The Washington times., 1930-10-03
Oriental Brings Convicted
Bride a Ray of Hope
CHAPTER 50

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heart. The happiness that had
seemed hers for a few minutes
blew away in the still dark
watches. She must have been
crazy to feel happy. ON the
day she was found guilty Of
murder. -.
Mr.. Allan thought there
would be another trial. He
said he was sure Of it. But he
had been sure she'd be acquit-
ted in the first trial. and she
wasn't. You have to learn not
to depend on people. :. not to
depend on anybody but Gordon
and Ma.
And Ma was sick. Sick in
bed, with a trained nurse. :.
broken down by the worry
and the shock of the verdict. ).
Gordon. Gordon was more
than half sick. He looked 50
tired. so tired.
Shed have to stop dragging
them down with her. Ma. :.
Ma would keep on, nothing
could stop her. She was lost.
Lost because Cathie was her
child, and she was an old-fash-
toned, loving mother. But
there might be some way Of
saving Gordon.
Another Girl
Maybe the blind aunt could
think Of a way. She could ask
her to call at the jail. The
blind aunt was so wise. Shed
know some way to persuade
Gordon to forget. get another
girl. You shouldn't let a man
ruin his life for you. even If he
does love you. and you love
him. :.
Maybe If he'd get interested in
another. girl. that Mrs. Will
loughby No, not Mrs. Will
1oughby. she's too cold and
calculating. Shed never really
make him happy. And not a
girl like Marsha Darrow either.
She has such q mean, hard
streak. 1t would have to be
! someone else. someone who
would really understand and ap-
preciate him. The blind aunt
would think Of someone, prob
ably.
=. And at the thought Of the nice
girl Miss Maude Moore would
find for him, Cathie pressed her
face into the pillow and cried
quietly, so that no one would
hear. She didn't want to dis
tllrb the other wome-:. In the Jail.
4 X =
Toward, morning she awoke.
Lay awake, listening strain
ing every nerve to hear the
~ strange night noises. Nothing
to be afraid Of, of course.
You're surely safe in a jail!...
Funny. footsteps sounding way
off somewhere. feet ringing
on cement floors. .ghostly
sounding, those footsteps. Was
somebody coming? No, only
some jailer making the rounds
Nothing to be afraid Of.
locked in cell! A cell. that
how many wretched women
have been locked in? Maybe
they lay awake night, afraid,
. too. ali those other women
who were once in this cell.
Cell Companions
That's a mleer noise
scratchy. &. Mice? What are
those other things. cock
reaches! Maybe they have
them in San Quentin. it's too
clean and modern here to have
anything like that. its just
imagination, thinking you hear
scratching noises. mo, it isn't
>. something is scratching. :.
oh, it it is!
No, it's nothing. but that
wailing down the corridor is
awful. wonder what's the mat
ter? Why don't they do some
thing for that woman? Maybe
she's sick. That's the elevator
stopping. no, it went on.
=. This is like the nights in the
Farnsworth house. hide eous
nights they were. Queer about
- houses. some make you feel
. all peaceful and safe, and 9th.
ers. Others don't.
- In the house on Clara Street
= the night noises were all nice
- ones. &C ON orting. human
sounding ones. Through the
partition you could hear the
springs squeak as Ma turned
= over in bed. you could listen
: and hear little Jeans soft, reg.
! Jllar breathing. And If there
was a scratching at your win
dow you could call, very, very
: softly, Here, kitty, come puss!"
and the Hennessys' black Gene
2 We've would leap on the sill and
:, sit there, purring loudly, wait
= ing to be invited to come in
: and curl up on the quilt beside
you.
= Even jail is better than the
e house on Presidio Terrace -.
Mr.. Farnsworth's house. 90.
Dreary Prison
You never heard any com.
e forting, human noises there.
Sometimes it was silent as q
$. tomb -. not even a sound
:. from the street -. Never a
! frog or a cricket in the garden
-. never a familiar, comfort
able sound -. just silence and
the creaking, sighing noises
there were the voices of the
house, that came out of the
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