The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-10-14
DrHn vuNrAND THE VIRGIN
BY PARKE REED
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BY PARKE REED
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paper Feature Service.
THE STORY:--John Clarewood has
been elected district attorney of Ell
liston, New Jersey, under the pledge
that he will clean up the city. A no.
torious vice gang controls the city
and cIarewood attacks it. He is then
warned by Wardell, the vice gangs
| lawyer, that If he does not let the
| vice gang alone he will be ruined.
Wardell gives Clarewood the copy or
an old family diary kept by Clare
that Clarewood has Negro blood, and
| threatens to publish the diary. After
| a terrible night of temptation Clare
wood decides to do his duty regard
less of consequence. The next day he
has the vice gang indicted 1U1ic Then tfa ne
Southern woman. that he is a Negro.
With much difficulty he convinces
her, and she shrinlSs from him hor-
rified.
Chapter IN.
| The Exposure.
1t was almost noon the next day
when -Clarewood got into his car to
60 downtown. He gulped the SWELL
ing in his throat and tried to look
as calm as if he had not lost his
wife.
For he had lost her. She was not
dead but the same as dead. He
knew that she would never let him
see her again. Before leaving the
house he had knocked at her bedroom
door to know II there was anything
she wanted to say to him. There was
| no reply and overcome by the de-
sire to look upon her for the last
/ time he had opened the door. There
Il q 81 nf
bare, the open door of the clothes
closet showed nothing but empty
hooks and all the toilet ARTICLES were
gone from the dresser
| A small sparkling object on the
floor had caught his eye. He had
picked 1t up. 1t was the wedding
ring which she had torn off in her
fury.
well that part of 1t is over" he
reflected as his car turned into the
business section OF the city she $
gone and that's all there is to it,"
By this time, he considered, she was
probably on an express train. speeding
to her father in the South. along with
the inseparable Aunt Annie.
When his car .l neared the court
crowded. AS he go out of the car
the huzz of comment died down and
the takers averted their faces. At
once he knew that Wardell and Broder
IN Spite OF Ino ndu SOHuo
way of getting the diary to the news
papers. A ragged newsboy rushed up
to him.
Here y'are, Misterr he screamed.
"All bout the district attorney! All
| bout"
Another newsboy. with a prodigious
wink, snatched the other one away
with stage whisper:
You bonehead! Dontcha know that's
him?"
alright, little boy" laughed Clare
wood, Fgive me copies of all of them"
| His spirits rose like those of an
admiral going into a battle. He rolled
] the papers under his arm and went
| iauntily into the building. The por-
| tiers, policemen, and elevator boys
! greeted him with that omnibus re-
spect which is accorded a condemned
man on the morning of his execution.
Entering his office by the public in
stead of the private door, he was
amused at what he saw.
There was not newspaper in sight.
4 Ordinarily there were a dozen lying
around on the desks. but on this par
| ticular morning every clerk and stem
ographer tried to look as IL he had
never read a paper in his life
Alone in his office. he turned to
the papers There 1t was. The Clar-
ion and the Pioneer, which had always
opposed him, carried streaming head
lines, 'John Clarewood Proved Negro"
! "Clarewood Exposed as Negro" and