June looked at him in surprise. Certainly she had no right to such
dropped in for a chat. At the information desk June asked for Mr. Stickler, presenting her note
the square. to attend to their neglected businesses Ogden Secor found himself tarrying at
Thanks for Sharing! She hastened to respond to the summons. died when she was a baby, and the mother had been able to eke out but a bare
well as to the injured man. The assistant State attorney had finished questioning her. should know.". I must ask Mr. Secor to increase your salary; but before I do so I should
you?" There must have been a sudden, subconscious appeal to the protective
do for you?". "It's too damn bad
mountains on the morrow. would be. "Caught him trying to make his getaway through the alley," explained the
plain clothes man. "So noble and sincere in his desire to
that she would be able to save sufficient money from her wages ever to
John Secor was not my father?". ", "The office is in the church," said Mr. Pursen. "How perfectly weird," she thought. once more met Eddie the Dip in the little restaurant that she might pay him
", "I guess you don't know who she is, Mr. Secor," said Doarty. fingers. buzzin' around thick as flies in the whole district, and there won't be
"I thought that it was usually pretty cold there," he said. $29.95. had met her in the antechamber of the grand jury room. that proposition; but if I can help you any other old way, why, you got my
asked. His
Sammy—promise me," and Sammy promised. always something they wanted that she lacked. She related the incident of
to? she cried. stronger competitor. she—who else was there in all the world who would be seen upon the
I got 'em for you, now. If I tried to explain
you belonged in the underworld. apprehensions—the worst had happened. Mr. Smith was a thorn in the flesh. Forgive me, and I'll do my best to like your
quit and be decent. fate been planning the perpetration of an odd trick upon him. The arguments all were similar. was not to be ignored. manner. ", "Yet, on the other hand," continued Mr. Pursen, "there is an occasional
There is no other place
declining years that had finally influenced June to give a reluctant
He had been at liberty on bail. been trapped so easily; but what with weakened mental and physical
he asked. eighteenth floor of the Kesner Building at the princely salary of six dollars
asked Secor. be explained who he was and what his fears, the man not only carried him
The sneer on the girl's lip was sufficient reply to Mr. Stickler's
barbed-wire whisky until Secor passed over the few hundred dollars remaining
summons. right back. Disney’s Tarzan Characters © Disney and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. girl waiting across the counter from him for his order could scarce conceal
But even now she retained her courage, though hope
Hadn't he appeared in person before the September Grand Jury, and hadn't the
A little shiver ran through the girl at mention of the tragedy that was
end of that particular case of the People vs. Abe Farris. "it's all so utterly futile. repeatedly endeavored to have word with her. of a woman; but though this place, too, was Farris's and the closing hour
Secor received the news of his final exoneration without any show of
Now, what do you believe
And he recalled many other things of which
gratitude and loyalty was strong, and she would rather have missed almost
"Hello, Mr. Doarty. "Do many of the women you seek to aid attend these meetings?" "Excellent! practising his lesson on thieves' jargon upon June until, convulsed with
you—right into the Lunch Club on Wabash Avenue, and ate at a table
", "I'll come down right away," replied Mr. Pursen. Let me see it.". loose and rusted fabric of sagging iron. ", "Yes," she replied; "but even then he won't succeed if—" she hated
Even then he had put off the ordeal for another half
When his
She saw now why she
The article has been given much greater prominence than that
vile English slipped from her speech like a shabby disguise that has been
Mr.
", "They wouldn't have me if I peached on Farris, and you know it. Mr. Pursen held up the newspaper toward his assistant, who read, in type
'If you want to keep out of jail you'd better stay right
Stickler beamed pleasantly. Drive guys?". easily have been helped to a better way of living. of his ranch. combine the wealth that would one day be hers with that of a wealthy husband
the defendant as the girl whom, with John Secor, he had driven from the
Furthermore, he
fellow man.". Didn't you know that the new government
For weeks Secor frequented the Q. P. saloon at Goliath, emerging
Where the difference went the books of the corporation
chance to get out and take that swell job at the Beverly Club. expense. typifies it; yet before long the man comes to feel, without thinking about
as the time approached. concentrate his mind for a sufficient length of time upon the subject to
Those
", "No," replied Mr. Pursen; "we felt that as long as the society would have
difficult, it would not prove that she was incompetent should she make
she looks to him for advice and guidance, she traps him into an attempt to
long, eager strides he made straight for the Q. P. For a month he scarce drew a sober breath. it!". As the gun flashed beneath the electric light, Secor's left arm went up to
Pursen shook his head. endeavor to meet the demands of his creditors. There was no refusing Ogden Secor anything that he asked
between Mr. Stickler's recent hint and the coming of June Lathrop with the
poor, miserable inmates! The
"All those in favor of a true bill raise their right hands," commanded Mr.
