Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-29
A DAUGHTER of TWO WORLDS
Story Of Net York life
By LEROY SCOTT
author Of NO. Washington Square" Mary Reodn etc.

Your turn, Slim. There won't be
much for you to write, so there will
be room on the same sheet of paper.
Get ready
Slim dipped the pen.
You write that you always were
crook even long ago when you used
to work in Jerry Malone's joint.
Write that you learned that
Jennie Malone was clever with her
peu, and that you put her up to forg
ing. you managing everything except
the signing Of the checks.
Write that that Morrison check, for
which she was arrested five or six years
ago, was the same as the others--that
YOU, besides putting her up to it. did
all the crooked work except signing
the check. Write that you
asked her TO take all the blame in
court. SO S you d be kept out of it, and
write that she done just what you
asked. That's all for you,
Slim Jackson, except signing on the
dotted line .r.....,.
slim attached his signature. He
clearly saw way of making all this
worth less than nothing.
Keeping the pair covered with his
automatic, Black Jerry, with his rub
Der glovcd hand, picked up the copfes
sion aud read it carefully. Then he
pushed it back to Kenneth.
Address an envelope to the district
attorney Of New York county he
ordered and write ,op it, 1mme-
diatc. Kcuneth complied. Nov,
fold that paper, put it in the envelope.
seal il and put it III the center OF this
table" =,
"Now that. you've got it, Jerry"
said Slim. trying to speak nonchai-
sutly, what's your next pleasant ut
tie ORDER
Jerry rose from the table. He was
going forward with his plan grimly,
heavily. almost mechanically.
Next you two stand up, be or
dcrcd.
But what's the dea?' Slim pro,
tested. Where do We go from here!
That's what I'm going to tell you,
Stand up" The two men obeyed.
Nov. back up against the wall while
yon listen to II few things.
They went backward until their
shoulders were against the mahogany
papeling. Jerry faced them, Slim 5
automatic in ono hand. Kenneth 5 au-
tomato thrust into the front of his
trousers. More poignantly than ever
before he thought of Jennie, of the
sorry end of his dreams and long plan
Mug for her; and in his subcopscious
mind were also those things OF which
Doris Dorraine had told him--thinss
which had wrecked other lives. All
that men had called primitive, brutal,
Immoral. surgcd up in him to a climax
of fury--all that was rcmorseless.
"Slim Jackson, he gritted, you We
always been, liar aud a crook and
every damned rotten thing there is. II
il hadu' been for you my Jennie would
have made good. You deserve the
worst the state can give you.. but
you're too smooth ever to get caught:
But. Slim, you re not SO clever that
/ didn't guess what was passing IN
your head. Don't you suppose / un'
derstand that if YOU get away now
that confession won't help Jennie q
damn? SO you rn not going to get
away. I'm going to save Jennie I'm
going to do what the state ought
Slim lunged swiftly at him, bn'
Jerry, on the alert. caught him in, q
great hand that closed upon shirt
front and coat lapels. at the same time
covering Kenneth with his weapon
"I'd like to choke you. Slim Jack