Pueblo chieftain., 1921-04-03
"OUTSIDE THE LAW"
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II, friend of her fathers. Pure guile of
course. she was a smooth baby, and
| they were both out to do him. Well
he might as well get rid of the pair
of them and make good job of It
with the police and send her up for
long term and then take better aim
at Madden the moment he stepped
outside the prison gates.
| II Mike had possessed god as
Chang Lo did. he would doubtless have
prayed to him to change his luck. AS
it was he cursed under his breath as
he walked along. with his eyes seeing
everything, though apparently he was
looking down at the pavement. And
all the while he was planning fresh
evil.
having been finished, he rose and
taking a volume of the sacred writings
! of Confucius, he studied them reven-
entity while he slipped his tea in a cup
! of egs-shell thinness and priceless
decoration.
About half an hour of this had
passed, and the old man was about
to order his servant to draw the
shades and light the lanterns, for it
was after sundown when some one
with hasty gesture and a shrill voice
| burst PAST Wong and stood before
| him.
! 1t was Mol, who had wandered thru
the streets for several hours like n
mad woman almost beside herself,
wondering whether she ought to live
| or die.
! Now she stood before the aged phil
osopher. and laughed in a hard voice
! fun of scorn.
I DO YOU know why I have come.
Chang Lo? Chang L,o of the pleasant
maxims and the teachings only fit
( for fools and children? 1t Is to tell
+ you that I have just seen my father
among the lowest OF criminals sent to
prison for something he did not do
when instead of it, II we had not
listened to you, he might at this mo-
ment be at liberty; and both of MS
enjoying life. We might be rich, well
dressed, in luxurious company on the
/ high seas or in South America or Paris
or London and with the best of the
world at our command. And whose
fault is II VIC are not prosperous IN
stead of degraded Yours, o philoso-
pherl"
who can understand tho ways Of
the gods" quoth Chang Lo. Your
father saved youth from his folly
many moons ago. and yet today. hear
/ ing OF your trouble, he brings me this
key to a refuge" and he told her the
story of his customer that afternoon.
II shall probably have occasion to
J use it, answered Mol bitterly, as she
put the key and the address in her
purse, but for the present understand
this You said 1t paid to go straight?
Well, IT paid my father with u bullet
hole in his shoulder and eight months
at st. Quentin. Now. listen to me!
4 l am no philosopher. but I am going
to tell you my creed from now on: m
out for all ! can get I'm thru FOL
lowing the straight path Of reform.
What have straight. honest people
done for me? They let my father be
taken from mo, Well. honesty is all
off as far as I'm concerned LIN go
ing to take every tip / can Gct-pull
off every job that's worthy of my skill
be tho queen OF the underworld as
H." started TO O0-a"' S'' away "'
Change Lo tried to soothc her with
reason. He set food and tea before
her. but she would not touch them.
He did evrything in his power to try
to change her frame OF mind. IL was
useless. With dry SOB in her throat
that sounded as II her heart was
breaking. she fled past him into the
gathering darkness of the streets.
/ She had reached the entrance TO her
home before she discovered that Black
Mike was following her.
In tho little sitting room OF her
nat he unfolded his plan. He had his
talk already prepared. He played upon
her love for her father, her hatred for
the powers that had sent him to pri-
son. and her desire for revenge. Her
vanity. too, ho touched on:
'Yuh an me would work great to-
Gether! There's nothin' We couldn't
MT" was the way he smirkingly put
IL.
In tho end he hintcd that he had the
very job for her-ono with big money
and hardly any risk for a woman OF
brains.
For n swell skirt liko yuh twould
ba like plckin' 'em up in tho street"
he urged. An II You cracked 1t right,
yuh an your father could live soft
for the rest of yer days. Arc yuh on?'
And Moll sworc she was on-and
more than onto any big job hc might
plan.