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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1914 PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, PAGE 5. WITHIN THE LAW By MARVIN DANA FROM THE PLAY OF BAYARD VE5LLER Copyright, 123. Jay the It K. Fly company. CHAPTER VIII. The Thief. MAHY was in joyous spirits aft er her victorious matching of trains against a lawytr of hiuh standing in bis profes sion when sbe had entered the tele phone booth, w hich had been installed in an extra closet of her bedroom for the sake of greater privacy on occa sion. During her absence from the drawing room Garson a?:iin came into the apartment seeking her. On being told by Aggie as to Mary's where abouts he sat down to await her re turn, listening without much interest to the chatter of the adventuress. The maid appeared and said: "Thcre3 girl wants to see Miss Turner." 'She say it's important. I guess the- poor tiling's in hard luck from the look of ter." the kindly Fannie added. "Oh, then, she'll be welcome, of course!" Aggie declared, and Garsou nodded in acquiescence. "Tell her to come in and wait. Fannie. Miss Turn er will be here right away." She turn ed to Garson as the 'maid left the rwm. "Mary sure is an easy boob," flie remarked cheerfully. I51ess her t-oft heart!" A minute later a girl perhaps twen ty years of age stepped just within the doorway and stood there with eyes downcast after one swift, furtive glance about her. Her whole appear ance was that of dejection. Her soil ed black gown, the cringing posture, the pallor of her face, proclaimed the abject misery of her state. "Are you Miss Turner?" she asked in a voice broken by uervcus dismay. "I'eally. I am very sorry." Aggie re plied primly, "but I am only her cou sin. Miss Agnes Lynch. But Miss Turner is likely to be back any min ute now." "Can I wait?" came the timid ques tion. "Certainly," Aggie answered hospi tably. "Please sit down." As the girl obediently sank down on the nearest chair Garsoa addressed her sharply, so that the visitor started uneasily at the unexpected sound. "You don't know Miss Turner?" "No." came the faint reply. "Then, what do you want to see her about?" "She or.ee helped a girl friend of mine, and I thought I thought" "You thought she might help you." Garson interrupted. "You have been in stir prison, 1 mean." Aggie hastily corrected the lapse Into underworld slang. Came a distressed muttering of as sent from the girl. The conversation was put to an end by the entrance of Mary, who stopped short on seeing the limp figure hud dled in tie chair. "A visitor, Agnes?" she inquired. At the sound of her voice the girl looked up and spoke with some degree of energy. "You're Miss Turner?" she question ed. "Yes," Mary said. Tier words rang kindly ard she smiled encouragement. A gasp burst from the white lips of th lr. and she cowered as one strick en physically. "Mary Turner! Oh. my God! I" She hid her face within her arms and sat bent until her head rested on her knees in an abasement of misery. Vaguely startled by the hysterical outburst from the girl. Mary's immedi ate thought was that here was a piti ful instance of one suffering from star vation. "Joe." she directed rapidly, "have Fannie bring a glass of milk with an egg and a little brandy in it. right away." The girl n tlje chair was shaking soundlessly under the stress of her emotions. A few disjointed phrases fell from her quivering lips. "I didn't know oh. I couldn't!" "Don't try to talk just now," Mary warned, reassuringly. "Walt until you've had something to eat." Aggie, who had observed develop ments closely, now lifted her voice in tardy lamentations over her own stu pidity. "Why. the poor gawk's nungry!" she exclaimed. "And I never got the dope on her. Ain't I the simp!" The girl regained a degree of self control and showed something of for lorn dignity. "Yes." she said dully. "I'm starving." Mary regarded the afflicted creature with that sympathy born only of ex perience. "Yes," she said softly. "I under stand." Then she spoke to Aggie. "Take her to my room and let her rest there for awhile. Have her drink the egg and milk slowly and then lie down for a few minutes anyhow." Half an hour afterward Aggie re ported with her charge, who. though still shambling of gait and steeping, showed by some faint color in her face mid an increased steadiaessof bearing that the food had already strengthened her much. "She would come." Aggie explained. "I thought she ought to rest for awhile longer any bow." "I'm all right, I tell you." came the querulous protest. "Are you quite sure?" Mary said to the girl. "Then tell us all about It this trouble of yours, you know. What is your name?" "Helen Morris." "I don't have to ask if you have been in rrisoc. Your face shows it." "I I came out three months ago." "And you'd made up your mind to go straight?" "Yes." The word was n whisper. "You were going to do what the chaplain had told 3'ou." Mary went on "You were going to start all over again, weren't you?" The bent head of the girl bent lower in assent. "It doesn't work very well, does it?" "Xo: I'm whipped." Mary's manner changed. She spoke cheerfully for the first time. "Well, then, how would you like to work with us?" "You you mean that" "Our kind of work pays well when you know how. Look at us. Suppose I should stake you for the present and put you in with a good crowd. All you would have to do would be to an swer advertisements for servant girls. I will see that yui have the best of references. Then, when you get in with the light people you will open the front door some night and let In the gang. Of course you will make a get away when they do and get your bit as wall. There flashed still another of the swift, sly glances, and the lips of the girl parted as if she would speak. But she did not; only her head sagged even lower on her breast and the shrunken form grew yet more shrunken. "It doesn't suit you? Good! I was in hopes it wouldn't So. here's anoth er plan. Suppose you could go west some place where you would have a fair chance, with money enough so you could live like a human being till you got a start?" There came a tensing of the relaxed form, and the head lifted a little, so that the girl could look at her ques tioner. "I will give you that chance," Mary said simply, "if you really want it." The wretched girl sat suddenly erect, and her words came eagerly. "Oh, I do!" And now her hungry gaze remaiued fast on the face of the woman who offered her salvation. "Then I have Just one thing to say to you Crst. If you are going to live straight start straight, and then go through with it. Do you know what that means?" "You mean keep straight all the time?', The girl spoke with a force drawn from the other's strength. "I mean more than that. I mean forget that you were ever in prison. I don't know what you have done 1 don't think I care. But whatever it was, you have paid for it a pretty big price too." "I have. I have!" The thin voice broke, wailing. "Well, then," Mary went on. "just begin all over again, and ue sure you stand up for your rights. Dou't let them make yoa pay a second time. Go where no one knows you, and don't tell the first people who are kind to j"ou that you have been crooked. If they think you are straight, why, be it. Then nobody will have any right to complain. Will you promise me this?" "Yes, I promise," came the answer, very gravely, quickened with hope. "Good!" Mary exclaimed, with a smiie of approval. "Wait a minute," she added and left the room. "Huh! Fretty soft for some people," Aggie remarked to Garson. with a sniff. Mary returned soon. In her hand she carried a roll of bills. She went to the girl and held out the money. j "Take this. It will pay your fare west and keep you quite awhile If you are careful." But. without warning, a revulsion seized on the girl. She shrank again and turned her bead away as her body trembled. "I can't take it!" she exclaimed. "I I can't! I can't!" "Didn't you come here for help?" "Yes," was the faltering reply, "but but I didn't know it was you!" "Then you have met me before?" Mary said quietly. "So, no!" The girl's voice rose shrill. Aggie spoke her miud with frank ness. "She's lyiug." Garson agreed. His yes was spoken in a tone of complete certainty. That Mary, too. was of their opinion was shown in her next words. "So you have met me before? Where?" The girl unwittingly made confe3 sion in her halting words. "I can't tell you." There was de spair in her voice. "You must". The girl only crouched lower. "I can't!" she cried again, panting as if In exhaustion. "Why can't you?" "Because because" The girl could not go on. "What were you sent up for?" "For stealing." "Stealing what?" "Goods." "Where frm?" "The Emporium. In a flash of intuition the whole truth was revealed to the woman who stood looking down at the cowering creature before her. j "The Kaiporiuin!" she repeated. There was a tragedy in", the single word. "Then you are the o:ie wlin" The..accujaUou was cut short by the I girl's shriek. "I am not! I am not. I tell you!" For a moment Mary lost her poise. Fler voice rose in a Rare of rage. "You are! You are!" ' ' The craven spirit of the girl cou'd struggle no more. She could only sii iu a huddled, shaking heap of dread. Mary soon mastered her to such an extent that when she spoke again, as if in self communion, her words came quietly, yet with overtones of a su prerne woe. "She did it!" Then after a little she adorressed the girl with a certain won dering before this mystery of horror "Why did you throw the biauie on me?" The girl made several efforts before her mumbling became intelligible, and then her speech was gasping, broken with fear. "I found out they were watching me. and 1 was afraid they would catch me. So I took them and ran into the cloak room and put them in a locker that wasn't close to mine and some in the pocket of a coat that was hanging