Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-16
.!nbt HggtD"I'SSs0 1880, bv Lerop Scott

,.,.y tbot he expects to get of
III nhon his case comes to trial.
,,w,,, MS not going to turn out like
49, Uncle George announced with
ouet sOlemnity' ,s - s.,
!. chair. "why not2'
y. aror several reasons. Wen come to
l put first, you and ] know he
n," . III, Murdock- we know he
'lpu % tbe Tombs and let some evil
e'D. ho niled up against him in order
: shield another man. We know that'
;oo don't we!
,pJ s guess we know who Harry
az ~ iail to protect--and l guess we
sens as . guess as to who really killed
larry Murdock. -,
aSsm Conway ..,.
,iaht tbat Sam Conway himself shot
! ooaU.t eIo"t don't know whether Con
huluV. ,,as in earnest, and honestly
wy TN,,ht he could really do it, when he
thousao ~ 70 ret Harry off If Harry
plo'hMi'Sd p',M draw attention away from Con-
Nou't hv standing for the Murdoch mur-
way W say, / don't know what
DER. - ronway's mind then. But ]
suov saS what's in his mind now. A lot
v sItb Things have happened since iast sum
For one thing, the death OF Mur-
wi, vi, has made Conway much Digger
a.St a.St;caI m figure in this town, and lot
peIiin .h;ngs 20 exactly the way Conway
y .ts st them to go. In the second place,
sat'Ms s.t 'Mnrdock affair has just taken such
psv Met that there has got to be q con-
\ I'VE I'VE The way things stand now,
nsuwsv 1s.,v couldn't help Harry even It he
|oopmSJ io-not unless he was willing
saa. ~ more than Sam Conway will ever
% w :,,;uo liz; to do, In short, it's got to
|S " "ther Conway or Harry--and it S
w sot going to be Conway.
Wv VafIncle George" gasped jennie:
nGnnuav is going to use all his
to save himself" the old man
Tsnt % on, "Those witnesses VINO gave
,sstimopy against Harry at the pre-
iiminary Sri hearing are not going to dis-
.nnaar as promised, but are going to
syps ..Is the stand against Harry-and
aSro .sm will be other witnesses. Hnrry's
.ase s,' comes up for trial in a month or
- ss .vheneyer the district attorney feels
H. N Il No story Harry can tell now
baSout S = Conway's asking him to stand
s ns tho trial, and nothing else he can
y, ~ will be believed. 1t will sound
~i.bty cheap. The way things are
srsd the verdict is the same as rem
i,rsS and the sentence the same as
,,tH .,,,rounced. And / don't need to tell
vnu what the sentence is going to be.
iiSsre--tbats M how the case stands. We
thOusht you ought to know:
INV God - she breathed, appalled,.
nind Harry was so sure Sam Conway
would get him off
"Som Conway. to save himself, is do
irg his damnedest to get Harry sent up
Harry doesn't have chance. That is,
unless"
IIe poused. his old eyes fixed on her
steadily. Suddenly sick, dizzy. as
never before, she knew the uncompleted
mart of Uncle Georges sentence. But
none the less her dry lips asked:
"Uness what. Uncle George?'
"UnlesS you were to state that you
we're with him on the Grantham roof
at the very time the murder was com
|mtted over near Third avenue
But-but-Unclc George - she
breathed
"Of course, could help alibi him. ="
the old man continued. "Aud could
yet that little elevator man to help
out with the alibi But that would be
certain to drag you in somehow, Jen-
ME; and I'm not going to make a
up 10 YOU, Jennie. Are we going to do
ANYTHING to help Harry?"
Terror seized upon her as her swift
mind yisualized herself on the witness
,tand down in the Criminal Courts
Building. "But-but-if l went on the
stand-the District Attorney" She
could get out no more.
That's exactly it," Uncle George
said gravCly. "Of course. you'd clear
Harry, but the District Attorney would
cross examine you until he'd found out
every last word about you. And what
led learn would give New York the
Dggest Jolt it's had for years.
She did not speak her tense facul-
yes were all engrossed in considerin"
ne N consequences. Certainly it would
al come olt-who she was-the bold
ana successful pretense she had prac-
nced upon the great world-even that
Jar u distant incident of her running away
70 escape sentence for forgery. Her
wnoie being was in violent revulsion. It
., ysn : tair! Why, oh, why, had Fate
paved such trick upon her, just when
"grynlng was going at its best?
/ uncIe George had seen the struggle
fS,ng S"1g on within her, and he had waited.
0u' at length he spoke.