El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-30

"HE weeks dragged slowly on
for Jimmy Valentine after the
momentous day when Rose
Il Lane and Lieutenant Governor
Fay visited the prison-weeks Of won
der, weeks Of hope, weeks of despair.
He concluded that the girl had for
gotten him; that her interest in him
nad been but the evanescent NANTES
tation Of a feeting impulse. Probably
SIzzy" Snedden was right after all
LEY, doing a bit OF four for bur
glary, seemed to know q great deal
about women, and he had assured
Valentine that "a girl don't know
what it means to keep her word. not
that she don't mean TO, but she just
materially talks so much that she
can't remember half what she says"
The lieutenant governor, too, had
apparently forgotten about the ex-
istence of No. 1899, and Valentine be-
gan deeply to wish that his hopes had
never been aroused. Far better never
TO have risen to the heights of ex-
pectancy at all than on attaining them
to be thus rudely cast from them
But Valentine had not realized how
slowly move the executive wheels Of
the government Of a great and busy
state. A governor is held to a strict
accountability for his official actions,
and in the important matter Of the
pardon Of a man convicted to state
prison for a 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
ridor. A paper, a glorious paper bear
ing the seal Of the Empire State, was
flashed before his eyes.
You are pardonedF' came the vel
come announcement. "The governor
has released you!"
In one Of the parloEs Of the Ten
Eyck hotel, In Albany, within two
short blocks Of the capitol, Mrs. Web
ster snd Mrs. Moore sat patiently
waiting.
You don't suppose Mr. Valentine
would feel uncomfortable In coming
to meet our party In a nice respecta-
bic place like this, do your asked
prtm little Mrs. Moore of her cowork-
er In the Gate Of Hope society.
NO." was the positive response.
'sThat young man wouldn't feel IN
where In the world. This is the first
victory for the Gate of Hope, Mrs.
Moore, and I trust your report will be
such as to encourage others to join
us"
cit win 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 to give pub
lie notice of our first triumph"
your report, my dear-we Will send
that to all papers, and Mrs. Webster
smiled proudly as she spoke
A messenger boy came in with a
note from Valentine, who had come to
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-
clining the invitation Of Mrs. Moore
ard Mrs. Webster to join in light re-
freshments in the tea room on the mez-
canine 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
II be pardoned Valentine he would
guarantee him a good business posi-
ton. Il is more than probable that