ALLIANCE HERALD, ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA, OCTOBER SO, 1019
TAKING IT Al.L(
"Before I agree to undertake your
defense," said the eminent criminal
lawyer, "you will have to tell me the
whole truth. Did you embezxle the
$100,000 you are accused of having
taken?"
"Yes, Blr," replied the accused
man. "I'll not attempt to conceal
the fact from you. I stole every
cent of It."
"How much of It have you still?"
"It's all gone but about a couple
of dollars."
"Young man," said the eminent
lawyer, buttoning his coat about him
and putting on his gloves, "you'd
better plead guilty ana throw your
self on the mercy of the court."
"I'll do it if you say so, sir. What
are you going to charge me for the
advice?"
"Two dollars?"
tiik i:ti:hxal fkmimnk
"How old are you. little girl?"
said the streetcar conductor genially
"Now see here," said the little girl
"I'vx paying full fare, so It Isn't nec
essary for you to ask any Imperti
nent questions."
"I'll buy them If you'll lend me
your coupons.! said Mike, "and who
ever Ims the best dream tonight can
cook them for himself tomorrow."
When they awoke in the morning
Pal related his dream.
"I dreamt that angels carried me
up to heaven."
"You're ripht," said Mike, "I saw
HAVF.D TI1H ADMISSION MONET
Ituth came home from her flrtt
visit to Sunday school, carrying a
small sack of candy.
"Why, Ruth, where did you get
the candy?" asked the family, wins
had gathered to hear her experience
Ruth looked up In surprise.
"I boucht It with the nickel yotl
gave me," she said; "the minister
met nie at the door and got me is
for nothing."
In Dubious i
Garb
By RALPH HAMILTON
Tat and' Mike were pausing a
butcher's shop where there was a
pair of chickens for sale.
; you going up, and thought you would
j nver come back, to I got up, cooked
j ihe chickens and ate them."
(Coprrlcht, Hit. kr th. W.rt.r N.
paper Vales.)
"Dear, denrP mourned and pitied
Alvln Prince, and stood looking down
at a human form lying prone upon the
straw-Uttered floor of an abandoned
helter shed at a remote corner of his
arm.
He was a genial old soul, this pleas-nt-faced,
kind-hearted deacon, select
man and the prop and stay of sterling
uprightness and dignity In the com
inunlty. He had been passing the shed,
when he fancied that a groan proceed
jed from within. lie stepped across
the threshold and, startled and puz
'tied, gazed down at the recumbent fig-
jure. It wa9 that of a young man with
a refined cast of features, his eyes
closed In sleep. Two further discov
eries of the farmer brought a serious
expression to his face. One hand was
abrased and bleeding, and a cnt In the
nead showed a second recent Injury.
! "A convict an escaped convict," so
liloquized Prince. "Poor fellow 1 And
jtie's badly hurt. What Is my duty In
the case? He looks likely, and per
haps a mother, a sister Is worrying
about him. There Isn't anything of
Ithe criminal In that face. Shall I pro
tect him?"
. The decision was quickly made.
Prince proceeded across the farm, got
to the house, made up a bundle and,
hitching up a horse to the old family
carryall, started back the route he
had come.
' j "Mother and Zelda away," he solilo
quized, "and I don't see Zeph anywhere
around. That Just suits me."
Zeph .Barnes was the handy man
about the farm. At that moment he
was making bis way. past the old shed.
Ills course Hps puckered as he dis
covered Its Inmate. He scented a mys
tery as he saw Prince returning. He
wondered If there was any reward of
fered for the apprehension of con
victs and, climbing to the shallow loft
In the structure, waited for develop
ments. These materialized wlthi'the arrival
of Prince. The latter proceeded to dis
robe the stranger. He made a bundle
of the Incriminating convict garb and
thrust It Into an old manger, attired
him In a suit of his own, lifted him
Into the wagon and drove to the house.
He got. his Involuntary guest to bed,
applied lotions to his wounds, and won
dered what his story would be. When
consciousness was restored, Alvln
Prince gently Inquired If the Injuries
were painful.
' "I think only a stumbling fall," re
piled bis guest. "Let me see, I was
Where was I? What was, I doing?
I'm all dazed. My name Is Wilbur
Thome. I have a home, but I left
It for wandering a long time ago. I've
kept going with all kinds of Jobs. You
must be a pretty kind sort of a man
to take In a stranger this way."
"Oh, that la all right," declared
Prince lightly, and felt a certain dell-,
cacy about referring to his convict sus
picions. Mrs. Prince and her daughter Zelda
came home two days later from a
week's visit to a relative, to find the
Interesting-looking stranger Insisting
cpon doing some light work about the
farm. They were so used to the chari
table Impulses of the husband and fa
ther, that they did not question him
when he told them that he was taking
oare of bis visitor until he got on his
feet again.
His frank, 'engaging ways won the
favorable opinion of Zelda and her
mother, and as the weeks drifted on
Wilbur Thorne became so useful and
so happy that Prince had not the heart
to either question him or turn him
away.
He had not noticed that a bond of
mutual liking was being cemented be
tween the two young people, but Zeph
Barnes, himself secretly In love with
Zelda, though the latter detested him,
was witness to an Interview between
Thorne and herself when the latter
confessed his deep affection for the
farmer's daughter. Just before dusk
that evening, Just as the family were
seated on the lawn. Mr. Prince read
ing, Mrs. Prince at her knitting and
Zelda and Thorne looking over a pic
torial magazine, there appeared Zeph
Barnes and a man whom the farmer at
once recognized as the town marshal.
"There's the man," spoke Zeph,
pointing to Thorne. "ne'e an escaped
convict, and here" and he tore open
a bundle under bis arm. revealing the
convict's garb In which Prince bad
first seen Thorne.
"Why! yon give me a link In the
past always a mystery to me," exclaim
ed Thorne abruptly, arising to his feet
with an animated expression on his
face. "I wore that suit the day I
got hurt. Where did you ever get It,
Zeph? You see. Mr. Prince, my last
Job was playing the convict for some
movie people over beyond the village.
I took a casual stroll In It while wait
ing for my part In the scenario, had
a bad fall, and and I guess you can
tell how you found me."
Zeph drew back crestfallen. The
marshal, however. Insisted on some
close questioning, and Wilbur Thorne
was forced to tell that be was the son
of a wealthy man with whom he had
quarreled to become a wanderer. A
repentant truant, now that he bad won
Zelda's love, he was willing to ask pa
rental forgiveness, and a week later
Alvln Prince was glad to accept WU.
bur Thorne as his soo-ln-Iaw.
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