Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-11-28
CHAPTER 4s

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Resale was free.
AS swiftly as the machinery OF
the law had moved to put her In
the Moyansing prison It had moved
ito give her liberty.
Through Rowdy's influence with
official Philadelphia it was only q
matter OF hours until she was re-
leased and had been spirited away
to a room at the Hotel Van Kirk.
where she might hide from curious
eyes and rest from her bitter ordeal.
But freedom was not sweet. Tim
had sacrificed himself for her and
always in her heart va the cruel
realization that 1t was her 0wn
wrong that had brought all this un-
happiness and grief. and perhaps
death TO the one she loved most In
the world-Roy.
They were true-all the things she
had been taught. That when you
do something wrong you pay for 1t.
The agony in her heart was as
great as any hell her mother hau
ever taught her to believe IN. And
yet, she hadn't really meant to be
q thief.
She lay on the bed in her room
with the afternoon papers, that
Rowdy had brought scattered
around her.
"RosALIE MARSH IN HID
ING"
~NEwsBoY. "A. MURDERED
MARITIME"
GIRL FREED IN HATE MUIR
DER"
Poor little Tim. There were pic
lures OF Tim signing his confess
sion. OF his father and mother and
his brothers and sisters One Of his
mother weeping and being taken TO
the police station for questioning.
Rosalie buried her face In ner
hands and wanted to die.
She would have to tell about Roy
soon. Only the warning she had
received in the prison kept her
from it. There was q slim chance
that Roy was alive. She must give
him time to escape from his cap
tors III she told her part Of the
story and they killed him she
would feel she had murdered him.
AT every little sound she jumped
and sat I'D, scarcely daring 70
breathe . Perhaps they would ina
out where she was and come and
kidnap her, too. But Rowdy had
assured her that no harm could
come .
She did not know that q city de-
tective had a connecting room,
locked on the other side-and that
she was being watched every min
ute. It was for her protection-as
well as for the fact that she was
needed as a witness and was real
IN not nearly Is free as she thought
She was. There was still q great
deal of skepticism in the police
department. Something, they were
certain. was wrong somewhere.
There was a great deal back OF the
murder that they were unable 70
fathom.
The Philadelphia Tribune was
shriekinr with exclusive stories on
the MARITIME murder .
Rovdy. still under cover. was
nhoning his stuff in TO the city
desk. shannon sat back. contens-
cd ard in clover. watching Things
hum. He had known Rowdy DOW
would start things popping.
If he had known how mucn
Rowdy knew that he hadn't told
the souelching OF the truth Of the
story would have broken his heart.
On the front page was a picture o.
Rowdy and the story Of how he had
uncovered the real murderer Of the
Bopps and Clarke detective IL.
promised greater surprises TO come.
The other reporters were mysti-
fled. Where had Rowdy been?
They hadn't even seen him around
town for a week. They did not
know that the tall. b~lack-haired
lawyer thev had seen frequently
around the Jail was Rowdy. Only
n few trustworthy officials had been
let in on the secret. They were
hirhly amused
Rowdy had kept his promise to
Rosalie He had told nothing that
she had told him. All that he had
written he had found out for him
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