The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-09-30
1.-THE VAMP AND THE VIRGIN"
by Pnrke Reed.

THE vAMP AND THE VIRGIN"
by Pnrke Reed.
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THE SToRY:--John Clarewood. dis
trict attorney of Elliston New Jer-
sey is about to start proceedings
against the vice gang which has DOM
mated the city for ten years. war
dell, the vice gangs lawyer, gives
cIarewood some papers and threatens
to publish their contents unless clare
wood desists. Clarewood reads the
papers, which are a copy of his great
erandfather's diary that has been un-
earthed by Wardell. Through the diary
Clarewood learns that his great
Realizing that the publication of those
papers will ruin him. politically. so-
cially, and legally, Clarewood passes
a terrible night. In the end he resolves
to do his duty regardless OF conse-
quences. The next day he puts
through the indictments against the
vice gang. Then he returns home TO
tell his new found secret to his wife.
who is a daughter of Of the South.
Chapter VII.
lie Tells His Wife.
Now for the hardest part of it,
said John Clarewood as his car glided
help me keep my neryeP'
What an ordeal 1t would be to
have to tell Virginia! She knew moth
ing as yet and he felt a pang at hav-
ing kept her in suspense. But he had
to fight 1t out by himself; now that
he had won the victory over hlmslf
another battle awaited him. Because
of her very love for him he must
tell her the truth.
1n.a
revocably than If she had died. No
grave was as deep or wide as the
chasm that would divide them when
he should tell her the truth And now.
as his car turned into his street, he
bowed his head.
Virginia met him at the door, as
radiant as a spring morning. His
heart ached as he looked at her.
Hail, herei" she said gaily. Home
from battle with dusty brow and no
wounds"
No" he laughed, trying to be jolly,
I'm not:skinned alive yet and I've
landed some scalps Here, take these
evening papers-they're full of news.
Read them while ! wash the battle
Crime from my face"
Eyes, and hurry John. Aunt An
mes almost through cooking dinner"
lie ran upstairs without stopping
to kiss her, taking advantage of her
pre- occupation with the headlines of
the papers.
In twenty minutes he was ready for
for dinner. 1t was a real dinner one
to aunt Annie's best. Virginia could
hardly eat, she was so full of her
husbands success in putting through
the indictments. Throughout the meal
Aunt Annie came and went
John Clarewood furtively watched
Aunt Annie. with a new interest, as
he now knew that he was one of her
race. Aunt Annie was a powerful, gray
haired ColoTed woman of light COM
plexion, smiling. motherly DISPOSE
ton and a passionate love for Virginia,
whom she had nursed through baby
hood in the South. Though she in
sisted on living in the Negro quarter
of Elliston, she was in and out of
OF Clarewood's house all the time
Virginia, whose mother had died two
or three days after her birth, could
could not do without Aunt Annie and
called for her every time she had an
lche or a pain. No physicians anodyne
could quiet her like Aunt Annie's
voice and petting hand
Now my hero" said Virginia when
Inner was over. ITS about time you
we're telling me what worried you