The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-11-19
CHAPTER XIV.
Alice Haviiand.

| NUCC bVaVtaVO.
The confused murmur OF far-ofY
voices came to my ears and vaguely
annoyed me. Why couldn't they let q
man sleep? And what kind of a pill
low was 1t that felt like a mans arm
and trembled? Couldn't man be let
| alone when he was tired? Then the
| -nurmur became words.
Hes coming around" I heard
some one say. That sounded like Alice
| Walton's voice. What did she want
around here? She was lost. l had
"Give me that whisky flask"
That was Jamison. Sure it was.
| The fiery stuff in my throat choked
me and opened my eyes.
Thank Heaven" l heard the law
yer murmur. tried to sit UP, but the
nausea overcame me; my side seemed
| red-hot. / sank back on the held.out
arm.
! turned my head and saw it was
the coroner who supported me: the
coroner I had hit that night. Funny
he should be holding me. wasn't It.?
Ousht to- arrest mk-then the cob
| webs cleared away.
mike Garven tried to shoot me-"
whispered.
"He succeeded" Jamison said grim.
ly. Another inch and 1t would have
hit your lung. Just grazed rib. The
doctor is on the way"
II don't need a DOCTOR" protested
as smile Of happiness came. We
| got him, and we got him good"
"My bunch came right, as knew 1t
would" exclaimed Jamison. "When
you told me what Kennedy had said
of Slivers O'Hagen, and Garven in
Virginia, and then the story of the
girls brother, the bunch came.
thought God wouldn't let 1t go wrong.
| The detectives could get nothing in
Richmond, and l needed the girl TO
see that thumb-print | threw before
her so carelessly. The detectives To-
Gated her and her father and the
banker early this morning in the
| Bronx"
Ny eyes hardened. Where was the
| girl? / couldn't see her in the crowd
that surrounded me. But | was sure
| / had heard her voice
81 never thought Of that" I said
lifelcssly. 1--WE been fool all through.
But we got Mike Garven.'
A motion of The lawyers hand sepa-
| rated the crowd. The coroner raised
me, and saw Mike Garven manacled
to a chair. 1t wasn't the Mike Garven
| I had seen so many times before but
a loose-lipped, glaring-eyed, huddIed-
| UP figure whose hands twitched at his
sides. The thing of stone had become
| putty. He did not even look at me.
"Slivers O'Hagen's prophecy came
more than true" said Jamison solemn
ly. 1.-THE boiler exploded and left
nothing but wreck. He has con
fessed everything"
THANK Heaven" whispered, and
| my eyes closed -wearily.
felt hand touch mine and opened
them again.
Kennedy was bending over me, tears
streaming down his haggard face.
Yen forgive the thing I did, jim
my boy?" he pleaded. "Ye1l forgive
an old man an not ask tn reason?"
Forgive your" grinned feebly.
"f never had any other feeling
don't care what he had on you. He's
caught at last"
THANK we, Jimmy" he said bro
kenly.
/ saw the girl standing over me
then. looked into her eyes eagerly
and saw sympathy in them-but not
| the thing had prayed for.
II ask your forgiveness" she said
soberly. II have wronged you cruelty,
and you have found my brothers
murderer. Father and thank you"
"All right" I said huskily. This
was all she had to say.
Jamison pushed his way through
the silent crowd and stood at the
| girls side.
II want you 10 shake hands with a
man who would have given his life
for you, Miss Walton" he said earn
| estly. "a man who had chosen to be-
come wanderer over the face of the
earth, with a price on his head as a
murderer, rather than obey the will
OF the man who had become his mas
ter: Jim Haviland, mani"
Something in his eyes and voice
made me sit up. felt the wad Of
handkerchiefs they had put at my
side to stanch the blood slip down; I
felt the warm stuff flow again; but
| paid no heed.
Don't you know, girl? cried.
Don't you know? fixed It all up
with Carter. the cashier, when I went
to the bank that morning. There was
draft all ready, and when I went in
the small booth to write the deposit
slip, while Carter kept your father
and Trevor talking, a bank messen-
ger whom Carter had fixed was
crouched in corner 10 take'theemon-
sy-your money.