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MOW DAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1914. PLATTSaiOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. pace r Villi. rogatively. "McCracken has detained er a lady, sir." he said feebly. "She has been searched, and we have found about $100 worth of laces on her." "Well?" Glider demanded impatient ly. Such affairs were too common In the store to make necessary this in trusion of the matter on him. "Why did you como to ine about if?"' 'Tin very sorry, sir, but I thought it wiser, sir, 1i er 1 bring the matter to your personal attention. The lady happens to be the wife of J. V. Gaskel!, the banker, you know." nm I f I I i SPEGSAL OFFER FQH QftE 61 Q NTH OMLY! EVESrJG JOURNAL FOR ft ear hy il (To be Continued) WITMIN I IE LAW Hi -: , V,-': -it sKS'Mt.! J V 3 1 Bd MARVIN DANA FROM THE PLAY OF BAYARD VEILLER w 4 2 X i ... v.; - XS: CopyriRiit. ;?13. by tte II. IC Fly compa: r utjj CHAPTER II. 0-.!y Three Years. WIIEX .it last the owner ct tb sTore entered the office his f ice showed extreme iirita tion. "What diil tliey do with the Turner frirl?" his sec-retary iuiiuireil in an elaborately ensual manner. Gilder did not look up from the heap of papers, but answered rather harsh ly. I don't know I couldn't wait." he said. He made a petulant pest u re as he went on. "I don't see why Judge Lawlor bothered me about the matter, lie is the one to impose sentence, not I. I am hours behind with my work now." Edward Gilder v.-as a bi.sr man phys-i'-nily. plainly the possessor of that abundant vital energy which is a prime requisite for achievement in the order insr of modern business concerns. Force was indeed the dominant qual ity oi! the man. Ilis tall figure was proportionately broad, and he was lu-avily Meshed. In fact the body was to ponderous. Terhaps. in that char acteristic mizht be found, a clew to the chief fault in his nature. Tor lie was ponderous, spiritually and men tally, as well r.s materially. The fact was displayed sucrpcstively in the face, which was too heavy with its promi nent jowls and appressive chin and rather bulbous nose. But there was ncthirs: flabby anywhere. It was with his accustomed bland ness of manner that he presently ac knowledged the greeting of Georpe Demarest, the chief of the le;ra! staff that looked after the firm's affairs. "Well. Demarest?" he inquired. "Judze Lawlor pave her three years." Demarest replied gravely. It was plain from his manner that he did not altogether approve. "Good!" Gilder exclaimed. "Take this, Sarah. And he continued, as the girl opened her notebook and oised the pencil. "Be sure to have Smithson post a copy of it conspicuously in all the giris" dressing rooms and in the reading room and in the lunchrooms and in the nssembly room." lie clear ed his throat ostentatiously and pro ceeded to the dictation of the notice: ".Mary Turner, formerly employed in this store, was today sentenced to pris on for three years, having been con victed for the theft of goods valued at over .4'0. The management wishes again to draw attention on the part of its employees to the fact that honesty isalwsrs.tjie best policy. Got that?" md thrust it toward the waiting law rer, who. however, shook his head iu refusal and continued to move about 2w room rather restlessly. "Three years three years! That jught to be a warning to the rest of :he girls." Gilder looked toward Dem irest for accpiiesceLce. "Most unusual case, in my estima tion." Demarest replied. "You see. the ;;rl keeps on declaring her innocence. Hi;, of course, is common enough in I way. But here It's different. The point is somehow she makes her pro testations more convincing than they usually do. They ring true, as it seems to me." "The1 stolen goods were found in her locker." Gilder declared in a tone of finality. "Some of them, I have been sriven "to understand, were actually in the icket of her coat." "Well," the attorney said, with a smile. "hat sort of thing makes good ?nough circumstantial evidence, and without circumstantial evidence there would be few convictions for crime. Vet as a lawyer I'm free to admit that circumstantial evidence alone is never quite safe ns proof of guilt. Natural ly he says some one else must have put tho stolen goods there. That is quite within the measure of possibili ty. That sort of thing has been done countless times." "And for what reason? It's too ab surd to think about." "In 'similar cases." the lawyer rn swerod, "those actaally guilty of the thefts have thus sought to throw sus picion on the innocent in order to nvoid it on themselves when the pur suit got too hot on their trail. Some times, too, such evidence has been manufactured merely to satisfy aspite against the one unjustly accused." "A court of justice has decreed her gui'.ty." "Nowadays," Deaaarest shot out. "we don't call them courts of justice; we call them courts of law." "Anyway." Gilder declared, becoming genial again, "it's out of our hands. There's nothing we can do now." "Why. as to that." the lawyer re plied, with a hint of hesitation. "I am tot so sure. Yon see. the fact of the matter is that, though I helped to prosecute the case. I am not a little bit proud of the verdict. I am not sure that, Marv Turner is j;niltv far from it, in fact! Anyhow, the girl wants to see yon, and I wish to urge you to grant