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y SAW the sketch at Pantages
i that night.


i that night.
1t wasn't half bad-it was en-
tirely so. Bright seemed like an
elongated clown trying to do a
cowboy part.
He and the girl got into
scrape of some sort-I forgot the
exact details-and were hand
cuffed together by the sheriff.
This officer was a supernumerary'
impressed from the stage hands,
and acted his part about as Wen
as a burro might be expected to
play a piano. The offenders were
sbout to be taken off to jail
VIXEN a solution of their predica-
naent was tearfully poured out
10 the sheriff by the Ngirl. The
sheriff. she pleaded, was
man, a ''big. breezy Westener;
she understood that his duties in
that wild section included the
authority to perform marriage
ceremonies. If he would forget
his police functions for the mo-
ment and exercise those OF a
magistrate, she and "AP could
be married on the spot, ana the
charges against them were OF
such nature that no arrest was
vvarranted If they were legally
man and wife.
The sheriff "fell'' for the sob
stuff. brushed imaginary BRINE
from his fearless eyes, and mar
ried them. still handcuffed to-
rether. followed by a remark
from the nascent groom to the
effect that he would ever be true
as stcel-as true as these gives
that now bind u.s." He raised MS
arm IN dramatic fervor. and near
" broke poor Ruth's wrist.
saw her vince. Then came a
Glow curtain. with two encores.
The sketch took well.
The following Sunday morning
Ruth departed for their next stop
ping place. off for a ten weeks
trip around the circuit.
CHAPTER XXI.
Late that fall. in 1914, my
friend Thomas Mott Osborne was
appointed warden Of Sing. Sing
Prison by Governor Glynn of New
York. Glynn had but few
weeks left to serve as Governor.
his successor. Charles s. Whit
man. having already been elected
TO take office with the coming of
the new year.
Politics in New York State had
been in turmoil. due to the I'M
parchment of Governor Sulzer.
whose election from the Gov srn-
orsl1ip was held by many 10 have
been a 'high-handed" proceeding.
At any rate. Sulzer was later re-
turned to the legislature by his
New York City constituents.
when read that Osborne had
accepted the Sing Sing post I
A0G" 1lE Hclu a AA1Ad INV ~ AOOs
wardens OF Sing Sing had from
time immemcrial failed to weather
the treacherous political storms
that persistently broke over that
wretched tomb Of ''the living
dead
But when a few days later I
received a wire from Osborne ask
ing me to join him as his private
secretary my views underwent a
change. 1 wanted TO go because
wanted to help fight the ring,
and I knew my friend would need
loyal assistants. knew he was
In for fight: it could not be
otherwise, with his new ideas as
to how prisons should be run. and
facing a bunch of politicians who
had always regarded Sing Sing as
their own spoils. They would in
trfgue against an Outsider" day
and night.
Responsibility.
I was at Woodhills Ranch,
where I had gone to sober UP
after another bad spree when
this offer came to me, and that
night after Older had returned
from San Francisco 1 took the
matter up with him and asked
his advice.
Older remained silent a long
time until l began to think he
had not heard what / said. When
he did speak his words wounded
me. =
What's the use?" he asked,
almost as if speaking to himself
TO go back there into a RESPONSE