The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-07-30

the Indictment was being spread
through the streets; but what could
he say? So. having no professional
calls to make this afternoon, he
took recourse to the resort of an idle
physician, and absorbed himself with
watching others work at clinic.
Later when Bertram stepped from
the hospital doors into the lamp-lit
dusk of the early evening a shock
awaited him. New headlines screamed
from the newspapers. Kitty Hewitt !
they proclaimed. Something had hap
pened during the afternoon while he
had been shut up In the clinic rooms,
something which surpassed the sensa-
tion of the formal indictment of Pei.
len: something involving the girl her
self, who was the actual heart of the
case. Kitty Hewitt arrested! That
was it.
But she was not being held without
bond, as was Pellen, who had fired
the shot The judge who had ordered
her held, had fixed her bail at ten
thousand dollars. "As no one offered
bond. she was taken to the jail" That
was what the paper said.
He drove at once through the dark
streets to the jail. 1t was not the
hour for visitors. but his situation
and condition were exceptional, and
he was let in. He had to see for
himself that Kitty Hewitt actually
was in jail and from the corridor
outside the women's section he caught
glimpse of her About forty women
were grouped about small tables with
in a barred and steel-bound enclosure
known as the women's "bull pen."
AT the fourth table behind the bars
through which Bertram Darand
stared, patch of lovely color showed.
He caught his breath. 1t was corn
color hair-Kitty Hewitts hair!
The guard who had piloted Bertram
discovered her at once. There's your
girl" he said, jerking his thumb to-
ward her table.
He could see her eyes now; she
gazed at him steadlly-until he low
cred his head. 1t seemed to him not
so much her shame as his that she
sat there.
AS he followed the guard away,
barely noticing where he was led, he
found himself again stirred by the
question which so many others asked
this morning but which no one yet
had answered: "Who was this girl7
He drove first to the Fraleys'. Ber-
tram knew that when she was taken
away by the police the Fraleys had
forsaken her; but he thought 1t pos
sible that they did not fully under
stand what ii meant for a girl to be
in Jail SO he went to them and told
them
They were very sorry; they felt ex-
tremely distressed. indeed. for she
had seemed such a lovely girl; hut
ten thousand dollars was ten thousand
dollars. and ii could nat be offered to
penniless Doctor parand for the free
dom Of a girl whom nobody knew.
There WAS chill fnality in their
fnne: il was no use arguing. Ber
tram hurried on to the home of the
friend next upon his list
Halt an hour later he was hasten
ing ~ the door of the third BY ten
O'Clock he had ceased to try to raise
ten thousand dollars in one sum- he
begged for half of it; for quarter
of ii then for tenth of. II only.
Al one O'Clock IN HE morning, when
even the mansions of the drive and
Aston street had become dark Ber
train turned YEARLY toward his bofz,d1f'
ing-house room With experience and
much bitter learning for his nights
begging. He had learned that the
friends Of his father and the sons OF
the friends of his grandfather had
maintained their fortunes through the
preservation of Il marvelousiy rigid
attitude toward sums such as ten
thousand dollars or even five or one,
which required them to see clearly
the return to themselves before risk
ing any such sum.
He went to bed but did not sleep;
and as he lay, reviewing bitterly his
beggings of this night, he thought Of
Kjtfy How1tt ~, a cn< q, Onn ~ thOco