there. God knows I didn't know whose it was. I just put them there I was frightened" "But they caught you later. Why didn't you tell then?" "I was afraid, came the answer from the shuddering girl. "I told them It wan the first time I had taken any thing, and they let me off with a year." "You cried and lied, and they let you off with a year. I wouldn't cry. I told the truth and" Mary's voice broke in a tearless sob. The color had gone out of her fr.ee. and she stood rigid. looking down at the girl whose crime had ruined her life with an ex pression of Infinite loathing In her eyes. Aggie took advantage of the pause, ner voice was acid "Some people are sneaks just sneaks!" Somehow the speech was welcome to the girl, gave her a touch of cour age sufficient for cowardly protesta tions. It was more like the abuse that was famlliir to her. A gush of tears came. "I'll never forgive myself, never!" she moaned. "Oh, yes, yon will," Mary said malevolently. "People forgive them selves pretty easily. Stop crying. No body Is going to hurt you." She thrust the money again toward the girl and crowded It into the half reluctant, half greedy hand. "Take it, and get out." The contempt In her voice rang still sharper. "Go, before I change my mind!" The girl needed no second bidding. With the money still clutched in her hand she went forth swiftly, stumbling a little in her haste, fearful lest at the last moment the woman she had so wronged should change in mood and take back the money. Freed from the miasma of that pres ence, Mary remaiued motionless for a long minute, then sighed from her tor tured heart. "A girl I didn't know." she said be wilderedly, "perhaps had never speken to who smashed my life like that! Oh, if it wasn't so awful it would be funny! It would be funny!" (To be Continued) Methodist Minister Recommends Chamberlain's Cought Remedy. Rev. James A. Lewi., Milaca, Minn., writes: "Chamberlain's! Cough Kemedy has been a needed and welcome guest in our home for a number of years. I highly recommend it to my fellows as being; a medicine worthy of trial in cases of colds, eougns and croSp." dive Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a trial and we are confident you will find it verv ef fectual and continue to use it as occasion requires for years to come, as many others have done. For sale by all dealers. What Hustling Did. Manager SShlaes says he has secured a contract from the man agement of "The Deep Purple." The date will be announced later on. ii win i a inontn or so at least. Energy of this kind, if pursued, will bring to our town a high standard of companies. THE THIRD DEGREE is coming soon, a 5-part photo play masterpiece, at the ('.rand. Watch paper for further an nouncements. 2-18-3td-2tw FREE TO FARMERS By special arrangement the Ratckin Seed House of Shenan doah, Iowa, will mail a copy of their Dig 1911 Illustrated Seed Book, and a sample of their fam ous "Diamond Joe s Big Ii lie seed corn that has a record of over 200 bushels per acre, free to every reader of this paper who may be interested in the crops they plant. This book is a com plete compendium of farming and farm and garden seeds. It tells how to grow big crops and all about best varieties of seed corn .for your locality; also Seed Oats, Wheat, Barley. Speltz, Grasses, Clovers, Alfalfa, Pasture and Fawn Mixtures, Seed Potatoes and all other farm and garden seeds. Tin's seed book is worth dollars to all in want of seeds, of any sort. It's free to all our readers. Write for it and. men tion this paper.. The address is RATEKIN'S SEED HOUSE, Shenandoah, Iowa. Box 227. If PLATTSMOUTH FORTY YEARS AGO Items of Interest to Our Reader Ulsanctl from the Newspaper Files ol Many Years Ago. John Fitzgerald, esq., has re turned home again. Mr. Pierce, our quaint friend of pleasant memory, remembered the Herald on Thanksgiving day. Mother Flaherty has bought a new clock, the handsomest one Frank Carruth had in his outfit. Frank While has moved into his own cottage by the avenue, and had a surprising party there. Doc. Jones and six other can didates for sheriff all went down to Nebraska City to the district convention. A sister of Capt. Bennett died at Atchison, Kansas, mi the L'oth inst., and the captain lias gone to at I end the funeral. Frank Carruth has just re turned from a fortnight's trip east. lie is content, to remain at Plaltsmouth for awhile yet. (Jen. F. V.. Cunningham has been down in Kansas to see his daddy. He hurried home to get some turkey, loo. Now and then out- Weeping Water friends drop in to see Plaltsmouth once more. A. P. Miller of Woepir.sr Water returned from the east, through Piatt smooth, on Tuesday la-d. Mr. Miller has been east t at tend the funeral of a hived broth er, we believe. Dr. G. Ilildebrand of Pacifi" City, Iowa, called at the Herald otlice Saturday. He reports pros pects good around his neighbor hood. Uncle Peter Hugu-s, an old time hardware man of Omaha, and an old firend of the Herald, is clerking for K. T. Duke & Co., at Omaha, for the present. Mike Sehnellhacher, our favor ite blacksmith, has been sick, nigh unto death this past week, but we are glad to announce that he is fa.