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í' SCIO, OREGON, JULY 26, 1890. question. He took a hasty and .upqer©- cai?e of them in a wäythat beats the 1 He pushed the door still further; ho of Jefferson market ahead of him. and mjonious leave. For .half an. ¿pur ¿e srife-deposit vault out of sight.” , I was conquered. It seemed that he then realized that he was bound to ap* cpuld hear a. derisive chuckle from the plodded through plowed, fields, , and The clerk laughed and gäve Öräne a. rags in th©, next room'. He scarcely pear before the same justice, who .had climbed fences, till at length he came to lectured him but a day or two previous* a factory of some sort from which sever-, little key strung on a rubber band de looked at the,clothes, but hustled them l.v, they fell to quivering ominously.- signed to go abput tbelaiter ’ s wrist.. on, all bu$ Jsfie coat, which he carried al little branch railroad tracks,ran to “Number forty-one,” he called to an I iiito thp ha 11 because a strange feelih2 Nevertheless lie kept up appearances tfie .main lnm near. by. Freight cars and entered the court roöm with an air wére being loaded there; and Drane, attendant, who immediately conducted came over him that he had se?n it be of dignified self-possession. Drane to his dressing-room. . fore. Under an electric light he turned watching his chance, got aboard of one T 5 The bulk of the day’s business had What a delight it was io lay aside the unobserved, On the top of a big box been cleared away, so he and his com rags of poverty! When Drane ©merged he stretched his weary limbs and fell panion in distress were summoned At from the little room clothed : only in a asleep. once to the bar.z . The train was in motion when he a sheet, he.'felt as good as his neighbor. "“What is this case?’* demanded the awoke.. T It ‘ ran on for nearly an hotir, he Even his hunger relented for a time, .júdgé. . thought,; without stopping, . Then came and he enjoyed ¿is bath thoroughly,. . “This man/’ ■ responded the police It was two o’clock by the magnificent a lot of bumping and switching about, man, jerking his thumb towards the followed by a prolonged pause, Listen- time-piece which stood among artificial ragged tramp, “accuses this' gentleman ing, he heard a strange sound like the flowers in the great hall of the bath, of stealing his clothes/’ The judge glanced in- surprise from splash of waves. He crept to. the! side when he returned to his room and his Billy pushed Drane out into the cabin the circle thus marked out the strange of the car and found a crevice through rags. His soul and body rebelled one to the other of the parties, and and then extracted a few wails from the company sat down and -prepared to ex which he peered. To his astonishment against them more strongly than ever he looked sharply at Lawrence As if the concertina by way of prelude. When he change some friendly gossip before go he found that he was sailing on a broad before. They contrasted painfully, with face reminded.him of somebody# Then j to sleep. ; had .finished; Drane began the well- ing he ordered the ^complainant, to step up river. A great city lay to the right, and the luxury by which he had been .sur 4.4 1 “ take it you - ’re new to - the • profes- ■ - known air, “Spirito Gentil,” which is and asked him B is name. it did not take him long to discover that rounded. He sat in his chair with hi© head suited to a high tenor voice, but not to sion?” said t-he man whose apquaint- it was New York. Apparently the me in his hands and groaned aloud. Faint ‘‘Lawrence Drane,” was the cool reply. MANNA IN THE DESERT an audience of New Jersey people re anee Drane had made . in - the freight tropolis was a hard place to get away ness had followed the bath, and had Again the judge seemed to be trying been aggravated by the sight of men turning to their homes in the dead of yard. “What’s your name?” to recall something out of the dim re from. enjoying- rolls and coffee, while they re a*pocket of the garment inside' but and cesses of his memory, but th,e .effort Drane told him. night. After the first few melodious notes The float which bore the freight cars “Do you spell -it just like any other was pushed against a pier. Drane stood clined upon the, divans in the hall. He read the owner’s ..name Written, there. failed, and he composed himself to-lis had agitated the air, an intoxicated citi made up his mind to order It was Lawrence Drane!. He had stolen ten to the complainant’s, story# The zen waked up with a start and shouted: drain?” called out one of the men. and stretched his cramped limbs. almost