nffswvH wt TffF ' u itrfifTr W i II at iii 1 EVENING PUBLIC EDGER-PHILABELPHIA', TBUBSPAY, DECEMBER 22, 1921 15 flROM NOW ON Jiy FRANK L. PACKARD . ( union or "nw miracle mas") ionurlehl. rut. In rullla lefycr Ctni&eiij this nceiNfr Tim btuky m,. UchOcmen, who has ceme up 4rHm th"slum trt manhoe.l (n n cn tfrtSnicnt of chicanery In iiorely temrteil -Kn hli emnleyr. IJoeklo Rliarvan, T.ndi him te S i VranclMe te Bft $100, W ?fSm Jlirtln K. lydemen te recoup JfeU "he rnenry. only te nnd Hkarvaii Rti i tent t U""" t0 trte lhS Ml" !?i?.ir. ami "t n trap for him. from lihlcli I" "ela l"r nuwna iiw my rliirtta hl jmnuerB in n.Mrlld "V Ia.il AhAan lllti lflllUl nnnilt lUft .iiAmn nn junn- i ! ........... ....-. ... . 000. .. a.tfitllta nltniil Hlfi ll nnnir iti'wuv iii-i reunify null. r"rlv Marvin nil ferci.il te uunth Ills inirei in tmen nui.r. AM 1IKKU IT CONTl.NL'KS BALDY VICKERS ami Runty Mett, who had been tlttihg in the front ic.t of tbe big gray r, wcre In the bep!tn from tbe smash j tbe ethers hud net bcn much hurt. Beekie Skarvnn's cr had been identified, what there waR left of It. and that formed nn Implicat nr llnlc between bim, Dave Hendersen, inVlJaWT Victors' jcretu!. Runty Melt and Victors, belug forced UicrefeTO te explain, bad told a iitery that was almost true but tbey hudn't split en llnokte Sksrvan ttey bad left Rookh Shir Tsn out of it. The story was enough of a confession, smacked enough of State's evidence te let them out of nny criminal proceedings, even if there bad bten any really definite rlinrgc that could be brought against them. They hadn't stolen the money! The story ring true because it war almost true only they bad left Reekie Skarvan out Kiinty Melt, necerrllng te the nens Mficr. had been the fpeke.siiian. Runty lid li" li.iil overboard Beekie Sbarvnn and Dae llnnlois.en nt the racecourse, wlicn tliy vrc making arrangements te get the money from Tjdcninn. He, Rnnt Melt, had taken tlie train for Frisce, and had put It up te Baldy Vlrkcr?. Then they hnd followed IJae Hendrren. meaning te take the money from him Hie tlrit ehnncc tliey get. But liave Hendersen had banded them a Jelt by crawling in through Tj demon's library window and stealing it himt-elf. After that they had figured the cnsWt place te grab the coin wne in Dave Hen Hen iltrsen's room, when he sneaked back there with the black handbag. And Dave Ilcndcrsen bad walked right into their trap, only they hadn't heard him coming any mere than be, in turn, had been vise te the fact that tbey were there, and in the showdown he hud man Bgcd te jump through the front deer and reach ids car. lie bad the money In the black hnndbag with him. They had chased hlra In the ether car that the pollee had found smashed up, and had nearly get blui, when he threw the black handbag out of the car. They rtepped le pick it up, and found out the trick he had plnj ed en them. The band Ug was empty, he still bad tbe money In his car. vincy ioek up me cuusu ubuju and crashed into the ether mnehlne n-iii.re Dnve Hendersen bad left It blocking the read just around a sharp llflre irendersen'n laugh rang with a toil's mlrtb through the boxcar ngaln. That w.ih all! They bndn't split en a iral. They hail ictt tne pal te mm. Itnnty Mett had told the story and Runty Mett's story went! He, Dave Htndtrsen, wouldn't change It! They didn't knew, and Beekie Sknrvan didn't knew', that he knew. They had left Beekie Sbarvnn te mm and tuey had xnade Mri. 