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rv»j><H i « m | in tlx» community Her life
hiul I n a long s tm rg l« against «I'l*
vUii-b sb«> bitil overcome *lth not»
»K
worth pollcni-«« and Industry.
‘STA?
It hns h«n>n »uspavtsd tor soma tlm««
that Scottilal«' »»« on the main boosa
route Iwtween Canadian porta and !
Detroit and Chicago,
Furlharmura.
thi re were hint» that peace olttcera
were being »ubaldlted to look the
other way when the truck» slipped
through In the night Thl» waa keen
ly resented The town had been dry
M ic h a e l
J. P h il li p s
for years before tin puarage of the
klghtceuth Amendment, and the uuui
I llu s t r a t io n s b y H s n iy J^y L aa
er»us violations had aroused public
C o p y r tj^ t M ioK a.1 V . P h i l l i p »
sentiment
R a U u a d tiu«* P«*hl»aha< » A n t a c u U r 5«rvloa
Eddie FVrbes had been popular
Hut now that he waa under arrest
for a mishap due to liquor. It waa
recalled that ho had been drunk »Itli
THE LEADING CHARACTERS — indeed!" she commented coldly. ' te the only square, decent thing to do. more or less frequency In the past.
Edison Forbes, a young resident of does stand high, does he? And of Of course. If that companion chose Kcpud latIon by hla employelr
Scottdale, goes on a little Joy ride with course you're being under arrest and to come forward voluntarily, the com
'tnrtuenve, had done much to turn
another young fellow
A )iu e liquor j losing your Job isn't hard on me! You pllcattous would be smoothed out
Uli. >ll|limuon y agaUnat him
He had left the block In which his j Th>,
overwhelmed blur like a
la consumed They are stopped sod owe something at home, don't you?"
But he shook his head stubbornly home was situated when he met » I lttlulsl(l|,,
The prosecution produced
denly by the sight of a boose truck
"I can't do It. Pat. I've thought it ail small boy on a bicycle. The boy dis , wl, neMea u, prove that he had been
driven by
Mi„ne on the truck, on the
Scoots Libbey. a worthless charac over In a way I'm responsible for that mounted, handed him a plain * :,lt**
a|r(>(.l (|, B u r,#y
, w„ j
ter. who has smashed his machine in wroman's death. If 1 hadn't persuaded en v elo p e c . w h ich w a s ty p e w r itte n
accident Thia waa
to another car. killing its lone occu- Ubbey to break into a case at Burl«« anly Forbea' nan», and rodej.n >«*!"-j houni ,„.(orr
pant a woman
Forbes' com pan i n he might have not gotten drunk Don't He tore It epen curiously. There w i< while Scoots Libbey cooduct«»d the
eno Libbey quit the scene hurrldly, you see? And. if when this chap offer a half sheet of paper inside There wretchedly 111 Harney Oik to the
leaving the former alone to face a ed me a ride. 1 had asked him to tak were a few words, also in typewriting. Burley House, a short distance away
constable who reasons that Eddie, me home, he would hare done It. i upon It He read
But Harney had entered the hotel
vith the scent of whiskey about h.m That's all there would have been to It.
"For God's sake. Eddie, stand by | alone. Hearing of the accident, he
must be connected In some way with But I didn't. It's like pushing over a me. If you tell about last night I will d
. r, d n,.i t morutug before n-
the accident-
is line
Hne of
It will
will break
break my
my peo
pro !
It
the
accident. Accordingly
Accordingly, Forbes
Forbes Is
of dominoes
dominoes. 1 1 gave
gave the
the shove
shove be
be disgraced
disgraced
could be queationod
There was neither sala
arrested.
1 and it's up to me to stand the g»ff pie's hearts
No one had noticed Forbes com
tatton nor signature
alone.”
panlon and the latter'a car ou the e l
He tore the note into small pieces pedttiou to Burley This was because
•‘Unless, of course, he offers to
C H A P T E R III.
as he walked along and allowed them Eddie had left them on a side street
help. That'll be different'*
A Doubting W ift
•e
He could feel her stiffening with to sift into the new graas. He wae while he skirmished the liquor
No
lt was his own wife. Patsy j
resentm ent and something else. She contemptuous, but the appeal streng thing could he found to substantiate
Fcrbes who first gave expression in
rose and began clearing away the thened his determination to protect his story that the wtsalng Scoots was
his hearing to the doubt of Edison s
dishes.
"It — it almost looks as the weak youth. "If I don't do it. responsible for the accid en t There |
story—a doubt which hung over the
though there might have been some- he'll Just about go to the doga.” was little to connect Uhtwy with the
community like miasma from a swamp | ¿ ¿ Y d „ ' hoBon^ 7 ~ :
murmured
thought Eddie.
truck. There was a Mackinaw coai
I n the succeeding days. Scoots
C H A P T E R IV .
on the driver's seat. In one of the
He
knew
what
she
meant,
and
Libbey was not captured the night of
pockets was a partly-emptied bottle
“Guilty"
the tragedy. He slipped through the flushed. They had been married only
a year. Previous to her coming to
For his compan-.m w .n “ o- of the of liquor. The cargo waa Intact ex-
telephone dragnet- No one had seen
Scottdale with her father and step stuff of which martyrs are fashioned. cept for one case which had been
him; nor was trace of him found
mother to reside, he bad been tacitly He was easily led. easily oppressed opened and from which two bottles
thereafter.
engaged to Nance Encell, daughter of by disapproval He «rss of the tvp« bad been taken.