breakfast, and trust to luck to get away his own clothes back again. ■ There was some good-natured laugh up /Say boss, quit that and sing something false Drane toj.d exactly What had hap* “This isn’t exactly a vestibuled palace ter at this, and then one of thein asked car,” he thought,, “but I have at least alive without paying for it# Yes, chere was no doubt about it. pened at .the Bath-house, not deviating we-all know. Sing ‘Annie Laurie.’” “Here you'are, sir, number forty-two,” The occupant of No. 42 had Been the in - the slightest particular from the The inebriate started his favorite Drane where he camé from. He en corné through to New York without éong . in a voice much the worse for deavored to sketch briefly and ac change, as the time-tables say,” and he said a voice; and Drane heard an at original tramp who had accomplished truth, except as his story implied his liquor, and both he and Drane were curately the events ■which had led him thrust his hands.into his empty- pockets. tendant usher a man into the next the exchange in the, hotel so nicely, claim to ownership in the clothes which . and had afterward collected the tele the real Drane had on. having a very bad time of it, when to his present situation. He thought it Travel by freight-car without a hand dressing-room. “Thank you, sir;” he heard the fel graph money-order at New Hayen. The “Did you ever see the prisoner be Billy, thinking it his duty to help his might interest them. It did. They re bag has. its disadvantages, and among partner ifi distress, came to the rescue garded him as a first-class huinorist, thorn is the lack of water, soap and a low say a minute later. Then he knew pockets of the coat were full of Drane’s fore?” asked the judge. “I think I saw. him not more than with a concertina accompaniment, and a liar of great natural endowments. chance to brush one’s hair. Drane looked that the man in the next stall had papers. He ran them, qver hastily, and “Oh, yes, we’ve all been there,” said out through the hole in the side of the tipped the attendant.. They talked could not discover that any were miss three days ago,” replied the impostor; fortissimo, which passed from one key “It was late in the afternoon and he had to another like a gentleman struggling one. “1 was a gentleman and a scholar car and wondered whether, out of re together a minute, while the visitor ing. His watch and a considerable sum of a skate on.. I remember him because with a series of epileptic fits. Several day before yesterday. It seems to me spect to cleanliness, he ought to jump inquired about the bath and the persons. pear the door escaped, and that I met you in Mr. Gould’s office. I into the dock. Then he noted the color restaurant which was connected with, money were there too#.. Hp Wondered at of thbse rags whieh he wore at the . ... <= , - others were on the point of following r dropped in to sell him a couple of rail of the water and decided that he ought it. Then he tipped the fellow again, this because prudent persons loave such ■ time.” .■ ■ .- ; things at the desk, but then he reflected The judge turned to Mr. Drane, who their example. Drane kept his tune roads; don’t you remember?” not. However, he. resolved to, give-an apd got more thanks. 1 “He has plenty of money,” of course, I that a thief distrusts everybody, and had been listening intently, and began It was utterly impossible for Drane to imitation of a good citizen making his and his temper for about a minute; and then, turning suddenly, he kicked convince them that he was telling the toilet, so he picked up a piece of broken groaned Drane, “why shouldn’t he give Hates to hand over his plunder when he the examination in the usual way, by asking his name. . Lawrence was vehe jilly’s concertina clear to the roof of truth. The more closely he stuck to glass from the floor of the car, and’prop- some of it away? Why shouldn’t he lend doesn’t know who may be watching. Drane was never so eminently satis mently moved to denounce his accuser,, th© cabin and fled-in disgust before it-, facts the louder they laughed at the ex ping it against a daub of black paint on me some? Why shouldn’t I climb oyer the tent and variety of his genius for false a box he combed his hair with his. hands, partition and negotiate the loan myself fied in his life. The clothes restored but he recalled hm determination to came down. * hiS brain to its proper balance, almost at control his tongue in this episode; there When he reached the bow of the boat hood. after, which he decided that he was ready I while he’s out of the way?” once. He wondered how he could have fore he responded simply; The rags were corrupting Him. They / ‘ He ’ d make a good delegate for the I; she was just making a landing, and in for breakfast.