The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-06-05

= $3.50 49, II nest paper. SO
that you. can secrete It In something
]. he VIII be sure to get. Don't disap-
point me. ! was sorry for you, too.
and glad when they let you out Both
] OF you are old pIaymates Of mine, but
Arthur
i ] had to tell her. I had to dash her
small hopes to the ground
Forgive me, EIla,' / said .'but /
| cannot carry him this message OF. even
| get It to him secretly. 1 am watched
myself. There Is man who sees him
constantly and may be induced to as
! sure Arthur OF your BELIEF and con-
] tinued interest In him. That man IS
/ his lawyer. Mr.. BGo6at. Any one viii
tell You how to reach him"
''No. no." she disclafmed hurriedly.
breathlessly. MY last hope was In
you. You wouldn't think the worse OF
me fOr-for what I've done, or let
mother know, couldn't tell a stranger
even Il he went right to Arthur with
II" Then, stepping up to my side, she
whispered in my ear. There Is some
thing could say which might
1 stopped her. Right or wrong,
stopped her. She possessed evidence.
or thought she did. which might help
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Evidence which would implicate Car-
mel? The very thought unnerved me.
az had rather not be the recipient
of this confidence if 1t is all important
or at all In the line OF testimony. Re
member the man mentioned. He VIII
be glad to hear of anything helpful to
his client"
Her distress mounted to passion.
"It's-it's something that will de-
stroy my mothers confidence in me.
disobeyed her. did what she
would never have let me do fshe had
known. FL used to fmeet Arthur in
the driveway back by the barns.
had u key made to the little side door
60 that could do it. used to meet
him late. I woaId get up out OF bed
when mother was asleep and dress
myself and sit Mt the window until
heard him come up the street. Then
1 would steal down md catch him on
;iis way to the stables. IL had
f.ood reason for ehis.E ElwoOd. he
knew I would be there and it brought
him home earlier and not quite so
so full of liquor. II he was very bad
he would come up the other way. and
I would sit waiting and crying till 3
O'Clock struck, then creep into my bed
and try to sleep Nights and nights
have done this. Nothing else in life
seemed so Important, for It did hold
him back 4 little. but not so much as
II he had loved me more he loved
me some, but he couldn't have loved
me very much or he would have sent
me some word or seen me. II but for
n minute. since Adelaide's death. And |
he hasn't-he hasn't-and that makes
il harder for me to acknowledge the |
watch I kept on him and how 1 know |
he never went through our grounds !
for the second time that night. He |
went once, about 8. but not later. / |
am certain of this. for 1 was looking |
ont for him till I'm the morning II 1
he came back and then returned aft
ervyard to town it was through his
own street. and that takes so long
he would never have been able to get
70 tbe place they said he did at the
time they have agreed upon. 1 know
hat he needs some one to come out
boldly in his cause, and want to be
that some one and l win be, too,
whatever happens to me. if-if must"
she family added.
I was dumb. but not from lack Of in
terest or from unsympathetic feeling
for this brave hearted girl. The sig
nIficance of the situation was what
held me speechless. Here was help for
Arthur without my brnving all the
horrors of CarmeIs downfall by any
mpulsiye act of my own. For a mo-
nent hope in one burning and renew
NO flame scared high in my breast ]
vas willing to accept my release In
his way. was willing to shift the
Dad from my own back to the delicate
,houlders of this shrinking but ardent
fri Then reason returned If consid-
ration halted, and I asked myself: {
.Fsut is the help she offers of any prac-
teal worth? Would her tinid declarn- I
ions trembling as she was between
Ier awe of her parents and her desire s
4 serve the man she loved, weigh in I
he balance aEainst the evidence ac-
!, In1lated by the district Attorney {
n seemed doubtful. She would not l
% believed, and should have to back /
:, ber statement with my own hither- y
suppressed testimony-a woman to I
o sacrificed whichever course took |
uch native chtvalry as remained to {
40 urged me to spare this little friend :
Z mine. Then Carmel's image rose be
,re me. glorious, impassioned, driven Z
y the fierce onrush of some mighty
3berent force into violent deeds un-
reamed of by most women, but when
ms undriven, gentle in manner, ele-
tod I'm thought, refined as only few
80 characters are refined, and my
n stood stin again with doubt and
conId not say: EFT is your duty to
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