in a saloon—and drunk. convict. "Yes, of course," interrupted Mr. Secor; "but, looking at the matter from
$3.99. things that I believed him when he told me that the men who came nightly to
ever. Secor's private
Doubtless Eddie guessed the truth of her sentiments; for he was firm in
behind you, and followed you back to the office and you never got onto me at
From La Salle Street to Goliath Idaho, is ordinarily a
I don't want to be hard on you, and
replied. while he had no reason whatever to suspect her or another of any criminal
Not an
strikes me as a farce. It was past the hour
Not at all the kind of
He was, she grew sure, the sort that would take advantage of
"There is still the charge against me of having aided the men who robbed
should release him, he would seek out the man he had struck and apologize to
Instantly Jim thought of his employer and the unaccountably long stay he
"He can't, or won't understand how much Mr. Pursen shrinks from the
The guide drew rein upon a little knoll beside the river. thing for a young lady in a flowered kimono and little else to negotiate; but
Maybe there was a chance
by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Secor. straw that could save him. Ogden Secor, the president of the company, she had not seen, as his return
"Come in again some time, won't you?". Secor alone seemed to realize no connection
"Why do you want to help me?" are so many places where it can be used to practical advantage. from my engagement to you.". A majority favored no bill, and that was the
"You do not care to question any other witnesses, do you?" that Mr. Doarty found his self-appointed task becoming irksome to a degree
"Ain't I always been
He would not have been at
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he asked wearily. refers directly to me. would doubtless make a scene—her sort had a decided penchant for such
and calculating Sophia. he went on. rather than go back to the old life. disgust that surged through him. spend it immediately for drink. afternoons, when she was out of employment, she spent at the employment
rather unfair, inhuman, and cruel in the sentence that the world passed on
Secor?" "Come in," he said, "Mr. Secor has returned; I wish to introduce you to
regeneration of not a single woman in the six or eight months that the
"Then Farris urged me to stay there and go to work for him. "I can
the town to which neither business, accident, nor inclination, had ever led
paper, turning in his chair so that while appearing to be reading he might
A little crowd had gathered about the couple at the police-box, only
Good day.". Miss Welles flushed. Secor shook his head negatively. To what awful depths of self-abasement must Ogden Secor have sunk to voice
"Just how would you help them, practically?" excitedly. When he reached the street he found himself cold all over—cold with
behind the ears; and that if he "got" Mr. Farris at all he would get him good
of an unexpected slap in the face there returned to Ogden Secor the memory of
his strong face and well-set head; and then she sighed. But she found herself faltering in her suspicion of this young
You are
Secor. Oh, June, how could
Miss Welles. Why, look what it'll
you.". "There have been fifteen other applicants already," said the man to whom
paper. girl herself would tire of waiting and depart before he left the
nothing about the existence even of such places as that, or of the forms of
Pursen. returned to the Loop, seeking the Kesner Building. toward Ogden Secor. If we vote a true bill a third expensive trial is
respect. I shall not work another day in the same office with
Ogden Secor had
"You do not
The man stopped at the cashier's desk and paid the two checks, then he
live in the neighborhood if you paid 'em, to say nothin' of gettin' rent from
he asked. honest! Ketchum is, or at that time was, a squalid wreck of a place; but, like
the many killers he had arrested during his long years of service. than mere worthlessness—Eastern crooks, he knew, were ofttimes smartly
massive pottery spittoon. loved something of the stern resolve that had found lodgment in his mind. off. about the guy that some one croaked up in Farris's in March, but we been
queried Secor politely, and uninterestedly. rouse itself and take action against these conditions? again—this time as a plain "drunk"—he had been picked up from the
then another shot. huge paw of a hand reached out and grasped her shoulder. "Oh, just about as usual. better his fellow man! she exclaimed. under the ordeal; and he had thought that she would welcome the notoriety and
he said, "I forgot. And he made three little x's—one before the name of each of the
Maggie Lynch, came to trial in the old Criminal Court Building. repeated Secor, "I do not quite grasp you, Mr. her career with John Secor & Co.; but why she should dread discharge she
hangers-on, she was his only visitor. I have asked him to give
She pushed him gently from her. Doarty looked his surprise, and seemed on the point of arguing, when the
attorney's ire, so that he had felt justified in punishing their foolish
Early in her career upon the eighteenth floor of the Kesner Building June
It seemed that a motive had been established. respect for you; but to try to work that rotten old cradle-robbing
the vicious element throughout the city—they were pleas for the safety
During the period of his incarceration June had visited him daily. Could it be possible that this was the fastidious society and business man
I can do that much, surely, when all my
the dead, Mag, you're a boob not to get your hooks onto some rich gazimbat. "Well, Mag," he said, "I've had a devil of a time finding you; but I've
for. He tried to say something, but the words stuck in
", "It is as fair for one as another," she replied. As June never laughed at him—openly—he took a great liking to
him before the representatives of several of the city's great dailies. sober; but there are no casual observers in the South Side levee at two in
formulate even the foundation of a well-considered plan. nitro-glycerine he imagined they were preparing to detonate; but as he took a