- But the rolls and coffee been brought to the point of entering seemed * actually to talk, to suggest convention, ” said Johnny. “ What ’ s the “Lawrence Drane.” *. . .. another minute the gates were opened didn’t come. another’s room, and he was shocked at ienvy. malice, and theft. A big scowl tangled the judge’s éy*e- and he ,walked ashore. Hé lingered a matter with sending him to Pittsburgh By the exercise of discretion he es “‘Get thee behind me’, garments of the thought, though delighted at the re , brows and puckered up his lips. Judicial moment in the ferry-house with the when the profession assembles?” caped from the car and from the pier, “ He ’ d represent all the liars in it/ ’ memory, was again in process of castiga Satan, ” he said, smiling bitterly; and sult. idea pf apologizing to Billy and plead- and stood. again in the streets of New He strolled through the hall and tion. This. time the mental prodding responded another, “ in •' a way that he arose and walked out again into the ;ng temporary insanity, but- that indi York. Then came more wandering, noticed that the thief was still sleeping. turned up a clew. .. . .. vidual did not appear. The . crowd would more than do ’em justice.” more hunger, more perplexity. At hall. An obliging attendant prepared “Haven’t you been ¿eré before!” he “I can’t promise to go,” said Drane, noon he found himself in a park which a divan for him; and he had no sooner Beside him lay the remnants of the urgqd off the ferry-boat, and hurried lunch. Drane would have been glad to ÿ Dr^ne. One lady evidently recog- • “but. the first man of you who finds looked familiar. He dropped.upon à stretched himself upon it than he fell stay and watch the fellow when he demanded sternly. • Mr. Drane’s conscience wriggled and' asleep. me in Kansas City and learns' the truth ‘ized him, for he heard her pay to ¿6? : bench and tried to decide whether it ■ Drane was awakened by the voice of waked up, but he had decided to go out groaned under the .temptation of . men scort:. “Toor fellow, his voibe must*! of what I have told you shall lïaVé a hun was the one where he had sat with her. and find a policeman to take the thief dacity# fíe was immorally certain. Hiat ave been wonderful before he ruined dred dollars and a chance to go to work.” Then he asked himself frankly whether tfie man Who had occupied the dressing into custody. a good lie would’be more efficacious in room next to his. He looked up, ahd “ I ’ ll sell my chance in . that hundred At by drink.” he would rather see her at that minute There was none in sight when he Riddled by this double-barreled in- for a pipeful of plug,” said the man".who or a sirloin steak with fried potatoes saw a well-built- young man—so far as stepped to the door; He stood there a the emergency than a guardian, ángel} but his gentlemanly instincts revolted •the sheet in .which he was wrapped al ult, Drane hung his Bead and made off had put Drane in nomination for the and a cun of coffee. lowed his proportions to be seen—pre moment, holding his chin in his hand, at lying, especially when he know ,he .. up street, which runs* parallel with the convention. “As for the phance to go don’t know,” hé muttered, burying paring to take the next' divan. The while reflecting upon the best course to was in the right. .Moreover th© angel ; Pennsylvania tracks for ta‘few blocks. to work, I don’t want it. I’ll gjve it his C‘I face in his hands. “It’s a hard ques stranger was about Drane’s weight and. pursue. The action ¿©minded him that was present the* court-room, though At the first crossing hé türned to the away.” tion. I must be in love.’’ ! * height, and they resembled each other ¿©needed a shave Very, much, and as Lawrence didn’t know it and she ¿ád right and passed over the confusion of Altogether, Drane did not find this He ; fixed ¿is. éÿés on the ground anil not a little, despite the fact that while the barber shops of the bath wore so not as yet discovered him. Perhaps her rails at the imminent risk of his life. assemblage of thé uiífórtunate so inter- There is no more dangerous place bn the ; esting as he had thought it might be. wondered why he didn’t find a half dol Drane was a handsome man, the other situated that he could kee-p an eye on influence had something-to do with .in-' there. ‘No doubt there were coins would nev©^ have been accused of any the . slumbering thief, he went in and ducing him to falter-: an afllrinátivo to . face of the