, 1922-11-27
The GIRL N THE PICTURE

-~-.tvr. tells this story of h great
~-tn,nal at bay-hrousnt WITHIN
-.n o. the law by an Illness Nhisn
..-.i-ed the lower part OF ms 10y
"a ,t1aily seized by III.
-, a m~ysterous telephone mes
80 woman disclosed n er
sasI,s hIdirS place in a luxurious Ems
llsh country house. uy
n, ,ba criminal laughed cynieAiS
r-o,cusle arrived The woman
- at his direction ne
- ~ was about 20 die n ne
$780, 20 tell his story. he nao
-, mi. giri IN America, al Bar ~
- 80 saw that the dissipateo Fms
,,.hnnn- westridge. was uSihs 70
- her for her TIC cE"n
-. s.,se of decency was outrage
90 on with the story
CHATTER II.
--FIE invalid criminal hn's
self on his great han1S
tnrned the whole OF his bodS
toward me.
II tal YOU he shook th'
-. Of the chair in his great
che thing begun to get my so
father. a lawyer in the
dead. Sine had oniy the oia h
Grandmother q heard the talA o
,he wouaen) and the coin was ss,.n
searce. Your little Enshshmah pnas
ed in form. every point correct
he was Eoin' to get her.
II seen Il,
HIS voice became colo' p'S
rk. a metallic click
, a. -. -,y little gentleman saiu
III N.,es see II NO1 10
Right here Is where Aiioi -
in with a stack Of blues
1T cot up. folded my newspaper
,aor, I turn up and down the We
I'D as though I was trying ou'
-, -re leg. an then / limped down
- the fashionable church Just aSr"Ss
from the library.
" nsused and his voice changed
to its former note.
-, e. I had 10 have n little help
,hts tob. II had a big, loose end.
.r vent In and sat down In n pew
=. ga. aim and quiet and ! got risht
,ou-n 10 business. I didn't run IN
nv Of the prayerbook curtain ralseis
mt, h hin right up to the boss
Sow. look here. Governor. 1 ssia
.h,s n helpless lite girl got a pn
,~itb YOU. or Is Il bunk BeeAuH
I'm ns,n' TO cal you. n II the i'm
orr tarkers ! c putting out is on w
80, ,.o,,.ye got to come across WIN
~ goods. II there's nothing 10 II
,be government ought 70 shut en- u
IN n fraud erder-I'm agoin 10 carr
ons end OF this thing; get busy ut IN
other endr'
..-rA,, 7 went out.
..rhat night l went over 10 Sc
little Westridge.
He was surprised TO see me-dluh
understand 1T; he'd never met me Il
the social line.
He wns mighty formal. as you
saw. but he didn't throw any stutter
ing into Abb Al. 1 set down. just II
n the place belonged TO me. ana
waved a hand at him. / said TO my
self. You're a little piker: line UP anu
tax what's coming to you.
.sRut what I said out lou was this
"r-arrots has got a little bunch o
.t,ft that's goin' TO be wiped out
IL It amt covered
That was her ainohs
the youngsters because her oiue'olacA
ba,r in the sun had a heavenly cop
per CLINT"
He looked mixed up. what pre-
oisely. do you meant" he says.
81 didn't pay any attention to him.
7 want on tust as IL he hadn't said a
women's got no sense about
bnsiness-she's agoin' TO lose II"
"sLose what?' he says =.
Rotten the way they bring girls
,n' 1 saws, tho same as If he hadn't
spske. Here's thi steel bunch beat
ing the stuff DOWN; her broker wires
for somethin' to It, an she
sticks the telegram up against the
Iookin'-aaass so she'll remember TO
write to him neUt weel-can you
beat it?'
..I saw everything hat was goin
through him, same as IL you'd rolled
Il out on the picture-reel.
1.-THE 'old friend, no manners. darn
the difference stuff. had hooked him.
And there were two other hooks; this
girl had some property that he didn't
know of. and the friends of the fam
fly, like me. was a-comihg to him
about IT.
"Ha set up now pleasant as you
please.
".Ah-er, yes" he says; he hadn't
got the name 1 was playing under.
. IT beloved at him, an he mighty
near jumped.
".JohnsonF I said. .Alonzo John
son. Kansas City,
quite so. Mr.. Johnson he says
quick. same as you'd apologize. there
IS some business affair to discuss, l
fauncy?'
He fell right in with the line OF
dope mighty easy and comfortable.
Tou see IL was something like the
way they do things UP in his country.
The old uncle or II family
lawyer calls on you. when ma thinks
that things are pretty well under
stood with the young people. and gifts
down to figgerin'.
TT was near enough TO my line to
go across w1ths MIN. He knew that
the girl hadn't got any menfoik. so
an old friend of the family would fit
the form as a sort Of next-of-kln.
as the law-books say"
The big man linked his fingers to-
gether on h chairarm.