Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-11-18
CHAPTER XIV.
Alice HavlIand.

Alice ffdSlIan0.
The confused murmur OF tarof
voices came to my ears and vaguely
annoyed me. Why couldn't they let q
man Sleep And what kind of pil
low was 1t that felt like a mans arm
and trembled? Couldn't man be lei
alone when he was tired? Then the
murmur became words.
He's coming around" heard
some one say. That sounded like Alice
Waltons voice. What did she want
around here? She was lost. I had
Give me that whisky flask"
That was Jamison. Sure 1t was
The fiery stuff in my throat choked
me and ! opened my eyes.
THANK Heaven!" I heard the law
yer murmur. tried to sit up, but the
nausea overcame me; my side seemed
red-hot. I sank back on the held-out
arm.
turned my head and saw It. was
the coroner who supported me: the
coroner had hit that night. Funny
he should be holding me, wasn't it?
Ought to arrest me-then the cob
webs cleared away.
mike Garven tried to shoot me-" /
whispered
HE succeeded" Jamison said grim
ly. Another inch and it would have
hit your lung. Just grazed a rib. The
doctor Is on the way"
II don't need DOCTOR" protested
as smile of happiness came. We
got him. and we got him good"
MY hunch came right, as knew It
would" exclaimed Jamison. when
you told ME what Kennedy had said
OF Slivers 0'Hagen, and Garven in
Virginia, and then the story of the
girls brother. the hunch came. I
thought God wouldn't let It 60 wrong.
The detectives could get nothing In
Richmond, and / needed the girl to
see that thumb-print 1 threw before
her so carelessly. The detectives 10
Gated her and her father and the
banker early this morning in the
Bronx"
My eyes hardened. Where was the
girl? l couldn't see her in the crowd
that surrounded me. But / was sure
had heard her voice.
81 never thought OF that" I said
lifelessly. 'I've been fool all through.
But we got Mike Garven."
A motion of the lawyers hand sepa-
rated the crowd. The coroner raised
me, and I saw Mike Garven manacled
to chair. 1t wasn't the Mike Garven
had seen so many times before but
a loose-lipped. glaring-eyed, huddled-
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. "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.
"Ye'll forgive the thing did, jim
my boy?" he pleaded. "Yeu forgive
an old man an not ask tn reason?"
forgive you?" l grinned feebIy.
II never had any other feeling. I
don't care what he had on you. He's
caught at last"
"Thank ye. Jimmy" he said bro
kenly.
I 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 l thank you."
"An right" 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 to 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 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 Il
paid no heed.
Don't you know, girlf n cried.
Don't you know? 1 fixed It all I'D
With Carter. the. cashier, when went
to the bank that morning. There was
a 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 to take the mon.
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