earth, but Drane was in a He withdrew from; the. circla. soon and lar enough buried in the dust of New Yorja| lathing more serious than ^the possession had the last evidence of misfortune re the judge’s question. The reply stimu condition of mind whei e collision with a climbed high up on the hay till the raft shifting engine would have been a re ers were just Over his head. Then he streets to, pay ¿is vVay to.Kansas.City^ rof a good figure. One face was almost a moved, apd the unsuspecting wretch on lated the judge’s memory wonderfully. “You tried to pass yourself finder two lay down to sleep, and dreams carried Why, couldn’t he find one? He began caricature of the other. Drane could the divan still slumbered*. lief to his feelings. to accusé his gûardian angel of serious help thinking how much he should As Drane emerged- from the building names then, didfi’t you?” he. continued. A freight train was being made up on him to other and far different scenes. neglect of duty. She ought at least to not “May I explain, your ¿onor—” a side track, and Drane cfawled along ■ At first there yvere. pictures?of home, throw enough in his way to get him a have resembled his neighbor if his own the first thing he saw was the blue coat throughout had been like the last of Which he was' In ^’search. A burly “Did y*ou or didn’t you? Speak' up!’r ¿ in the shadow of it till he came to a car • • and then the familiar faces faded away breakfast. He poked around in the life few days. “I ,did, your honor, but-there were Cirr' I member of the force stood on tho edgo which looked as if it might be entered. and in their place came one which had little hèaps of rubbish at the ends of The stranger ordered some breakfast, of the side walk/as' if placed" there by cumstáñces then that justified me. I imprinted' itself ori his heart more He was on the point of trying it, when the berich With5 the toes of his delapi was in trouble and hardly knew what I a figure appeared from the shadows. clearly than he knew—the face of the dated shoes; bub his.guardian angel ap and the attendant drew up a little table, i the hand of justice.: / that it stood- between Drane and his I “How wonderful a?e the workings-of was about*” - Drane was about to run, but perceiving woman whom he had befriended and parently had no, change to spare# He so more, fortunate fellow-bather. In fact chance/’ thqugb.t I|rane, a© Be took in “What possible circumstances eould. that the other man had a similar inten who in turn had remembered him. I at a glance the advantages of the .situa-, didn ’ t find a penny. . * it wais aS near to one as the other., have justified you in lying about your . Through strange and difficult paths lie tion, he understood the case at once. Thé only article which differed from “If he eats right under my nose, this tion. “My luck Changed frbm.the in name?”. ; -J. ; '7.: . “Hold on,” said he, “I won’t hurt >vas pursuing her, t There was danger general collécHon was a piece of way,” said Drane to himself, “I shall stant my;eyes rested on that ticket.” • It instantly occurred to Lawren'co you. I’m looking for a free ride on this arqund them both. Suddenly he over the pasteboard which looked like a theater Become a raving maniac. ” He decided not to call the officer into - that here was an- opportunity to make took her and tried to speak to her, bui train, and so are you. Isn’t that so.?”- check. It had evidently been dropped A luxurious repast was ordered, and the bath so long as ¿e showed no signs, a full explanation of his situation., but “You’ve called it, boss,” said the fel his voice would not come. He was chok véry recently, for it was scarcely soiled ! th'efi the stranger lay down upon the * of going away, But to wait till the thief so much troublo had come to him from ing. She seemed to read the agony in low, “that’s my game.”* at all. He remembered, with a1 sudden and went to sleep. He did pqt came out, Clothed in his rags,’to meet a such attempts that he renewed his de “Well, I’m in with you,” returned ’ his eyes, for her face grew pitiful. He start, that restaurants sometimes sold divan ¡awake when the attendant laid tHe fate still worse; He chuckled with a termination to say absolutely ¿©things was dying at her feet.. .The hot sun cast Drane. “You know more about this : tickets that were good for a meal. With nor even when the lunch was mean satisfaction' at the thought 1 So ho responded; . business than. I do. What shall we do?” . a terrible red glare upon him. It was a hasty hand he snatched the piece of cloth brought. Some gentle shaking brought i “I decline to say.” The tramp