The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-05-04
CHAPTER VI.

LIZ McpkS uTiEHeu SLOWLY on
for Jimmy Valentine after the
momentous day when Rose
= Lane and Lieutenant Governor
Fay visited the prison-weeks of won.
der, weeks of hope. weeks Of despair.
lie concluded that the girl had for.
gotten him; that her interest in him
mad been but the evanescent NANTES.
;ntion of feeting impulse. Probably
"Tzzy' snedden was right after all.
Ivy, doing a bit of four for bur
elary, seemed 10 know n great deal
about women. and he had assured
Valentine that "a girl don't know
what 1t means TO keep her word. not
that she don't mean 10. hut she just
materially talks so much that she
can't remember half what size says"
The lieutenant governor. too. had
apparently forgotten about the OK.
istence Of No. 1889. and Valentine he.
gan deeply TO wish that his hopes had
never been aroused. Ear better never
TO have risen to the heights of ex-
pcctancy at all than on attaining them
to be thus rudely cast from them.
Rut Valentine had not realized how
slowly move the executive wheels OF
the government of a great and busy
state. A governor is held to strict
accountability for his official actions,
and in the important matter of the
pardon of man convicted to state
prison for felony haste is entirely
out of the question. And it was one
day when Jimmy Valentine had lost
every vestige of confidence in Rose
Lane and her uncle and in the lawyer
whom he had retained that hurried
footsteps resounded down the cell cor
rldor. \ paper, glorious paper bear
Ing the seal of the Empire State, was
flashed before his eyes.
You are pardoncd" came the wei
come announcement. 1.-THE governor
has released You"
In one OF the parlors Of the Ten
Eyck hotel in Albany, within two
short blocks of the capitol, Mrs Web
stcr and Mrs. Moore sat patiently
waiting
You don't suppose Mr.. Valentine
would feel uncomfortable in coming
to meet our party in nice respecta-
bic place like this, do you?" asked
prim little Mrs. Moore of her cowork-
err in the Gate of Hope society.
NO" was the positive response
"That young man wouldn't feel IN
comfortable or embarrassed any
where in the world. This is the first
victory for the Gate of Hope, Mrs
Moore. and trnst your report Will be
such as to encourage others to join
u.s."
ut will be exact. Mrs. Webster, Of
that YOU may rest assured. BY the
way, do YOU not think we should have
had a few reporters here 10 give pub
lie notice of our first trlumph?"
Your report. my dear-we will send
mat to all papers" and Mrs. Webster
smiled proudly as she spoke.
\ messenger boy came in with a
note from Valentine. who had come 10
Albany to thank the governor for his
release and TO meet the people who
had worked to secure him his pardon.
The note, written from the governors
executive chamber, notified the ladies
that he would be with them in fifteen
minutes.
Rose Lane and her father, William
Lane. an Illinois banker, came into the
parlor and greeted the two ladies'. who
Informed the newcomers that Mr.
Valentine would shortly arrive. De-
Ginning the invitation of Mrs. Moore
and Mrs. Webster TO join in light re-
freshments in the tea room on the meg.
famine floor, Rose and her father re-
NAMED in the parlor, while the two
ladies' departed.
Rose had not seen her father for
months. and on his arrival in the east
She persuaded him to accompany her
to Albany TO assure the governor that
u lie pardoned Valentine lie would
guarantee him good business posi-
ton. 1t is more than probable that
this attitude on the part OF a man of
slr. Lanes standing in the financial
world had something to do with the
hnal determination OF the executive to
sign the release papers. 1t tended to
confirm in the governor his belief in
the prisoners innocence. Mr.. Lane
and his daughter had waited overnight
IN Albany after the granting of the