The Washington times., 1921-04-21

Serial Of a Girl Who Sells Herself, Becomes a
Criminal and Then, Under the Uplifting
Environment of Real Love, sf
2 Regains Her Soul

sympathy or hatred. and the case
WAS sub judice.
But that one story stirred the I'M
agination OF the public. And the
sordid tale told OF woman killing
her fcklc lover in an attack of
offended vanity faded into Eol-
den haze of romance. The scented
smell of the tropics came to their
nostrils, and their eyes saw gol-
den sands and phosphorescent seas.
And here the palms murmured with
a rustic as of exotic silks, and the
bird of Paradise winged its rides
cent flight through the Opaque Mar
quesan dusk: And the spirits OF
strange gods moved upon the face
OF the waters,
Here was setting for Scheher-
. azade and here characters for a
master writer; n patrolman OF New
York. young. athletic. unspoiled.
canny with the knowledge Of his
native city, brave as only his kind
is brave; and here a woman from
the sIoughs of the TenderlQin, an
admitted beauty, a proven murder
ess
What drama in that isle of
dreams, in that immense act of
nine rolling years? And did she
love him. or did she hate him?
And had he succumbed to her, MS
Adam to Liiith in Eden before Eve
was? Or had he resisted her as
Anthony of Egypt resisted the sue
cuba in the desert near Fayum?
And did she wheedle him with
words sweeter than honey? Or did
she curse him with strange, black
biasphemies? Or was 1t just one
long dumb vigil Of hatred? Or had
they become good friends, hunter
and hunted. marooned now on the
islands of strange dead gods?
In Gods name, what?
At any rate they would soo1
know.
"ofdcer Thomas Mccarthy. this
wayr
NEW ELEMENT.
Then of a sudden, up rose How
ard Donegan. The judge on the
bench, the jurymeD, the prosecut-
ing attorney, the court, the pris-
oner herself, all looked at him with
a hesitant surprise. Somehow his
action was surprisingly dramatic.
He stood up slowly and said moth
ing, but looked around.
Into the drama of crime and ro-
nance, there was injected a new
element, powerful sluggish, but
immensely sure.
'If it please the court" went his
heavy, Significant voice, may i
say few words?"
TT is hardly regular at this
period, Mr.. Donegan." the judge
said, puzzled. Surely you will have
an opportunity later on"
1.-The opportunity is opportune
only now Like some strange
q. 81 cathedral tho
great animal appeared. His eyes,
Under their threatening hoods, were
black and beady like the eyes OF
some malevolent creature of the
jungle.
His mouth, wide, thin slit,
pouted like, the mouth of nsh.
His sedentary body was massive
and grotesque like some monster
of a mad artists drawing. His
voice creaked like unoiled ma
chinery-but God! what power was
there.
Your Honor. men OF the jury
and Mr.. District Attorney. at any
point / could have obstructed the
course of this trial until all of you
were weary in your chairs.
could have obfuscated facts and
motives and testimony until you
were as uncertain of truth as
PLATE.
"The woman wilkins could
have shown that her word
was no more 60 be depended on
than the word OF the village idiot.
Mr.. Rowland Christy, De Vries'
relative could have shaken him
on the stand until he would have
been uncertain of his testimony,
Ccpyright, international Magazine Compan,
Ito BE Continued T0mSrr0wD.