Edison spent the night in the county the town's richest man. But Nance
The prosecution argued that Barney
whose face registered with hangdog
>11. He was formally charged, next was headstrong and hlgheptrlted.
falthfuness for days the record of a Oik waa the driver and sole attend
morning, with manslaughter for caus They quarreled frequently and vio
few hours' dissipation “Well, you're a a n t That he had broken Into the
ing the death of Mrs. Mara Knowles, lently. After one of the quarrels ha weak sister, kid," he summed up. case and abstracted the bottle which
the collision vicUm. Bail ws arranged met. fel In love with Patsy Jane and "which 1« all the more reason I have was found in the Mackinaw
That
and he was released. He stopped at married her. all within the space of to stand by you If I told, your father the coat belonged to him. That h
the ice and coal office of Sam Hilton, three months.
would probablv kick you out; they'd bad become sick by reason of over-
where he was employed as office mana
Nance was one of the first to call fire you down at the office. Just the indulgence and stayed at Burley. And
ger, to explain his tardiness before after they were settled In the little way I was fired by old Sam. You'd that Forbes had volunteered to take
going-home.
white house.
There was a good- slink away to the big town and be a the truck on to Its destination The
next step in the hypothesis was that
He found that news of his arrest humored air of "let bygones be by bum
'•Oh. I know If 1 save you this time Eddie had also helped himself to the
was before him. Hilton, a grim, nar goues” on the surface, but seemingly
row-faced man of sixty, prayed at each a lurking Imp of malice beneath She you'll probably stub your toe ooner liquor between Burley and Scottdale.
Wednesday evening's prayer-meeting showed open favor for her old sweet- or latei. anyway But that's not n.y That he had become so drunk he could
affair I 'won’t be to blame I hare not manage the truck and the acci
for the confusion of booxe and Its sup- heart at parties and dances,
porters. He felt, to bolster up his ; ghe cjm e an(j went as she pleased, my course mapped out I must keep dent followed.
Eddie was on the stand In hl* own
prayers with what he considered good sh e had her own car. Ils powerful the faith, no matter what happens
defense.
But he did not help his caso.
next
week
or
next
year.
Besides.
I
works, that be must discharge Edison, motor was frequently heard roaring
And he did so.
' at unconventional hours along Scott- really don't need your help No Jury He told nls story strictly in accor
dance with the truth. He steadfast-
Forbes went on home. In the little ! dale's quiet streets. It might look would convict on «uch flimsy evi
edly refused to give any hint of the
dence."
white-painted house which they rent- thought Eddie, moodily, after he ha I
He was curiously mistaken in this. Identity of the person with him In tin-
ed on ScottsJaye's seconl-besi street, kissed his wife goodbye and started
He failed to take into consideration car. The sheriff had tried to pro« •
Patsy Jane cr ed over her husband and downtown, that he ha1 h«“>n o«t rM.
many elem ents which combined to up by a search for distinguishing tiro-
¡ng
with
Nance
last
night
and
waa
petted him
The Jail breakfast had
work against him with wbat appeared marks in the narrow lane leading
concealing
the
fact.
Well,
if
Patsy
not been palatable; she made coffee
to
be personal
mallgancy.
Mrs. form the riper road to the highway
and cooked eggs and bacon. With Jane was silly enough to believe that, Knowles, the woman who had be.n But as so many cars hud followed the
let
her.
He
would
keep
silent
as
to
the boyish sm ile and frank simplicity who his companion was. That was ’ crushed to death, was admired and
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which were his chiefest charms, Eddie j
told her the story of the previous
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'‘Now you go ahead and walk over
me. Pat.” he concluded. “For I cer
tainly deserve It . I’ve acted like a
foci .md I've lost my Job. all on ac
count of a bottle of hootch. But be
fore you start I want to tell you that
I'm done, through, completed, finis!
No nu>re boose for mine. I'm off the
stuff for life. When I saw what It
did last night it opened my eyes, I can
you. Oh. I know I've said this all be
fore. But this time I mean IL I’m
done; that's all."
"You didn't say who was with you,
Eddie,” «vas her comment.
"No. I didn't. PaL” he replied. "I'm
not going to tell anyone.”
She looked at him in surprise. "But
at the trial you'll have to. won’t you?"
"Not if I don't want to; and I don’t.”
•'But why?"
«
"Well, it's like this,” he began
shame-fared and flu sh in g. He was
about to confess a determination to do
a generous thing, and it embarrassed
him
'The fellow who w ag with me
w isn ’t one of mty p a rticu la r cronies.
Pat. He has a good Job. He doesn't
take a drink once in six months.
• "I didn't intent to go to Burley last
night. ! was headed home after g et
ting a balance on the month's business.
But there was a smell of spring in the
air. It was moonlight. I was tired
out; I've been working extra hard for
six or eight weeks. This fellow drove
along and the Idea popped into my
head from nowhere to go hunt a drink
When he offered me a lift I pnt it up
to him. He. well, he sort of acted on
Impulse the way I did. The first
thing we knew, we were on our way
to Burley.”
• "I know, Eddie." The wife shook
with tender Impatience the hand
which she was fondling. “But he'a
free, white and twenty-one. Isn't he?
H e’e able to hear his share of the re
sponsibility. Isn't he? Why, you may
have to go to jail unless you tell Or
he doe« "
He smiled tolerantly. ”0 h , no, I
won’t But he must come forward of
lile own accord. He has a good Job;
he stands high here. It would he
awfully bard on hla people. And re il
ly, I’m to blame—
Patsy Jane let go his hand.
"Oh,
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