-t getting better, under the care of Dr. Jim. Black. Jim Tucker has written a let ter to his father, and is very much better. The physician at the asylum expects to discharge James, cured, before fa'll. Complaint has been made to the Herald against tying horses to trees in the public grounds of this city, and allowing them to stand for hours, thus destroying the young limbs. William Herold is having new shelves put in the west side of his building, and will till them with a bran new slock of dry goods. He is going to keep a large assortment of good goods, which he will sell cheap for cash. Mr. D. H. Wheeler will dispose of the large stock of stoves and tinware left at the store of F. T. Duke & Co., very reasonable for cash. The firm only moves their hardware stock I Omaha and not the stoves and tinware. Master Willie Slreight met with a very painful accident yes terdav. He was rolling a hoop with a lath, one end of which was sharpened, when he fell down, striking his cheek against the sharpened end, forcing it through his cheek into his mouth. Dr. Livingston was called in and re lieved the little sufferer. Little Cora Wells had a bad fall yesterday morning. She was down on her knees looking over the side of I he foot-bridge in front of her home, when she sud denly pitched off head (iit into the Branch, striking the side of her head on some bricks, bruis ing her face badly. Fortunately no bones were broken. . D. L. Morrow changes and en larges his advertisement in two ways this week. The firm has grown, being now Morrow Broth ers, and the ad increases to keep pace with the linn and also the increased amount of business they do. Mr. Morrow informs us that they intend ' building a nw blacksmith and machine shop for a certainly this fall, and they w build a foundry in the spring at BLARES EL mend v Adapted ) ...WITH... A BQt and BRILLIANT COMPAHY and COMPLETE PRQD13QTIG:-1 SPEQIAL PBlGtES 1st two Rows Parquet 50c Balance of Parquet and 1st two rows Dress Circle. .7ic Balance of Dress Circle $1.00 AH of Balcony SCc Gallery Ssais on Sate Friday, February 2QH3 r.J any rate, ;md po-rihiy this fall, if the promise of wi-rii will warrant them in so diii-. They ha several h.!s donate. t. them f..r a foundry site comlil i..nal upon their builditur before ioxI Ma. We are glad to h.-ar this g-..d news and see ,.Me lliile prog ress V. the riirecS i- ii the Jlei a'el has long pointed out Th-' Herald had a eiy pi.-a-a'o call Mon. lav from Mr. !'.. II. j '-;.. VrlCLA TOfl ROSESCBAfiS we are sorry to ay, aimut I" bae us for Otoe county hi lio'l spring. .Mr. Wooi-ev tia ji.-l sold his farm in this c.-unly f--r s lll,n,in. l m;.y n., he unin-tere.-tiii- to note I he fact- e.. : meled willi the co( am al. f this land. One hundred and ii acres were pie-empi id at g eminent price. Sl.',." per a i . : 1)0 acres more were add.. at difi'eient limes al an a'ia "f less than s. per acre. It r.ow brings oer 2S p.-r acre, of course with all the improe nienls. Mr. WooNey ia livd in this county inee In."7. con sequently he is one of oiif lde-l s'llbrs. lie came here with small means and became in dependent by industry and Ho use of good common m- and a thorough knowledge of his h;i-i-ness. He raised calllc and !ier.-.-tpiite extensively and it i- pre sumable fed up his surplus Liai:; and marketed it iu the -Iiape T stock. We have made the few remarks aboe to h. ip hov (hat farming in Nebraska will pay when conducted with shim- and skill. While we are oriy l. Jose so good a cilieii as Mr. Woolsey. wo are ulad lo learn that his farm has been purchased by another live and energetic Ne braska farmer, v. ho w ill p!-.h,tld enlarge and improve it still more. Tin purchaser is Mr. Ander n Hoot, of Lincoln, and nw man ager of the agricultural firm of (lies late under the control of llo university. Mr. Root owns a:i- ilie Plaltsmouth Business College is now open and ready to receive all those who arc 't5lnu3 of ;i tl.orsu-a practical business training. All commercial tranches lai:Jht. c::.l raci.: BOOKKEEPING COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC COMMERCIAL LAW RAPID CALCULATION BUSINESS LETTER WRITING (Day school 9 to 12 cr.d 1:30 to I o'clock, Nfc'at Sci.cd 7-'2J to 10) Five days and evenings each week. This Is a splendid opportunity not only l.r y.:;r-4 men ami v.omcn of Plattsmoath and vicir.ity to penVc-: th ir.- ives in the i.bive u' ;t(t. i t.c .:. for the business men and women whi wish to improve a!-;-ai thtc linrs. For inf r:::.i:. re gard to rates, course of study, etc.. write or sec S. P. RANDALL, Field Secretary rsn CTT3 P n Ii ii Evening', DANIEL L. MARTIN OFFESS from Ccnc Stratton Porter's Ccok LX i - ' ""- T'-- " - "Hot f,.ti.! r.Ic, r. 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