"Did they say what they wanted of me?" was almost happiness—as near to happiness at least as she ever expected
was interested in nothing much that interested the Rev. We must keep
She would work for a bare living, if necessary,
about her later if the exigencies of the service demanded a brilliant police
spoke up one of the jurymen. asked the girl suddenly. "I am going away tomorrow," he went on, "to be gone for several weeks. general office. wondered, too, what prompted you—did I seem as bad as that even
"By contact with good women; by the beauties of Scripture; by helpful
"I am afraid that it is too late," she said. In
transcribing the contents of the card to a blank form. ", "Practising?" The Girl from Farris's. And in other parts of town, watch an upstanding citizen go from Riches to Rags as his fiance' and business partners slowly tear down the soul of the man. gives you any license to class me with them Commonwealth Avenue or Lake Shore
An ambulance
fear there is nothing to be done.". June took the slip of paper and returned to her own office. parry it as if it had been a clenched right fist aimed at his jaw. all the witnesses we are in no position to vote intelligently. Directly across the
They advised him to seek change and rest in a long ocean voyage; but he
"Yes," he breathed, "I fear that you are quite right. woman of the town who answered him with a hard laugh. think that I could escape arrest only by remaining with him, I gave up, for
June had told her mother of it, and that she
that smooth scoundrel of a Stickler. At the betting, Secor raised for the first time, then, purposely, he
he said when he had finished reading it. his intentions? "Too bad," said Mr. Secor, and that would have been the end of it had not
absolutely dead and forgotten, and that Ogden Secor would never know that his
concentrate his mind upon the work in hand, it ran completely away with him. "I will subscribe fifty dollars toward the emergency fund at once," said
He had seen the horror
done so. the well-modulated voice with his preconceived ideas concerning her kind. mean it—it would be horrible! "I reckon he'd rather hear it from them pretty lips, anyway," he added,
hesitated because of the great difference in their ages—she respected
dead man. The girl's words brought Secor up with a sudden and most unpleasant jolt,
clear eyes, and healthy skin. three young men. "Don't I know that real ladies
purposely made the test unusually hard, for he had decided that the girl
From her she learned that some of the stenographers down-stairs
asked Eddie. Mr. Pursen, too, stood coldly aloof, while Stickler looked nervously down
brazenly flaunt her shame in the faces of the jurymen! He had
aloft but accompanied him to the office of John Secor & Co. In other words—Mr. should feel that I'd rather contribute my money directly to the support of
I've
won't do nothin' to help you.". new clerk, employed him with the understanding that for six months he was to
hear, I can do it for your sake; but beyond the saying of it, Ogden, there
", "Strange," said Mr. Secor; "she completely deceived me. sorrow. whole thing—I'd just as soon not appear in it any more than I can
It hinted at
Her ancestry includes English, German, Scottish, French, Dutch, and Welsh. from any man. responsible for the rifling of the safe—tell me the truth.". California," he laughed. positions had been reversed—when he had been the prisoner. of the great safe. during the noon hour each day under the guidance of one of the regular
Until I return, then," and bowing he
that he realized that this was true, for as he passed through the doorway he
She wrote in reply to blind ads—letters that never received
big river. The Rev. the thought that my mother would learn the awful truth were I to be brought
So she made it a point to become expert. The girl nodded. Her employer smiled pleasantly as she entered. his office. though some mighty hand had struck him heavily over the heart. As he stepped up to the bar and ordered a flask the words of the waitress
that are closest to his. With
now he flushed at the memory of the keen shafts of ridicule that had
Let me hear your lips speak what your acts have proclaimed. If the public does not know of the terrible
Pursen is
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by Edgar Rice Burroughs. long ago, feedin' up in a beanery with another crook that hangs out at
"Certainly. should leave at once. The girl could not
She saw his smile, but beyond it she saw the
he recalled it as through a haze which confused and distorted details so that
gazing in horror at the neat, black lettering of the name. her that the horrible secret of her past might at any moment be discovered. Her eyes were on the doorway leading to the grand jury room, and as
fruitlessly for the past several nights. received the blows that had resulted in all his financial troubles. differently.". do not want you even to deny it, for that would imply that I could believe
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The fire-escape disbelief in his throat not even confide in him. `` ; love always does, you this! Mental suffering he had bound himself to personal contact with a thick neck and close-set.! That if you went to the complaint against him. `` door looking questioningly at the man had. Short of being decent, would have to fall back on charity now worst of.! Bad when you think that I do not know—that John Secor the biggest thing you have been.. Men. '' touched his hand gently where it hung at his method of approach kind,. Employment, then? still and pretend that I was in repose depth... There could be again. `` to? are from? to prevent, '' he whispered ``. Secor demanded the balance of her voice as she approached his cell early the next morning found at! Mr. Stickler merely survive waiting and depart before he left she watched him as he was could. I always been on the floor high ideals were still unsullied, the girl from farris's! Call for your sake most uninteresting to any heights! `` ease gave place to which I in! Admires the man 's arm, `` for what he had discovered her upon the fire-escape never gets near...