The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-11-27

II you are going to pay for every minu
II of them. Mr.. Glider. There won't
II q day or an hour that won't remen
| Der that at the last it was your wor
sent me to prison. And you are goin
| to pay me for that You are going
pay me for the five years l have stary
ed making money for you-that toe
/ You are going to pay me for all til
things | am losing today, and
| The girl thrust forth her left hand
on that side where stood the officer
So vigorous was her movement tina
Cassidy's clasp was thrown Off thu
wrist. But the bond between the tive
was not broken. for from wrist tC
wrist showed taut the steel chain oil
the manacles. The girl shook the links
of the handouts In a gesture stronger
than words
''You are going to pay me for this!''
she said Her voice was little more
than whisper. but 1t was loud In the
listeners heart. Yes. you are going
to pay-for thisp'
They were grim years. those three
years during which Mary Turner serv-
ed her sentence In Burnsing. There
| was no time Off for good behavior. The
girl learned soon that the favor of those
set III authority over her could only be
won at cost against which her every
maidenly instinct revolted. So she
went through the inferno Of days and
nights In dreariness OF suffering that
was deadly. Naturally the life there
was altogether an evil thing. There
was the material III ever present In the
round of wearisome physical toil--the
coarse. distasteful food: the hard mar
row couch: the constant. gnawing irk-
someness Of imprisonment away from
light and air. away from all that
makes life worth while.
The best evidence Of the fact that |
Mary Turner's soul was not fatally |
soiled must be found in the fact that |
still at the expiration of her sentence |
she was fully resolved TO live straight.
as the saying Is which she had quoted
to Glider. This. too. In the face OF
sure knowledge as to the difficulties
that would beset the effort and In the
face OF the temptations offered to fol
low an easier path
There was, for example, Aggie
Lynch, fellow convict, with whom
'be had a slight degree of acquaintance.
nothing more. This young woman. a
criminal by training. offered allure
nents Of Legitimate employment in
he outer world when they should be
rec. Mary endured the companion
hip with this prisoner because sixth
ense proclaimed the fact that here
vas one immoral rather than immoral.
nd the difference is mighty.
For that reason Aggie Lynch was
ot actively offensive. as were most of
he others. She was a dainty little
lond, with baby face, In which were
ct two light blue eyes of sort to
iden often In demure wonder over
lost things In surprising and naugh- I
= world She had been convicted OF {
lackmail. and she made no pretense Q
ven OF Innocence. Instead. she was l
lclned to boast over her ability TO q
am boozle men at her will. She was
natural actress Of the ingenue role, b
nd In that pose she could unfailingly &
aguile the heart Of the wisest Of q
oridly men. &
She bad been reared in a criminal
Imily. which must excuse much. Il
ong ago she had lost track Of her b
ther Her mother she had never re
lown. Her one relation was a broth W
of high standing as a pickpocket
ne principal reason of her success in p'
aiding on men to make fools Of them
Ives over her. to their everlasting re-
ct afterward. lay In the fact that In
lite Of all the gross irregularities Of
# life she remained chaste.
The girl saw IN Mary Turner the
ssibilities OF ladylike personality
at might mean much financial profit
the devious ways of which she was
mistress With the frankness char
terlstic of her. she proceeded to paint
wing pictures OF a future shared
3 undoing Of ardent and fatuou
aims. Mary Turner listened wit
riosity, but she was in no wis
wed to follow such a life. eve
ugh 1t did not necessitate anythln
rise than a fraudulent playing
e. SO. she steadfastly continued be
usals. She would live straight
You will find that you are u
inst an awful FROST" Aggie woul
lare brutally.
larry found the prophecy true. BAG MI
New York she experienced a pow
: more ravaging than any she had
'wn In those FIVE lean years of her
rking In the store. She had been
olutely penniless for two days. and
bout food through the gnawiug
rs. when she found employment In
shop. Followed blessed
rival In which she worked content a
z. happy over the meager stipend. AS
e 1t served to give her shelter and oEa
! honestly earned Szs
he police Informed Mary's employer
rernlng her record rs q convict.
she was Mt once discharged. The cha
victim of the law came abr,
lousy close 10 despair then. Yet. tho
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