The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-08

choking me. There was tho tread Of
feet outside the door. It opened and
two officers came In, stopping one ON
each side of the doorway, and then,
with a queer shock, I saw not the n
mar I had expected, but a file Of men,
shutting n behind the other and link
ed together by what seemed a long
steel chain from wrist to wrist into
the seeming of a single thing. This
thing halted opposite the railing and
faced about before me, where it ap-
peared to me as a line. Of heads and
moving arms and legs and shutting
feet But among them all I saw only
one individual. 1t was absurd II they
had expected to confuse me with these
other creatures. I saw him instantly,
and l knew him past hope of mistak-
ing. His clothes were all torn and
disordered. There was a cut on his
forehead and a bloodstained bandage
showed Oh his wrist beneath his sleeve,
and the bitter way he held his head up
and stared straight past me at the wall
made him seem quite grim and yet,
somehow, very forlorn. A lump rose
In my throat. 1 heard the chief of po-
lice saying, rs there any person here
you recognizer" / swallowed hard and
opened my lips, but the only sound
that anne was like a sob.
Quickly the prisoner turned his Eyes
on me. There crossed his face again a
look like the faint shadow Of that look
which had transfixed me as he burst
out of the door. But in a moment it
was gone. and he smiled. Such a
smile, so warm and kind. as If he were
reassuring and encouraging me to so
on! 1t transformed him from a terri
flying presence into something beauti-
full. 1t made me forget the others and
the room. and curiously in their place
came the confusing memory of n ball
room and Il slim boy with black brows
whirling down the polished floor with
his splendid partner, both In a gale of
laughter. Those long white hands,
now linked together with a chain
hadn't L seen them holding up a wo-
mans filmy draperies?
"Speak, Ellie" my fathers voice
said. Cant you tell us?"
1t brought me back from my fancies
with a great start, and before | knew
what I was saying I had stammered
out YES" The next moment I real
lied they were all waiting, waiting for
and looking at me. and 1t seemed as IL
I could not go on with the truth. 1t
was only the thought that everything
IaNanIaI ON n ava &ko% wvko&o-1, r
said. father would believe IL. that
nerved me to get through with 1t.
HE is that one," I said. "the fourth
from the enc"
The chief of police looked at me
sternly. You are sure of that?'
'Quite sure" I was surprised at
how steady my voice had grown.
The chief OF police said something
in a lifted voice. The line of prison
ers filed out with one of the police
men and left the man l had pointed
out alone in front Of ME. 1t was then
| noticed how his hands were awk-
wardly carried in front of him. held by
two steel bands around his wrists, with
a chain like a bracelet chain swinging
between. The sight OF 1t affected me
strangely. l had a new bracelet which
also had two bands with a chain be-
tween, but they were of gold. and both
were worn on the n hand.
The chief of police came and stood
beside me and said. Look at this per-
son. Miss Fenwick." And l had been
looking at him all the time. as If by
doing that l could make him under
stand how terribly l wished | had
never seen him. Can you take your