her an interview." "What's the uso?" Gilder stormed. "I can't have hr crying all over the oiPce and begping for mercy," lie pro tested truculently. But a note of fear lay under the petulance. Dema rest's answer was given with assurance. "You are mistaken about that. Tho girl doesa't beg for mercy. In fact, that's the whole point of the matter. She demands justice strance as that may seem in a court of law and noth ing else. The truth is. she's a very unusual girl, a long way beyond the ordinary salesgirl, both in brains and in education." "The less reason, then, for her beisg a thief," Gilder grumbled ia his heav iest voice. "And perhaps the less reason for be lieving her to be a thief," the lawyer retorted suavely. lie paused for a moment, then went on. There was a tone of sincere determination in his voice. "Just before the judge imposed sentence he asked her if she had any thing to say. You know, it's just a usual form a thing that rarely means much of anything. But this case was different. let nie tell you. She sur prised us all by answering at once thnt the had. It's really a pity. Gilder, that you didn't wait. Why, that poor feirl made a fine" speech!' "Pooh, pooh!" came the querulous o! jection. "She seems to have hypnotiz ed you." Then, as a new thought aire to the magnate, he spoke with a trace of anxiety. There were always the re porters looking for space to fill with foolish vaporings. "Did she say anything against me or the store?" "Not a word." the lawyer replied gravely. "She merely told us how her father died when she was sixteen years old. She was compelled after that to earn her own living. Then she told how she had worked for you for five years steadily without there ever le ing a single thing agaiust her. She said. too. that she had never seen the things found in her locker. And she said more than thnt. She asked the Judge if he himself understood what it means for a girl to bo sentenced to prison for something she hadn't done. Somehow, Gilder, the way she talked had its effect on everybody in the court room. I know! It's my business to understand things like that. And what she said rang true. What she said and the way she said it take brains and courage. The ordinary croot has nei ther. So I had a suspicion .hat she might be speaking the truth. There was a little pause, while the lawyer moved back aud forth nervously: then he added. "I believe Lawlor would have suspended sentence if it hadn't been for your talk with him." "I simply did my duty," Gilder said. "You are aware that I did not seek any consultation with Judge Lawlor. He sent for me and asked me what I thought about the case whether I thought it would be right to let the girl go on a suspended sentence. I told him frankly that I In-lieved that an exam ple should le made of her for the sake of others who might be tempted to steal. Property has some rights. Dem arest, although it seems to be getting nowadays so that anylxvly is likely to deny it." Then the fretful, half alarm ed note Hounded in his voice again as he continued, "I can't understand why the girl wants to see me." "Why. she just said that if you would see her for ten minutes she would tell you how to stop the thefts In this store." "There." Gilder cried. "I knew It ! The girl wants to confess. Well, it's the first sign of decent feeling she's shown. I suppose it ought to' be encouraged. Probably there have been others mixed up in this." "Perhaps," Demarest admitted. "At least it can d no harm if you see her. I iiougtt vou.wQuid.bjejvUHng, jq I spoke to the district attorney, and he has given orders to bring her here for n few minutes on the way to the Grand Central station. They're taking her up to Burnsing. you know. I wish. Gild er, you would have a little talk with her." The lawyer abruptly went out of the office, leaving the owner of the store fuming. "Hello, dad!" Gilder sprang to his feet, his face suddenly grown younger, radiant. "Dick!" The big voice was softened to exquisite tenderness. As the eyes of the two met the boy rushed forward, and in the next mo ment the hands of father and son clasped Grmly. Presently Gilder spoke, with an effort toward harshness in his voice to mask how much he was shak en. But the tones rang more kindly than any he had used for many a day. tremulous with affection. "What brought you back?" he de manded. "Why, I just wanted to come back home." he said lightly. "And. for tho love of heaven, give Sadie 5?T. I bor rowed it from her to pay the taxL You see, dad, I'm broke." "Of course!" With the saying Ed ward Gilder roared Gargantuan laugh ter. In the burst of merriment his Tent feelings found their vent. He was still chuckling when he spoke, sage from much experience of ocean travel. "Poker on the ship. I suppose." "No, not that, though I did have a little run in at Monte Carlo. But it was the ship that finished me at that. You see. dad. they hired Captaiu Kidd and a bunch of pirates as stewards, and what they did to little Iiichard was something fierce. And yet, that wasn't the real trouble either. The fact is, I just naturally went broke. Not a hard thing to do on the other side." "Nor on this," the father interject ed .dryly. "Anyhow, it doesn't matter much," Dick replied, quite unabashed. "Tell me, dad, how goes it?" "Pretty well, pretty well, son. I'm glad to see you home again, my boy." There was a great tenderness in the usually rather cold gray eyes. "And I'm glad to be home. dad. to be" there was again that clearing of the throat, but lie finished bravely "with you." The father avoided a threatening display of emotion by an abrupt change of subject to the trite. "Have a good time?"' he inquired casually. "The time of my young life. I tell you. dad. it's a fact that I did almost break tho bank at Monte Carlo. I'd have done It sure if only my money had held out." 