answered by deeds, not descending from the heavens to burn pasteboard from the ground' and read: him partly to his senses, so that he was This surprised-and angered the . judge weFds? He pried open the door of the him to a cinder. ‘ ■ ‘ This ticket en titles the bearer to one able to sit up and pretend to' be pwake#, • and he ...Ordered the Officer to search With a struggle he threw the hideous car and. crawled in. Drane followed. Lawrence. . They took from him all his 1 red Turkish bath at ¡¡Eubbard’s, No. 99 West but when the attendant went a^vity be The car appeared to be freighted with vision from, him and awoke. The Twenty-seventh street. An ext^a fell ¿ack upon the pillo^ariÄ was asleep , papers, his mon©V and his Hatch'. TheV* < 1 pig-iron or some other heavy substance . gldre was Still in his eyes, the choking again in a twinkling.- * . charge for alcohol or electricity.” v considerately left him his handkerchief. of which very little made a load, for in his throat. The barn was on fire. Then Drane’s stomach' arose arid read This is the way that Fate takes advan Upse t, by thq indignity of this proceeds there was pienty ot room. Drane and Already the hay below him was blazing, declaration of infiqperidenpe#.. It ingj he exclaimed: his companion found the most comfort cutting off his escape. The smoke was tage of a man’s position to insult him. It. the would hear no excuses; no reproaches of. “I will say and1 maintain that I am able place they could in the darkness. like a visible demon clutching him. He Was not Drane’s fault that he ¿ad not conscience. “ Life, liberty and the pur Lawrence. Dranó! I live in Kansas City To the former’s great relief the train ,,groped to the wall ail'd* put his lips to a washed his face, and it was aggravating . suit of. happiness,” was its text, and it and am in New York simply on my way sjon started and ran with, no stop for little space between the boards, seeking to have a hint like this* thrown out by argued in a manner not to be answered to Boston, where I propose to negotiate nearly ari ¿our. Then there camé a halt. for air, but the hot vapor from within fate to embitter the results of her own by the precepts of mere honesty. doings. Drane was on the point of tear capital for a railroad.” rushed out, and he could not breathe. Presently Drane heard a man stop just Drane stretched forth his right hand, “Very well,” said the1 judgé, dryly, outside thé door by which they had en- The thought of death in that strange ing the ticket in rage and disdain when and secured a roll. Almost immediately , and turning to the impostor; “What féred; place crowded upon him—a fate of his better judgment checked . him.. A thereafter, as nobody was looking, he have you to say to this?” - “Jimmy/*, said a voice, “somebody’s which those who loved him would never Turkish bath-house was a nice,, quiet possessed himself of the leg of a ‘‘Why!” was the reply, “that I am Be©n-getting into this.car.” hear—his ashes scattered to the winds. place to rest. It offers the greatest of chicken. Being honest by riatui?e he Lawrence Drane* and that this fellow is. “Thunder and. tfirf/’ whispered the 'Frantically he ^truck the bo-iird before luxuries on a hot day. True, á severely returned the Bone to the stranger’s ■ tolling my story# Those’, papers* and tramp, “we’re in for it now. They’ll him with his clenched hand, it yield thorough bath is not a good thing to take, table. Other portions of the Bird fol letters which you ¿ave will probably 4 sénd us up. Tiiere’s just quo chance for ed; Hope sprang up in his heart. He on an too empty stomach, but still he lowed, together with sundry fried po make the úlattéf clear. Doubtless he ùs. 3 You stand on one side'o{ the door rained blows -upon the rotten woody till. was sure that it, could not make him feel tatoes, and such like embellishments of glanced at them at the bath and so* got and* I’ll stand on the other. . When they be beat it from its fastenings; and then any more hollow than he did without it. the feast. Then he washed down his ¿is points.” with a last effort he forced his body De arose and began his search for West scruples'with the stranger’s coffee, and climh in we’ll make a break/’ The judge looked at the papers, but That was exactly what they did; and through the opening and swung himself, Twenty-seventh street. ' It was not far went back to his room a better man. away, and in less than half an hpur he they failed to satisfy him. He asked as Drane happened to jump put directly to the ground. T ’ Ali K* HIM IN. But then came the rags again,, and stood ip front of No. 99# A handsome , I