Pueblo chieftain., 1921-04-03


see me again. Goodbye, and thank
| you."
SO saying he left as suddenly as he
came.
Chang Lo turned tho key over and
over in his hand and nodded approval
/ 1.-The seed of kind act blooms in the
perfumed flowers of gratitude" auoth
he as he clapped his hands for his
servant. Joe Wong.
Bring my tea to the upstairs room.
| 1t grows late an l am weary" he said
to the boy, as leaning on his shoulder
he ascended the stairs to his own pri-
vate apartments.
1T must be that am growing old
| because i tire so easily and my heart
| is sad" he thought. Then he remem-
bered that at this very hour his friend
| Madden stood in court with his liberty
and perhaps his life hanging in the
| balance-and leaving his tea untouched
! he knelt in prayer before the great gold
| en- idol on its altar at one end of the
richly decorated room. With deep
feeling burned incense and prayer
papers and bowed low, beseechlns that
his friends innocence might be proved
| In another part of the town silky
Moll sat in the crowded court room
her face white and hard, her eyes
blinded by tears as she listened to
one perjured lie after the other from
the gangsters who entered the witness
stand, prepared to swear her fathers
life away
Needless to say Black Mike did not
appear, and the carefully coached wit
nesses foreboro all mention of his
name, so that Moll never connected
the deed with him, but cursed the
plain clothes man for not staying
| bought and for trying to put over
something new on hen father. And
As she listened, puzzled but raging
inwardly, her heart kept growing
harder toward law and justice and
what she termed the reform clement
who would not stand by her father
and believe in him, when he had lost
so many profitable Jobs thru re-
naming, against his wish, straight.
| His good record of the past year
stood him in better stead than she
thought. however Also there was a
discrepancy in the evidence which his
well-pald 'lawyer-one OF the shining
lights of the town-discovered with
biting scrcasm. That the learned re-
marks of this gentleman touching on
both these points also had some effect
on the jury, no one can doubt. for
the verdict came in for only eight
months Imprisonment.
| Light as the sentence was. Silky
Mol almost tainted when she heard
| 1T Her father, whom she adored
above everything else In tho world
| Ntr 1ltNfIs " t'
to prison like a common crook-and
| for Il crime no did not commit,
| Sho was aroused by court at
tendant who told her she would have
to 30 around to the city prison n
I she wished to say goodbye to Silent,
as he was to be taken right away.
| Accompanied by a detective, she en-
tered for the last time the dreary walls
where he was confined. anu the in
describahlc prison odor-which no one
who has once known 1t ever torgeis-
| assniled her and made her conscious
once more of her degradation.
| In the mems prison were the lowest
dr-ss of the city. Next to Madden =
cell a negro slept sprawled out upon
the stone floor with his woolly head
touching the grating. Further drug
mouthea an ah~ccnity at her. which
passed unnoticcd by her escort. Mad
den leaned against the bars. his fine
old face standing out in pitful re-
| lief against tho sdualor OF his sur
roundings.
All his daughter could do. in spite OF
her spirited resolve to be brave, was
TO stretch out her arms TO him. and
sob as II her heart would break.
Bear up, Mol, my girl 'Twon't be
long now before I get out and thcn,
by God. I'll fix the men who did this
to both of u.s." exclaimed Madden pas
sionately, as he took her dear face
between both OF his hands and kissed
1t tendcrly.
The detective touched her on the
shoulder.
Times upi" said nc.
In a few moments she found herself
standing outside Of tho prison: facing
tho busy street and tho bright sun