Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-01-08
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charge halted before her. Then,
abruptly, the round. baby-like face of
the woman puckered in amaZement.
Her voice rose shrill. well. If 1t amt
Mary Turner!!" .
"Aggie!" was the reply.
In the time that followed Mary lived
In the fat which Aggie Lynch occu-
pied with her brother. Jim, a p%ickpock-
ct much esteemed among his fellow
craftsmen. The period wrought trans
formations of a radical and bewilder-
ing sort in both the appearance and
the character of the girl.
Joe Carson. the forger, had long been
acquainted with Aggie and her broth
er, though be considered them far be-
meath him in the social scale, since
their criminal work was not of that
high kind on which he prided himself,
But as he cast about for some woman
to whom he might take the hapless
girl he had rescued his thoughts fell
on Aggie. He was relieved rather
already al acquaintance between the
two women. and the fact that his
charge had served time In prison did
not influence him II iot against her.
Mary let herself drift. It seemed to
her that she had abandoned herself to
fate in that hour when she threw her
self into the river. Afterward, with
out any volition on her part, she had
been restored to life and set within an
environment new and strange to her,
in which soon, to her surprise, she
discovered a vivid pleasure. So she
fought no more, but left destiny to
work it's will, unhampered by her fu-
tile strivfngs.
For the first time in her life, thanks
to the hospitality of Aggie Lynch, Sc
cretly REINFORCED from the funds of
Joe Carson, Mary found herself living
in luxurious idleness, while her every
wish could be gratiied by the merest
mention of It. She was fed on the
daintiest Of fare, she was clothed with
the most delicate richness for the first
time as to those more mysterious gar
ments which women love. In addition,
there were as many of books and mag
azines as she could wish.
Her mind. long starved like her body,
seized ayidly on the nourishment thus
afforded. In this interest Aggie had
no share-was perhaps a little envi.
GUS over Mary's absorption in printed
pages. Aggie took a vast pride in her
guest. with the unmistakable air Of
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great triumphs to come, though as
yet she carefully avoided any sugges
ton to Mary Of wrongdoing.
In the end the suggestion came from
Mary Turner herself. to the great sur.
prise of Aggfe, and. truth to tell. of
herself.
There were two factors that chiefly
influenced her decision. The first was
due TO the feeling that. since the world
had rejected her, she need no longer
concern herself with the worlds opin-
ion or retain any scruples over 1t.
Back OF this lay her bitter sentiment
toward the man who had been the di-
rec of her imprisonment. Ed
ward Glider.
The factor that was the immediate
cause Of her decision on an irregular
mode Of life was an editorial in one
of the daily newspapers. This was a
scathing arraignment Of a master In
high finance. The point Of the writ
er's attack was the grim sarcasm for
such methods Of thieyery as are kept
within the law. That phrase held the
girls fancy. and she read the article
again with a quickened interest. Then
she. began-to mediate.