, 1921-10-15


backing down now; I'm taking my
punishment Whatever you please 70
make II. III take IL. and that no went
on. more slowly. makes It harder for
me to ask what ! want to asx. and
Il for my sif-"
He stopped and the Hence In the
room seemed TO give him some faint
encouragement Of sympathy. though Il
was rather thu Silence Of curiosity.
Colonel stognrt CAV q stern look
upward. and asked the prisoners wife.
In n whisper. II she knew what her
husband meant to say. but she shook
her head She ala net know. The Dis
trics Attorney smiled induisently AT
tho prisoner and al h men about
oncr.
That man there ssid Barrow.
pointing with one gaunt hand nj thu
boy attorney, told you I had no part
or parce, IN this city or IN this world:
that 1 belonged to the past; that I had
ought to b. dead Now that's not 90.
I have Just. one thing that belongs 70
this city and this world-and to me:
one thing that l couldn't aks to jail
with me. and that IN have to leave
behind me when / 20 back TO It. /
AAEAl my NAcs
The prisoner stopped. and looked 80
steadily Mt ono place below him that
those in the back OF the court guessed
Tor tho nrst time hat Mrs. Barrow
was In tho room. and GRAINED forward
to look at her. and there was q mo-
mont OF confusion and n murmuer OF
Get back therei" "Sit rtiIlf- The
prisoner turned to Judge Truax again
and squared his broad shoulders. max
Ing h more conspicuous his narrow
and sunlren chest
You. air." he said. quietly. with q
change from tho tons OF b~raggndocic
with which he had begun to speak. .ro-
member her. sir. wien I married her
twelve years ago. She was Henry Hol-
mans daughter. he who owned the San
Ingo Ranch and the triangle brand. ]
took her from the home she had with
her father against that gentloman'u
wishes, sir. TO live with me over my
dsnce-hall at the silver Star. You may
remember her as sho was then. She
gave up everything = woman ought 70
have to como to me- She thought shs
was going to DO happy with me: that's
why she come I guess- Maybe she
was happy for about two weeks. After
that frst twp weeks her life, sir, was
q hell. and / made II q he'll ! waa
drunk most Of tho time or sleeping Il
on. and usiy-tempered when I was
sober. There was shooting and carry
ing on all day n night downstairs
and she didn't dare to leave her room
Besides that, she cared for me, and she
was afraid every minute / was golng
to get killed That's the way she lived
for two years. Respectable women
wouldn't speak to her because abe was
my wife; even them that were friend,
OF hers when Ehe lived on the ranch
wouldn't speak to her on the street
and she had no children. That was her
life: she lived alone over the dance
hall: and sometimes when I was drunk
II beat her"
The mans white face reddened SLOWLY
as he said this; n he stopped, and
then continued more quickly, with hii
eyes still fixed on those Of the Judge
A the and Of Two years / lille<
Welsh, n they sent me to tho peni,
tertiary for ton years. md she WA
free. h could have gone back to hel
folks and got a divorce II shed wantst
to. and never seen me again. It was
an escape most women q gone down
On their knees and thanked theil
Maker for. and blessed tho day thsyst
been freed from q blaokguarcly drunken
brute.
But what aid this Woman dom,
wife, tho woman I misused and beai
and dragged Town in the mud with me
She IVA too mighty proud to, 20 bacl
to her people or to the friends witt
shook her when she was IN trouble
and she sold tut h place. and boughI
a ranch with the money, and WORKER
It by herself. worked It day and night
until In ten years h had made her.
self an old woman, as you see she Il
today.
And for whatf To got mo fro.
again: to bring me things to eat II
jan. and picture per- and tobacco
when she was living on bacon and DO
~tatoes. and drinking alkaIi water
working to pay for a lawyer to hghI
for me-to pay for the best lawyer
She worked In the fields with her owl
hands. planting and ploughing, working
as l never worked for myself in mi
whole lazy. rotten life. That's whai
that woman there did for me-.
Tho man stopped suddenly, ant
turned with a puzzled look towards
where his wife sat. for she had dropped
her head on the table in front Of her
and be had heard her sobbing.
And what 1 want to ask OF you, sir
is to let me have two years out Of jai
to show her how I feel about II. I.asi
you not to send me back for life, SIR
Give me just two years-two years o.
my Life whi1o I have some strength LEFT
to work for her as she worked for me
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