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“ As we are— what we are— let’s try
"It's all talk,” cried Annie lndig
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"But I’m not complaining, understand
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Alicia shook her head as she an
to another."
Alicia held up her hand protest- swered kindly:
“ No, I don't. Believe me, 1 don't.
ingly.
“ How could I?” she exclaimed. You were right when you said that at
“ Now, be reasonable. You are held | such a time as this one woman should
responsible for Howard's present po stand by another. I'm going lo stand
by you. Let me be your friend, let
sition.”
"Yes—by the police," retorted An me help you.” Extending her hand,
nie grimly, "and by a couple of yellow she said: “ Will you?"
Annie grasped the proffered hand.
Journals. I didn’t think you’d believe
all the gossip and scandal that's been It was the first that had been held Both Phones
Corner Fifth Avenue and Second Street
printed about me. 1 didn’t believe out to her In her present trouble. A
lump rose In her throat. Much af
what was said about you.”
fected, she said:
Alicia started and changed color.
“ What do you mean?" sho exclaimed
"It's the first kind word that—” She
haughtily. "W hat was said about stopped and looked closely for a mo
me?"
ment at Alicia. Then she went on:
“ Well, It has been said that you
“ It's the queerest thing, Mrs. Jeff
married old Jeffries for his money ries, but it keeps coming into my
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“ 'Old Jeffries!’ ” protested Alicia was at Underwood's that dreadful
Indignantly. "Have you no respect night he thought he heard your voice.
for your husband's father?"
It must have been a dream, of course,
and
T illa m o o k S ta g e L ines.
“ Not a particle,” answered the oth yet he thought he was sure of It.
er coolly, "and I never will have till Your voice— that's queer, Isn’t It?
he acts like a father. I only had one Why— what’s the matter?"
interview with him and It finished
Alicia had grown deathly pale and
him with me for all time. He ain’t a staggered against a chair. Annie ran
father—he’s a fish.”
to her aid, thinking she was ill.
"A fish!" exclaimed Alicia, scandal
"It's
nothing — nothing!"
stam
ized at such lese majeste.
mered Alicia, recovering herself.
Annie went on recklessly:
Fearing she had said something to
"Yes—a cold-blooded—”
hurt her feelings, Annie said sympa
“ But surely," interrupted Alicia, thetically:
"you respect his position— his—”
"I haven’t said anything—anything
"No, m’m; I respect a man because out of the way— have I? If I have I’m
he behaves like a man, not because sorry—awfully sorry. I’m afraid—I—
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Alicia looked pained.
This girl
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"But surely," she said, “ you real ing—you’ve had a great deal to bear
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“ Yes, that part of It has been made "Tell me, what do they say about the
pretty plain. It was a mistake— his woman who went to see Robert Un
mistake— my mistake. But now It's derwood the night of the tragedy?”
done and it can't be undone. I don't
“ The police can't find her—we don't
see why you can't take it as It Is and know who she is.” Confidently she
—and—”
went on: “ But Judge Brewster will
She stopped short and Alicia com find her. We have a dozen detectives
pleted the sentence for her:
searching for her. Capt. Clinton ac
"—and welcome you Into our fam cused me of being the woman—you
ily— "
know he doesn’t like me."
"W elcome me? No, ma'am.
I'm
The banker's wife was far too busy'
not welcome and nothing you or your thinking of the number of detectives
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his son."
“ Supposing the woman is found,
"I do not think—pardon my saying what can she prove? What difference
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so," Interrupted Alicia stiffly, "that will It make?”
you are quite in a position to judge
"All the difference In the world,” re
of what constitutes Mr. Jeffries' duty plied Annie. "She Is a most Im
to his son."
portant witness.” Firmly she went on:
"Perhaps not. 1 only know what "She must be found. If she didn't
I would do— what my father would shoot Robert Underwood, she knows
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have done—what any one would do If who did.”
they had a spark of humanity in them.
“ But how can she know?" argued
But they do say that after three gen Alicia. "Howard confessed that h e'
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Into blue."
fessed it would be different."