'Peeler's pigcon-ceto as tife as n vault. The slue of tbe car en a cure flung him with a savage wrench from his el bows te hla back again, and he groaned la ajdny. lieu unslics tlauccd Dctore his eyes, and nausea came ence mere, and falntncw and he lay for a long time ttlll. It seemed ks ttieugh he no lepger bad any power te mec; even the pain seemed te have become subordi nate te a phvblcal tense of weakness and 'mnetence that had settled upon him. Ills head grew dizzy and most strangely liht. There came tbe blast of the engine whistle, the grind nnd thump of buffer beams, tbe shriek of tbe brnlicsbees bit ing at the wheel tires, the sickening sen sen catien of motion being unmoetbly checked. His mind did net grasp the dgnificancc of this for n moment and then with a frantic effort bu ttnigglcd te his feet. The deer! The car deer! He must close it he muft close the deer. The train was stepping. If any one passed bj outside nnd saw the deer open, and looked in, he was caught. He was tee wean te fight tiny rner tee weak te ran any mere. He must close the deer lie ceum net btand. The car swayed, nd bumped, nnd lurched tee much! Ne ena could 6tand with the car jolt jolt leg around in circles like that! He cropped te his knees, nc could crawl. then. The deer! The cm- deer! It nraet be tIecd even if. he bad te drag himself te It. It wasn't far tr the deer iust a few feet. It was the pain in bis leg that made him fnint, but he could get that far just te the deer. He touched 'Is lips with hit tongue aguln. They wren t dry new, bis lips, and there was n cinieiis titMc upon them, nhil they hurt. They tasted uf bleed. That wus funnv 1 His Icelh must have Mink into bis lips fconu'hew. But he was al most ut the deer netv c, he could reach it new. Only be couldn't rlee It when he was ljing flat down like thl. He would hnvf te get ti en his limes nt lenst. Ills bund swept lurnsa ids eyes, and piiwtcd fiercely upon ills forehead. The moon-ray watered in through llie deer in jugged, glancing trenks be hnd te .shut thnt inoen-ray out te make It black here in the car. Strange! Jt was growing black new, even though he had net shut the deer perhaps it Was a cloud the moon passing behind n cloud. His body seemed te sway, te be out of control, and bis knees, instead of balancing him. crumpled .suddenly beneath hlui, pitching him forward, face downward, en tin' fleer of the car nnd something seemed te snnp inside bis bead, and It was black, nil blackness. Repose, comfort. Ineffable luxurious luxurieus iiccs, semcUiing wft nnd seething sup porting ids body, nnd u freedom from thn excruciating, unbearable, intoler able pain that he had been enduring! He wns dreaming! He dared net open his eyes. It was a dream. If he opened bis eyes he would dispel the illusion, nnd the pain would come ugaln. It seemnl as though he had been upon ii great journey thnt was crowded with a multitude of (.trangc, fantastic scenes and happenings. He could net remember them all distinctly: they jumbled together in ills mcmer the orphan school, the rnc. track, Square Tehii Kelly and $3000 in the I'aclik I'aclik Ceinl Saleen en the Ilarbnry Const, all conglomerated into one. He remembered enlj en tiling dis tinctly, and that was bemuse it had happened se often. He was in n great, gloomy forest, nnd always Just nhend of him was Beekie Hkunan. He did net knew why it was, hut be could nlwnjs see Beekie Sknrvan in the darkness, though Beekie Sknrvnn could net see him. And yet he reuld never quite reach thnt fnt, damnable figure thnt kept flitting ureund the trees. Beekie Sknrvan was net running away, be be cnuse Beekie Sknrvan did net cten knew that he wns being followed and yet Beekie Swnrvnn always eluded him. If he was dreaming new, It was at least a ery vivid dream. He remem bered. He hnd iust fullen unconscious en the fleer of the car. Well, then, he must get the deer shut, if he was te escape. Yes, the pain might come ngain If he moved, it would take nil his will power te shatter this blessed rcstfulness, and he waa still very tired ; but he had no choice it was win or iesc all the way no limit. He opened his eyes. He did net understand at first; nnd then he told himself quite simply that of ceurse