The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-09-21

just possible that the man had been
pardoned. If so, why did lie nor recog.
nize and greet his old friend? The
deputy had been as friendly with him
as the regulations permitted, even
more than that
II he had not been pardoned. than lie
must have escaped, but that he could
sit there with such brazeu assurance
was not like Drayton. The deputy
found his position embarrassing IN Il
way. and yet II did not take him long
to make up his mind what to do
Dinner had been finished half an
hour before the deputy approached him
and said
81 have good memory for faces.
and lam sure have seen yours be-
fore"
1T may be So" was the careless 70,
ply. accompanied by smile.
Haven't ! met sou il the village II
WadsworthT naming the place where
the X state prison was situated.
Il may have passed through the place
on train, but am sure | never stop
ped there. 1t IL possible that we have
met before while travelling"
The voice, the movement Of the
mouth while speaking. tho look Of ths
eyes, everything about the man was
perfectly familiar to the oflcsr, bot h
suddenly decided to adopt a nov lfnA
OF policy for awhilA He would mssl
finesse with fnesse. The pair entered
into general conversation for two
hours, aud then the deputy sent out q
telegram asking the warden Of tf,a
state prison II Drayton bad bean par
donsd or had escaped Two hours lab
er. AZ he was neax1ng thu end of thu
journay. be received IN answ3 nsa4
Ing: -
-Drayton In still with IN and ~ tusl
been locked In bis cofl." {
Here was another puzzle, but n dld
not take the 'astuts official long to reach
conclusion. Drayton had claimed
that the felony had bean committed b.
some man resembling him Hare was
his prototype, his twin brother. While
he looked more like q respectable busi-
ness man than a thief, the ex-dsputy
determined not to Let him 10 without &
rigid examination.
1t happened that the two got on aC
the same city, and they had SCARCELY
descended from the train before the
stranger was given in charge by the
Official and taken to a police station. II
was a high handed thing to do, and IL
he was what he represented or seemed
to be he could make trouble for the
other.
Few men have done for another what
the deputy did for Drayton. He re-
NAMED with the stranger until he got
good grounds for his arrest on the old
charge. He brought the cashier and
others on Mt his own expense and got
tho authorities to extradite the man
and the courts to put him on trial and
| summon Drayton from state prison
When the two men finally stood to-
gether there were wonder and amaze
mcnt in the court. Their own moth
ers could not have told them apart. \
little detective work had unearthe1
bad record for the stranger, and. al
though he started out to make great
legal fight, he ended by confessing that
he was the guilty party and that Dray-
ton had served two years for crime
he ha,, not committed. The latter was
pardoned and restored to citizenship
and responsibility, while the guilty
one was sent to occupy his place in
prison, and the judge who had read a
moral lesson from the bench had some 4
thing more to say. His conscience had
been troubling him for the wny he
charged the jury against an innocent
man, and he sought to console 1t by
admitting that somewhere In the world
every man may find his prototype. but
that the law could not take cognizance
of the fact