for v/ibnesses, and the attendants7at the upon the head, of the brakeman on not everi the sustaining poiyer. of a Building it was; perhaps a little too or- experience .should#have;^ taught; him to, bath wore sworn., CHAPTER V. \ guard, they escaped. paterbut eminently suggestive of lux stolen meal ööuld keep him from temp pity' the poor , fqllow, but it ; didn’t. A REMARKABLE THEFT. /‘Which of these men?” asked the In the^lea of a fence, a few minutes ury. . Drane entered., and presented his tation. He put on his underclothing, There can be no real sympathy between judge, ‘ came to the bath in goód clothes, later, Drane was joined by his late ac It is* a mistake to judge wholly by ap ticket and then stood by the Half-öpen door, costly apparel an*d the habiliments of and which one in rags?” at the desk. Th© attendant quaintance, whom he had outrun with pearances, for even Jersey mud was not stared at him. looking in at the detested- garments;. poverty. The brotherhood of man can “I remember,” said the witness, hes ease. Two or three others struggled up created in vain. To the. gentle,, yield They mocked ¿im; they said j “You’ve ntever* be accomplished; except by put itating, “ How the dickens did you get this that I took a fellow in those . immediately after. ing nature of that > substance Drane • ticket?” he. asked. got to come down to our level; .you’ve ting all- the world ' in Ohé unvarying uni rags to a “ room, and I think it was that “They’ve cleaned all the boys off the owed his preservation from serious in stolen a breakfast on our acebunt, and form. Then Drane saw that he would have one,” pointing to Lawrence. “When: he tfcain,” the tramp explained# “We’re jury when he came tumbling down the nobody knows what you ’ ll do ’ before ,iy_e . : So Drane stood theré waiting for his in the sweating room/’ he conr l htihg up here for sure.” side ©f the barn. As it was, the shock to.lip# He was determined to get inside get through with yott#” z..' 4 réveùge. *. Suddenly-thére was a hubbub was tinued, “he looked just about like any- * , Thère was a hasty consultation, and was violent. He dragged himself with the Abath now, and a small. matter of He shuddered and turned away his- from it Drane learned that they were some difficulty to the lee of a rock falsehood should not stand in his way. eyes. It wasn’t that his conscience s at the door.; An attendant rushed out body else.” There is an individuality in legs, But “ ùear an old barn which was well- fence and made a hasty examination, His moral sense had been gradually troubled him. No, indeed. He .¿ad hurriéàlÿ and looked about.. Behind which convinced him, that no bones weakened by the evil companionship of left his conscience in the pocket", of* his him.prafiq:cquld'-see the thief expostu few men recognize' it, not even at were broken. There was a soreness in his clothes and he was in a condition to other clothes, the ones the* thieves lating with tBe man at the desk. Then tendants at baths who have unrestricted opportunities for observation. The* tes his throat and lungs which made every stretch the. fabric of - truth’s spotless had taken, and he wondered, by the I : tfie attendant’ s eÿés fblUupoh Dhane. i “Arrest that, man,” said he to the po- timony of these witnesses made it pret breath he drew seem full of three-cor robe till he split it up the back. way, whether the fellow had been able, i ■ liceman/ fr‘he hàs<stolou u man’s clothes ty clear that Lawrence had left the bath “Lo,dk here,” he said, “I am quite a reg nered files, but on the whole he was in to make any riaoral use of it. . B^t his with better clothes than he wore when fair condition and able to; walk, which ular patron of this place. ‘You don’t recog shudder was caused by his. disinclina-. I in our bath!” . 1 i ‘‘‘Come with me, sir,” said the officer, he entered; but' they could do nothing was: fortunate, as no other means of. get nize me because—well, to tell the truth, tion to put on the suit which Ahad no . laying His hand upon Drane’s shoulder. to clear up the question of identity.