The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-05-28
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could clear lt-eaSlly clear II.
Jude. put your head closer. Lis
ten, Jude; I'm not sure about that.
I'm not sure She could clear it.
They've got nothing on me-noth7
ing to warrant a verdict. But If
you speak to her and she comes into
it now, they'll get-Oh, God KNOWS
what-on herr'
What can you mean?"
That, I'D be afraid of that,
jude"
"She didn't do it. Douglas. Oh,
surely-she didn't
Il WASH t there. No one knows,
Judith, ia be done if she were
brought into it after all this. It'd
be kind of mockery. You know
it would finish her. Wouldn't it?
When it seems to be getting me here
l just think what I'm saving her.
And you've no idea how easy it
makes things"
He began to smile. 1t made him
look SO very young. Only youth
would talk like this.
Judith smiled back. She said in
a crushed, quiet tone: ''Yes-it
would make it easier. 1 can under
stand that. For Judith thought:
81 could go in there and bear it for
you! Dear God, I could"
She wished now to escape; run
from this immense; dingy room that
was so big, yet whose walls pressed
about her; run from his dark in.
tent eyes.
"Then it's settled? Gee-what
peach you are! What you mean to
me, Jude. 1t is~hard on you down
there alone?"
Hard on me. And you in a place
like this!"s
I I'm getting used to it now. Can
eat with my fingers like any of
them"
"Your fingers? Eat with your
fngers?''
"Yes-we might cut our way out
if they gave us knives and forks"
She CHANGED to raise her head sud-
denly and she saw such an afflicted,
drained. .tormented look fleeing over
his face-the bitterness OF degrade
ton to a fine, laughing spirit.
She thought: Hes crushed! It's
crushed him. He won't get over
THISTLE won't be the same--never. :"
She glanced onward to the iron
walls: Which is your place, Doug
las?"
MY cell? Up there ION the top
tier-nice and warm-close to. the
ceiling"
~"And you haye to stay in there
from 8 O'Clock every afternoon"
"When I'm not in court"
"Who is your partner, Douglas?"
For the first time he laughed
the white, even teeth sparkling. "A
good egg, Jude. A second story man.
Has a lot Of yarns to tell. Well
have great things to talk Of some
day, Judy dear"
Suddenly she felt like crying. She
said with gulp: you're getting
awfully thin, Doug"
| l"Well-two meals a day, unless
Ee buy our own. l don't care
Yenough about it to bother. Queer
Jude, isn't it, for you and 1 to be
in a jam like this?"
You and l. AS though there
were only he and she in all the
world. The deep violet eyes filed
suddenly.
She looked UP at Understanding
He said gently: "Well-don't t,
Judy."
She laughed '1'm not going to-
But. Douglas, don't you let all this
hurt you-all this ugliness-Oh.
Doug-I wish / was in there and you
not
He bit his lips-keeping his head
lowered. Abruptly he said: Good
by. Judy-tharks, Juden
She wanted so to touch his hand
She walked out, her heart feel.
ing high and proud. They wouldn't
hurt him. They couldn't hurt him.
Too fine for them.
She felt like turning to the Of
ficer and saying with a laugh: Don't
any one think him guilty? Can
any one think one glorious as he
has done the slightest wrong?"
And driving homeward Judith was
appeased-hypnotized by his own
confidence. They had nothing on
him. Not a shred Of worthwhile evil
| dence.