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Alicia turned to look out of the win
"He did not confess," replied the
dow. Her face still averted she said: other calmly.
“ Mrs. Jeffries— he
"What Is there to do? Howard has never confessed. If he did, he didn't
acknowledged hts guilt. What sac- know what he was saying.”
flees we may make will be thrown
Alicia was rapidly lo e '-g her self
away.”
possession.
Annie eyed her companion with con
“ Did he tell you that?” she gasped
tempt. Her voice quivering with in
Annie nodded.
dignation, she burst out:
"Yes. Dr. Bernstein says the po
"What is there to do! Try and save lice forced It out of his tired brain.
him, of course. Must we sit and do I mnde Howard go over every second
nothing because things look black? of his life that night from the time
Ah! I wasn't brought up that way. he left me to the moment he was ar
No. ma'am. I'm going to make a rested. There wasn’t a harsh word
between them.”
She stopped short
fight!"
"It's useless." murmured Alicia, and looked with alarm at Alicia, who
had turned ashen white. “Why,
shaking her head.
“ Judge Brewster doesn't think so,” what's the matter? You're pale as
E are in a better position than ever to
death—you—"
replied the other calmly.
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"He's done more than encourage me she must go mad. Pacing the floor,
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—God bless him !—he's going to take she cried:
"What am I to do? What am I to
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Alicia was so thunderstruck that for do? I believed Howard guilty. Why
shouldn't I? I had no reason to doubt
a moment she could find no answer.
"W h at!" she exclaimed, "without his own confession! Every one be
lieved It—his own father Included.
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She put her handkerchief to her Why should I doubt It. But I see It
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Underwood's apartment that fatal ed slowly.
"Y es." said Alicia weakly.
night must come Howard might still
Annie bounded forward and graspei
be the murderer. Underwood might
Her face
not have committed suicide, but her her companion's arm.
visit to bis rooms at midnight would flushed, almost unable to speak from
become known. Judge Brewster was suppressed emotion, she cried:
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"Mr. Jones,” said the lawyer quick
ly. “ get a stenographic report of the
Howard Jeffries, banker's son. under case of the People against Howard
th« evil influence of Robert Underwood, JefTrles, Jr.; get the coroner's Inquest,
fellow■ student ut Yale, leude a life of dia-
alpatton. marries the daughter of a gam- the grand jury Indictment, and get a
Wer who died In prison, and is disowned copy of the JefTrles confession—get
by his father
He Is out of work and In
desperate straits
Underwood, who had everything—right aw ay!”
once been engaged to Howard’s step
The clerk looked inquiringly, first
mother. Alicia, Is apparently In prosper
ou s circumstances
Taking advantage of at Annie and then at his employer.
tile Intimacy with Alicia, he becomes a Then respectfully he asked:
•sort of social highwayman. Discovering
“ Do we, sir?”
hi» true character. Alicia denies him the
bouse
He sends her a note threatening
“ We do," said the lawyer laconic
suicide
Art dealers for whom he acted
ns commissioner, demand an accounting. ally.
S Y N O P S IS .
H o cannot make good. Howard calls at
b is apartments In an Intoxicated condi
tion to reouest a loan of $2.000 to enable
him to take up a business proposition.
Howard drinks himself Into a maudlin
condition, and goes to sleep on n divan.
A caller Is announced and Underwood
draws a screen around the drunken
sleeper.
Alicia enters. She demands a
promise from Underwood that he will not
take his life. He refuses unless aiie will
renew her patronage, This she refuses.
Underwood kills
ratal lakes her leave
•llmeclf
The report of the pistol awn-
l b finds Underwood dead.
kens Howard
Howard Is turned over to the police,
in
t'upt. Dlinton. notorious for his brutal
treatment of prisoners, puts Howard
through the third degree, and finally gets
an alleged confession from the harassed
man
Annie. Howard’, wife, deplores her
belief In her hushand’s lnnoeenee, and
calls on Jeffries. Pr. He refuses to help
unless she will consent to a divorce. To
«eve Howard she consents, but when site
finds that the elder Jeffries dona not In
tend to stand by hit son. except tin m
viaIIv she scorns his help. Annie appeals
to Judge Hrewster, attorney for Jeffries.