he could net still be lying en the fleer of that lurching car, nnd at the same time (eel these soft things nil mound his body. He was) in bed in a white bed, with white cecrt) and there was n screen around his bed. And around the corner of the oerecn he could tee ether beds white beds with white oecrs. It must he a hospital ward. Tbere was some one sitting in a chair beside the feet of his bed no, net n nurse; it was a man. The man'N face for the moment was turned slightly away. He studied the face. It Mcmed familiar. His eye opened a little wider. Yes, It wns fa miliar I A cry surged upward from bin heul itself, It seemed and was ehokeu back. Ills hands, clenched fiercely, re laxed. There came a queer smile te twist his lips. The man at the feet of the bed wns looking nt nim new. It was Barjan, Lieutenant Jee Barjan, of the Frisce plain-clothes rquad. 1 he man spoke : "Holle, Dave!" "Helle, Jee!" There was bllencc The ether speke ngaln : "Tough luck, Dave! Serry te gtab you like ?his. Feclinj better?" "Seme," said Dave Hendersen. Barjan neddtd is bend. "It was teucL jnd go with you, ' he Rain. uuu icg, iju icier you ve been lying like n dead man since the night they found : ou in the freight cnr." Davi Hendersen made no reply. Thcre wasn't any deer te shut new, and he wouldn't have te meve new until be went awny with Jee there back te Krlsee. He wasn't tMuenlint htacked cards v a new deal with a new pack perhaps seme day be wasn't epical ing but he couldn't fight anv mere net new he couldn't fight he wns tee weak. "I've been hanglne around two or three days wnltlm; for you te come nut of dreamland, se'h I (eiild iitk jetj u luestlen," said Barjan rdeiifantly. I "Come nrress, Dive! 'Where'd ten put that llttle package ou hs.d with .ou when jeu beat it from the cnr, nnd handed Bnldy the broken ribs?'' Dave Hendcrtwn (milled. He wns very weak, miserably weak: It wns nn effort te talk; hut his brain, becnuse there wnsn't nny pain, was clear clear enough te match Burjan'n. "Come ngaln." aald Dave Hcnder Hcnder ren. . "Aw, can that!" A tlnge of im patience hnd crpt Jnte the police of ficer's voice. "We set the whole Mery. Runty Mett and Bnldy Vickcra opened up wide." "I read about them In the papers, said Dnve Hendersen. "They nli enough without me butting in, didn't they?" "Yeu mean," said Barjan sharply, "that you won't oemo ncress?" "Whnt'n the use!" said Dnve Hen Hen dereon. "Their story gees, doesn't it? I wouldn't spoil a geed story. They If 8 3w J lit BsfeSllI It was Barjan, Lieutenant Joe Barjan, of the Frisce plain clothes squad said I took the money, and if you be bo be Heve them, that gees. I'm through." "Ne geed!" (mopped Barjan. "You'd better open up en where that money is, or It will go hard with you!" "Hew hard?" inquired Dave Hen Hen dereon. "I dunne," said Barjan grimly. "Five years." Flve years! new long was five years? nis mind was growing tired new, tee, like his body. He forced himself te the effort of keeping it active. It was a long way from where Baldy Vlckera had broken bis ribs, nnd where they thought he, Dave Hendersen, hnd last hnd the money, te Mrs. Tooler'.s old pigeon cote! And a hundred thousand dollars In five jenrs wns 20,000 a year f al ary, $20,000 a yenr. Five years! It was win or lese, wnsn't It? Ne hedging! Five enrf 6te years befere he could eettle with Beekie Sknrvan! He spoke aloud unconsciously. "It's a long tlme te wait." "Yeu bet jour life It is!" said Barjan. "Don't feel yeurself ! It's a KEOTPiJf iMBiiiwmwmnrra TODAY The finest butter in America! I seib i I i '' MM 'UTIUTi At all our Stores bell of a long tlme in the pen 1 And if jeu think jeu could get nwny with the wnd when jeu set out ngain, you ve get another, think cemlns, tee! Tnke It from me'!" , "I wasn't thinking about the money, .ntd Dnvc Hendersen slowly. "I was thinking