'It seems to me that I've heard some thing of the sort before." was Gilder's causti't comment. But his smile was still wholly sympathetic. He took a curious vicarious delight in the esca pades of his sou, probably because he himself had committed no follies in his callow days. "Why didn't you cable me?" he asked, puzzled at such re straint on the part of his sou. "Because it gave me a capital ex cuse for coming home." "You clear out of here, boy!" Gilder commanded brusquely. "I'm a work ing man. But here, wait a minute," he added. He brought forth from a pocket a ueat sheaf of banknotes, which he held out. "There's carfare for you," he said, with a chuckle. "And now clear out. I'll see you at dinner." "You can always get rid of me on the same terms." Dick remarked slyly. In-the doorway he turned with a final speech, which was uttered in splendid disregard for the packet of money he had just received. "Oh, dad. please don't forget to give Sudie that $." 1 borrowed from her for the taxi." ' The owner of tho store returned to Lis labors with a new zest, for the meeting with his son had put hini in high spirits. Perhaps it might have been better for Mary Turner had she come to him just then, while he Mas yet in this softened mood, p.ut fate had ordained that other events should restore him to his usual harder self before their interview. Smithson en tered with an expression of discom fiture on his rather vacuous coun tenance. He walked almost nimbly to the desk and spoke with evident dis tress as his employer looked up inter MURRAY Miss Pearl Dugay spent Sun day willi home folk. (luy Stokes was ji IMatlsinoulh visitor Sunday evtning. Frank Campbell was doing the butchering; act Wednesday. l.b'yd Lewis was a business visitor in Union Tuesday. Charles Reed was delivering cira to It. It. A'iekels Monday. F. L. Ilhoden was transacting business in Union Wednesday. Mrs. A. J. Slokcs spent Sunday wilh Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Copen hnver. Lee Nickels and Harry Cream er attended the sale at Nchawka Tuesday. Charles Wolfe and C'eorge Shrader were visiting friends in Union Friday. Mrs. F. L. Ilhoden returned last week from - Asmoml, . Neb., where she made an extended visit with Miss Maggie o'Hrien. Miss Ft hi M. Nickels returned home Friday, after an extended isit wilh relalhcs ji arioiis points in northern Nebraska. Pleasant Hill School. The ninth grade has begun tu. lying poetry. Fva P.ailcy was winner in the spelling contest Friday. Miss Mary Yolk of I.oiiisM'He was a visitor at Pleasant Hill on Thursday afternoon. Tho third grade has finished their readers and will take up Searson Martin's .-Indies in reading. Harry Noel and Curli Patrick are on the sick list Fil. We auain hope to see them in school soon. The niuih grade will take bookkeeping during (be second semester, instead of physical geography. Colegate tv. Co. presented each student with a trial tube of den ial cream and pledge cards to care for their teeth. Those receiving the highest average in the last rpiarlerly ex aminations were: Vera Yroman. ninth grade; ib.y Fitzpalrirk. eighth grade; Led a Fifpafrick. sixth grade; Margaret Feck, third grade, and Ilarley Puis, primary class. i The following were those hav ing a perfect, attendance during the third week of this month: Janet Young. Morris P.ailoy. Dewey Uoedecker. Fva Uailey, Roy Fitzpatrick. Fdward Failey. Lola Fitzpatrick. Harry Puis, Margaret Beck. Harry Noel, liar ley Puis and Curtis Fitzpatrick. Buy your stationery at the Journal office. You've a Right to Know Maker's Name Congress was recently asked to pass a law providing for the manufacturer's name and address on every article sold in interstate commerce. Such a law should be passed. The buyer has a right to know the maker's name. Next time he will know whether he wants an article from that maker or not. 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His l.rolio-r. .Joe, ami liis niolher ami siller from llumhol.lt, ".. are willi him at present. I- v LOUISVILLE. Courier. . . . . . . . V i . -...." i ?.Iiss Alice Twiss "'i.l Vii-il Il i.l.Ion visile.l Ihe lalter' -i-t. i Mrs. T.ora Ike, al I. a I'l it!" ,,. r Sumlay. Mrs. John Kalih r is in a h"--pital al Omaha, where -lie is un- ei' Irealinenl for hear! ami nervous tlolihle. ...Mr. ami Mrs. C. A. Ricaey ami two ilaunhler-. Mi.--es Kalherine ami l'auline. nioloi-e.l l. omalia Saturday for a ln"s Mi-s ll-tlier liart of Oie-!:ai,i. who is allemlin' l:isiu --; ( "Ui -'e in Omaha, isi;eil oi-r Sumla willi licr aunt. Mi-s. W. 1'. !i-r-. We are la.l l ep.i;t tlli',1 "I'ail" r.arriner ha- rei i ivei e.I frimi a sctie allack of a-!hmn. whic'a kepi him lf iifa.-l a!i of Jasl wi'rk. A hahy pill came in l.;i-ii'. n !!ie home ,,f Mr. am! Mr-. C. ss on Thur.-.lay. .lanuarx T!ie following .lay the lilll" - a" j.-.-e.i away. jv W. 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