skulk through the
world. night and day peering behind for
I the pursuer: day and night thinking 10
/ feel the hand OF the law on ones shout
| der 1 must die-yet l must live You,
( greater wOrk-this miracle for me-
The great surgeon smiled.
'Yes," he made answer. Il am all
that stands between you now ana
death, or the flight, which IS worse
than death 10 YOU Just my prOIes-
sionaI sense OF honor, that Is all As
/ man, I would never serve you l
would help 10 hand you over 10 the
/ law. AS a surgeon, your medical ad-
WISER I compound your felony, aid.
comfort and abet you, and hold my
peace, not because L want 70, bUS be
cause I must Yes, I VIII do this
thing for YOU
and your fee, doctor, shall be any
thing you ask, up 10 the point Of beg
/ Hargreave raised his hand. MY
/ fee" said he, will be something
which you do not think OF now, some
thing which you viii be most unWill-
; ing 10 give me something which you
will want very much TO keep for
yourself. yet, which snail most GER
I tatnly exact Of YOU
Name 1t. and it is yours cried the
/ sick man. with fevecish insistence-
The surgeon only shook his head
d N Z.
I now" no continued. his tone becoming
/ businesslike and brisk, "now, this very
night, my work with you begins Ny
word, from this moment forward.
must be supreme with you IN all mat
/ tors Of your bodily health Do you
! agree2,
( "I do"
| '"Ve~y we'll. then. I assume charge
I OF your diet, your exercise. your hab-
! its, your life. The work ahead OF you
| from now till the middle or the end
OF May will tax you, physically, men
1 tally, morally, TO the utmost II you
survive AT all, il will be only because
| Of my care and your obedience Two
I weeks 1 am going to spend. in prepar-
! ing you. The morphine must stop, the
wine must stop, the cigars must stop,
/ absolutely. You are, l judge, fifty
I FIVE years of aSe?'
'Forty-seven. I have aged ten years
/ in the last three"
VERY likely. Well. I will prepare a
dietary for YOU. map ont exercises, and.
( in general. put your body and YOUR
/ nerves back again so far as possible in
! a single fortnight. into some sort of
shane for the transnutaJion wherein
one personally will die. another come TO
/ life-anUther which viii be You. and vet
not vou-whiCh will be free to live out
some small partial atorement for the
l great crime done BY the first"
! A personality which nobody in the
world can reCOgniZe2' cried LaWlor
! % gerIY-
Nobody. unless Samson may per
/ chance. with his eve of love. penetrate