nbeut thnt story." He closed his cjuH. Tbe room was swimming around him. Five jears chalked Nip te Boekio Hknrvnn! His hand en the coverlet clenched nnd raised nnd fell impotently te the coverlet again. He was conscious that Bntjan was lean ing ecr the bed te catch bin words, becnuse he wnsn't spenklng very loud. "I wns thinking it wns n long time te wait te get even." A woman's voice teemed te ceme drifting out of spnec that would be the nurse, of ceurse a woman u vole "That's all vCrv well! xeu may be a pollee officer, but jeu hnd no busi ness te make him talk. It" Is net strong enough te stand nny excitement, nnd " The voice drifted off into nothing ness, BOOK II: I'lVE YEARS LATER X Convict Ne. 550 Frem semewhere far along the Iren gallery a gunrd'a beet-heel rang with a hollow, muffled, metallic sound; from everywhere, as from seme strange, ln ln ceptive cradle, the tource out of which nil sounds emanated, and which, tee, was as bonie strange sounding beard that accentuated each individual sound ns it wns given birth, came a confused, in determinate, scarcely audible rupture of the silence thnt never censed its nnensy, reslcss murmur. It wns like water sim inerinir In n caldron only the wntcr wns n drear humanity, and tlie caldron was this grny-wnlled, steel-burred pince. A voice, low, quite inarticulate, fall ing often te little mere thnn n whisper, i.iMnililmt n.wlli.uulw ill 'I'lint was the I old liemb thrower, old Teny Letuaz.l, the lller, In the next cell. The man wu l nrnlinblv cllnelnK te thn burs et Ills tloer, his fdru thrust tip ngnlust them, talking, talking. talking-aiwny& min ing te himself. He did net disturb any body. Everybody was used te it; and, besides, the man did net talk loudly. One even had te listen attentively te catch the sound of his volce at nil. It had become a habit, second nature; the man wns incorrigible. Presently ths guard would ceme along, and perhaps rnp tlie old man en the knuckles; niter tli tit IOtnazzl would retire te blB cot quite docilely. It had been thnt way night after night, vtck after week, month after month, jenr nftcr year. Dave Hendersen laid the prison li brary book, that he had been fingering absently, down en the cot beside him. It was still early evening in early sum mcr, nnd there was still light In the cell, though hardly enough te read by; but he had net been reading even when there had been better light. Ills mind was tee nCtlvc tonight. And new there was a curiously wistful Millie en his face. He would miss that stumbling, whisper ing voice. A most strange thing te miss ! Or wns it the old man himself whom he would uilss? Net tomorrow, net even next week, there still remained blxty three dajs but Blxty-three days, with all the rest of the five jcars behind them, gene, Bervcd, wiped out, were llke tomorrow; and, as ngalnst a lifer's tell, it wns freedom, full born and actu ally present. Yes, he would miss Teny Lemnzzl. There was a bend between the old man nnd himself. In almost the first lluh of his entry into the peniten tiary he had precipitated a fight amongst his fellow convicts en account of old Teny. Twe of them had geno Inte the hospital, nnd lie. Dave Ilcndcrsen, had gene into the black hole. He snt suddenly holt upright en his cot. He hnd net forgotten the horror of these dnjs of solitary confinement. He wns net likely te forget them the silence, the blackness. The silence thnt enme nt Inst te MTcnm nnd shriek nt him in mjrlad voices out of the black- WJiAl'UilIillMlililllill'illi'llli!! lilflllffl The Scientifically Built Watch 11:9 i. yC 3:D ThcWa!tham"10ske,,Ne. 1015 Gentlemen's Thin Watch Fer Twenty-Eight Dollars Just Read these Values Ne.l It's a Waltham mevcrnent. That means the best geed timq-kecping, and dependa bility. Ne.2 It'sa"ieSi2c." That means a dressy v atch It leeks it, and it is as