The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-09-17

al&p11[WANVML his prisoner, hurrylng
a.sss,Lssa9AAWsN detail from the female
hMlh1gRQANWN ward came rushing down
9g@9l the steps after him.
"That lady upstairs
her, what just identified him." said the
detail Jerking a thumb at the pale-faced
man in automobile attire, whom Flynn was
conducting, wants to see you again. Says
it's somethin' special. She's been moved
from the operatin room into Ward now.'
For few moments the sergeant hesitated,
gazing about the bare-hoored room. Out-
side, IN the moonlit yard of the big institu-
ton, the wagon from the Central District
station was waiting, the driver and the
policeman assigned to the vehicle smoking
placidly. Flynn called the latter.
Jim, Just look after this man and take
him down to the Central, till we know
sonethin' about his bail, will your" he
called. "TeH the lieutenant the girl said
he was the guy who ran over her, all right.
I'm goiT' upstairs again.
That joy rider is sure scared, " remarked
the ee.ail with enjoyment as he and the
sergeant climbed the stairs together, and
started down the long bare halls, Lit family
by ineandescents and with the inevitable
hospital odor seeming to hang like mist in
the air "He shook all over when you took
hirn upstairs He tried to talk and just
couldn't How did it happen, anyway"
Don't know. Carroll made the pinch"
answered Flynn briefly, as the detail rang
for the head nurse at the door Of the female
ward
Far down the long room, looming up In
ghostly fashion under the dim glow of the
night lights, was large white screen, en-
tirely inclosing one of the beds. Thither
the nurse conducted the sergeant, who,
awkWardly tiptoeing after her, inwardly
swore at the fashion in which his big frame
seemed to bring creak from the flooring at
every step. In the bed behind the screen,
the E'rrid'rl,-Lai= making tangled mass on
pain OF the examination in tie oDe s1a +, the
room and the reaction from dr,,as lie
girl who had just been dangerously, n ny lne
by the speeding auto.
Did you want to see me, Maggie7"
asked Flynn, awkwardly, depositing him
self carefully in chair II think 1 got
all that's needed-Carroll got him, you
know"
The girl interrupted with wave of her
hand
cts nothin' about that, Mat" she said,
her voice tremulous with pain and nervous
shock; " knew how it was just as soon as I
came out from under the ether They try
to jolly me along all right-but can feel it
here, and she put her hand to her side.
It's about another thing" she went on
painfully. fists just this: you used
to think a lot of me, Mat. know never
treated you right. know you thought it
was dirty trick for-for me to throw you
down and marry Dan. But there's no use
talxin' now. That's done. Ard l want to
know if you'll do somethin' for rle?"
There was time thought YOU d be my
good angel, Maggie" said the sergeant
gloomily, you know when-but, as YOU
say, there amt no use tall1in' now But
I'll do anythin I can for you"
Then it's this, Mat, proceeded the girl,
though her tones were getting weaker, and
aer breath was commencing to come faster,
"I've got to say it quick, for they told me
not to talk much. Dan fights tomorrow.
talk of a frame-up against him The papers
tV-Ody Say you IC 10 DC III charge OF the
police squad. VIII you-will you-see he
gets fair show?"
For fewmoments, although he heard her
query, Flynn sat gazing at her dumbly.
Before him rose vision of the times when
he himself had hoped to marry Maggie-to
have her with him always. And then came
the picture of another man who had stepped
on the scene when he had deemed Maggie
virtually pledged to himself. This was
Dan Myles, the welterweight
I'll wouldn't ask you, Mat she
gasrsd family, If it wasn't that thought
he was goin' to get all the worst. Some ways
haven't the right to ask you. Ifound it
it wasn't just what I'd hoped for, after I'd
been married short time and learned Dan
drank. But when the baby came it changed
me somehow. It's the boy I'm thinkin' of,
Mat. Dan hasn't saved a cent and
made him promise to settle some on the
baby if he wins tomorrow, Mat Can't
you-won't you only see he gets fair show
just for old times2"
Her voice died awayin whisper, and the
nurse, appearing behind thescreen, beckoned
imperatively to the policeman, who rose
awkwardly.
He'll get fair deal if I'm on the job"
he said huskily
"And-and I'll try, and maybe 1 can