- I’ve been on a hard spree for a week ting away'were at hand. conscience in*, its pockets'— \ip other [Thé bluriderbuss of ÿéngeance had Then Lawrence requested the privi-* Before him was the blazing barn, and have got pretty . w ell. torn up, as J words, no'dollars? . snot'both ways again;, as is the habit of lege of examining the plaintiff. This now one mass of fire. He reflected with you see. I’d like to sober up here in So when he turned his head away, the granted, he confused the fellow in short a shudder that perhaps some, poor the bath and then I’ll send out for a ragged clothes were responsible for it. tfiat antiquated weapon. ■ suit of clothes in which I can begin an order By putting a series'of questions wretch had. perished there, and he be Then they must also have beöii respon '■ CHAPTER yr.,* ‘ designed*to bring out his knowledge of gan to reproach himself for having era of reform by going, home to dinner.” sible for his noting that the door of No.; It PUZZLED THE JUDGE. “ What ’ s yqur name? ” . asked , the at ’ ' Kansas City and his familiarity with made no effort to rescue those who had 42 was ajar, and for.- the temptation ¡While the little party was on its' way the business mission in which- he pre been his compaiflrons in misfortune. tendant, hesitatingly. whicM came of that knowledge. The toi the abode of justice,: Drarie had time tended to be engaged. The scale ap Drane looked over his shoulder as if Then the recollection of the way th© first sin recorded against man. led »to. to; bring his. mind . to. ono definite and flames had leaped up over the hay as to make- sure that nobody could hear clothing, and Drane now f©lt the weight ; valuable conclusion. His misfortunes peared to De turning m Mr. Drane’s sured him that he peed not charge him him'decláre his real identity, and then of a fearful heredity. He, too,, would, on a similar occasion bad been, aggra favor. Justice was still in doubt, how ever, and the court declared that it self witn cowardice. He recalled the bending, over tne aesic no whispered: sin and. be ciotpea. vated by his-Own injudicious utterances. would be necessary to get some direct fact that he had climbed up on- the loft “John H. Snfyth. You remember the “I wonder if his garments would fit He resolved to keep1 still this time, ©v'eri-' evidence as to the identity. of each and that the others had remained be name, don't you?” me outwardly as wefl as his breakfast, if he had to hire somebody to gag him#' . MR. DRAKE'SÏN&S FOR HIS- FÁSSAGE. to the name of■ Drane. low, where doubtless they had been7* fitted une inwardly,” he muttetedy and I It- was little ,that he knew about New claimant “ Well, I ’ ve heard it before, ” the'clerk" “ I.think, your hohof/* said the im knowri to the “profession” as a harbor awakened while the fire smoldered, fill admitted;-“but I can’t" place you.” then laughed recklessly'. ’ York except as to its pavements an doits’ poster, “that the; people at my hotel ing place. It was decided that the best ing the barn with that smôke which Nobody was watching: fíe pushed’ distances, and both these he was prepared “Am I^so changed by a single week thing to do was to put up in this, place had nearly beeh thé death of him. the stranger’s door open a little. Yes; to condemn' as Emphatically as would can satisfy you. .! should like to go. of debauchery? ” said.Drane, sadly; then, there to get my grip and a decent suit of. f6r the night. Drane fell into the line, A crowd had now collected about the a still more confidential tone: “You they wore excellent clothes, to-judge by any reformer. He ¿ad not supposed clothes. * If I was better dressed- my ahd after a march across some fields, he barn, and he decided to .go down and in recall?my ■ nariie. p spell it with a the little he could see through the crack that his second arrest took place in th© story would sound more- likely.” entered the tramp’s hotel with- the mot mingle with it. He did so, and the first must of the door. Dres'sed in: that way Drane same judicial- district in whiclji his first Y.” ’ J . Lawrence smiled grimly at this; for ley9 crew. could eSbablisb his identity in no tipie;-I came ______ __ _ __ _ ____ words he: heard " were* ‘these “gome to pass. By‘ _ reason of liis __ rehabili- he knew? , too well how true it was.- The clerk smiled. Counting those already inr- it; who blamed tramp has set this barn afire. _____ fair* Things had changed. The clothes were* I guess it’s all - right, Mr. Smyth» and no doubt pass the whole affair off;áá •. tation his nerves Bad maintained T a were aroused by the entrance Of his. Every one of • ’em found in the côuntÿ Shall a jokq. Thus he thought, for the poor * poise during the shqrt 7 journey ' to” the I take care of your valuables?” party, there were nearly a dozen in all. i to-day.ought tpbe put in jail.”: = ; 1 “You’re too late, my young friend,” fellow was really half crazed by the'per- court, blit when he saw the ornate tower Continued on 4tfc pa#©.- Through'a'great hole high up in the Drane did not wait to discuss the I said Drane. “Somebody else is taking plexing experiences ,of tfie last few days'. wall the moonlight streamed, and in ’