gecd as it leeks. Ne.3 It's thin. But Waltham quality guarantees, a lifelong service Ne. 4 Celd-filled case, guaranteed for 20 years Ne.5 Twenty-eight dollars! Stjle accuracy reliability, at an eye-opening price. And the name "Waltham" en the dial. Ask your jeweler te show you this Waltham Gentlemen's "10 Sec" Watch. It is a beauty. " rite for aialuable booklet that it a liberal "WaUh" education Sent fret upon request. The Waltham Watch Company Crescent Street, Waltham, Aaw. WALTHAM THE WORLD'S WATCH OVBR. TIAAE n'ktrt ytnituimfn lity mO tt'tUUm SV.fciri WiiiM c' Cir Jamtiii Wqhham qlf.rlttle'x fuifily Sfittdetr.fj-l aivi .AvUrwfcUf 1 iit(.i;cfi uttd en (he uvrtd 3 tiadmi cs- GIFTS THAT LAST until he was upon the verge of cell, nnd his fricc, lean nnd hard, seftr ulng nnd shrieking back in raving.' toned, nnd, (ltiglug the dre -wli prison jmner, a uuu -nu'i ".",.,, 1 IiiI,h. The mnn was n lifer. A lifer . (foil, he JsiKW wlmt that mount! 1 m venrs of a living hell hnd taught him thnt I'iw jenr- thnt were eierijltlep piled upon eternities nnd they were on ly n short step nleng the path toward the only goal te which a lifer could leek forward death ! ... Yes, he knew! The massed Hriniticf", that were culled five years by these who walked outstde In the sunlight, wh.ere men laughed, nnd women mnllwl, nnd children plnjed. had taught him why old Teny Lemn.zl clung te the bars nnd whispered. ness .nriinmlm. iinhlUKdl ubnnden; the blackness thnt 1 prison was ns the blackness of the pit of hell, nnd thnt eninc nt lnt le be peopled with hideous phtinteui shapes thnt plngued him until, fnc- down mi bin cot. hr would ilk' his lists nte his cjch thnt lie might net see the blackness I Ills hnnds clenched hnrd ns the mem ory of It eurged upon him ; but n moment later he lnughed a little tinder hla breath. It had been bnd, bnd enough; but he wnsn't thcre new, was he? Old Teny bndn't deluged him with nny excessive thnnks. The old man had simply called him a feel but there hnd been n dlfTerenee lifter thnt. On the mnrch our from the cells, old Ten wns nlwns the mnn behind him, tiud old Tonj's Mieuldtr touch in the lock step wnsn't ns perfuncteij an It had been before. And there bud been yours of thnt. Yes, he would miss old Teny Lemazzl S Instinctively he turned his head in the direction of that voice that whis pered through the bars of the adjoining HONOR SWARTHMORE HEAD Te be continues! tomorrow Nursc3 Give Dinner te Children V.,rk nt (lie ltnnnii of Health. !)! tlwien of Child Hjglenc, entcrtnlnrd! .rn ihiin '.JOO children .veslcnlay aft ernoen nt u Christmas party In the. x..rBes' Health Cfcntcr Ne. a, 2128 Seuth Eighth street. Reception te Dr. and Mrs. AydeJeUi at Art Alllance Fellow Dinner rhvnitlimerc tinned out hi force Uifcfc night nt the Art Alliance in honor of Dr. Ajdelettc, jiKshlent of the college and Mrs. Aydolettc. who ' jlyia their formal Introduction te I'ullailtl phinns socially. The reception W made the occasion of the presentation te the college Jicnd of a rare cngrnvlnK In sepia from the oil painting by Hritg hefT of Benjamin AVct und family. Mr. Andrew D. White, daughter of n for mer hwnrlhtnerp pn-Idcnt, presented, the engraving. ,,..., I'rier te the reception nt the Art AI llanee there wns a dinner In honor of Dr. nnd Mrs. Ajilelotle nt the rl drncc of Mr. nnd Mrs, Albert Hosep Hesep thai, 1722 Walnut street Impetus wan git en at the reception te the movement by the alliance te purchase the Benja min West home, en Bwnrthmeri cas" pus, for a permanent memorial CBia I M3HmwyrM areains Canned Fruits IN PHILADELPHIA, CAMDEN, LANCASTER, READING AND VICINITY Big A & P CANNED FRUIT A&P Peaches A&P E Cherries Yellow Cling Save lie Can Ne. 2V2 Can Save 8c Save 5c A&P Pears . . A&P Apricots . A&P Grated Pineapple Ne. Can Ne. 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