Hr . to take Howard’s case. He declines.
It la reported that Annie la going on the
at-aaw The hanker and his wife call on
Judge Un-water to find some wny to pre
vent it. Annie again pleads with Brew
ster to defend Howard.
C H A P T E R X V .— Continued.
"You’ re not afraid to help him,"
she said
"1 know that—you just
said so."
Judge Brewster raised his flst and
brought it down on the desk with a
bang which raised In a cloud the ac
cumulated dust of weeks, ills face
set and determined, he said:
"You're quite right! I'm going to
take your case!"
Annie felt herself giving way. It
was more than she could stand. For
victory to be hers when only a mo
ment before defeat seemed certain
was too much for her nerves. All she
could gasp was:
"Oh, Judge!"
The lawyer adjusted his eyeglasses,
blew bis nose with suspicious energy,
and took up a pen.
"Now don't pretend to be surprised
—you knew 1 would. And please don’t
thank me. I hate to be thanked for
doing what I want to do. If I didn't
want to do It, I wouldn't—“
Through her tears she murmured:
“ I'd like to say ‘thank you .'"
"W ell, please don't,” he snapped.
Hut ahe persisted. Tenderly, she
•aid:
“ May I say you'ra the dearest, kind
est— ”
Judge Brewster shook his head.
"No— no— nothing of the kind."
"Moat
gracious — noble-hearted —
courageous," she went on.
The Judge struck the table another
formidable blow.
"Mra. Jeffries!” he exclaimed.
She turned away her head to hide
bar feelings
~Oh, how I'd like to hava a good
cry," aha m— iiured.
"If Howard
only knew I “
Judge Brewster touched an electric
button, and hla hand Clark entered.
!
C H A P T E R X V l.
"Now, my dear young woman," said
Judge Hrewster, when the astonished
head clerk had withdrawn, "If we are
going to get your husband free we
must get to work, and you must help
me."
His visitor looked up eagerly.
"I'll do anything in my power,” she
said quickly. “ What can I do?"
"W ell—first of all." said the lawyer
with some hesitation, "I want you
to see a certain lady and to be ex
ceedingly nice to her."
"Lady?” echoed Annie, surprised.
"What lady?"
"Mrs. Howard Jeffries, Sr.,” he re
plied slowly.
“ Howards stepmother!" she ejacu
lated.
A clerk entered and handed his em
ployer a card. The lawyer nodded
and said in an undertone:
"Show her In." Turning round
again, he went on: "Yes— Howard's
stepmother. She's out there now. She
wants to see you. She wishes to be
of service to you. Now, you must
conciliate her. She may be of great
use to us.”
Annie's face expressed considerable
doubt.
"Perhaps so." she said, "but the
door was slammed lu my face when 1
called to see her."
"That's nothing," answered the
judge. "She probably knows nothing
about It. In any case, please remem
ber that she is my client—"
She bowed her head and murmured
obediently:
"I'll remember."
The door of the office opened and
Alicia entered. She stopped short on
seeing who was there, and an awk
ward pause followed. Judge Brewster
Introduced them.
"Mra. Jeffries, may I present Mrs.
Howard. Jr.?"
Alicia bowed stlfi! and somewhat
haughtily. Annie remained self-pos
sessed and on the defensive. Address
ing the banker's wife, the lawyer said:
"I told Mrs. Howard that you
wished to speak to her.” After a pause
he added: "I think, perhaps, I'll leave
you together. Excuse me."
He left the office and there was an
other embarrassing silence. Annie
waited for Mrs. Jeffries to begin. Her
attitude suggested that she expected
something unpleasant and was fully
prepared for It. At laat Alicia broke
the silence:
"You may think It strange that I
have asked tor this interview," she
began, "but yon know. Annie—" In
terrupting herself, the asked: "You
don't mind my calling you Annie, do
you?“
The young woman smiled.
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