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a wounded bird that had" fallen to the ground. Reker looked at the girl. She didn't look like one that was in "the game." There was nothing, in her dress that suggested the over-dressed "pro fessional." But there a quiet dignity in her general appearance. "What's your story," Reker asked her. And the tenderness in his voice was the first bright spot in the entire proceedings .to the girl. "I came here from Indiana two years ago," the girl narrated. "I got a job in The Fair, but I couldn't live on tne wages. A girl tola me l could make more working as a wait ress. So I got a job on the West Side. I have worked in restaurants ever since. There wa3 only two things I could do that were honest, work in a restaurant or a department store. And the former was a little bit bet ter than the latter. "A few months ago I got a job at Childs'. I heard so much about the wealth of the Childs' string of restau rants that I thought it would be a good thing to work at one of them. I found Childs' to be one of the worst places in the city. I got $7 a week there and no tips. I couldn't stand it very long. "By this time I had neared the end of my rope. My clothes were getting shabby. I owed room rent. I was getting desperate. If I went out with men they noticed that my clothes were old and thought that I would listen to whatever they wanted to propose in order to get better clothes. But I tried. And some times I prayed for strength to hold up. "I got so that I shunned every one. I found that most men wanted to make a plaything of me, and I didn't want to go out with girls. They were always dressed so much better than I was. "And then Billy Burns came into my life. He brought with him some thing new. Some new appreciation other men. Life took on a' new? meaning. I loved him. "We were going to get married. And I know Billy was on the square. But he lost his job. Both our ex penses were high. Then Billy asked me to come and live "with him and when he got -a job we'd be married. "And" the girl's voice weakened "I did as he asked. I went to live with him. That's all." Reker looked up at the judge. "I don't care to prosecute this girl, your honor," he said. , "Occasionally there comes into this court girlg like this, fine girls who might havemade fine wives and daughters. But they've been beaten down without ever get ting a chance. I move we dismiss Margaret Smith." Judge Hopkins smiled in sympathy"' as he released the girl. o o - SOME MEXICAN DOPE Paiacio Gomez, Mex., April 11. Fighting, eclipsing in intensity and brutality even that which marked the original assault on Torreon, is in progress at San Pedro, near Torreon. The combined forces of the Mex ican federals are in a desperate grap ple with Villa's main force. If the federals win Villa will be forced to relinquish Torreon. Chaotic conditions prevail in the captured city. Villa has promised protection for all foreigners, but con tinues to deport Spaniards and con fiscate their property. Washington. The situation at Tampico is still serious. Sec'y of the Navy Daniels hais transmitted to the president Admiral Mayo's report of the arrest of an officer and squad of marines by the federals. Huerta apologized for the act, and ordered their release. o o ' J ENOUGH "John, ever -since we've been mar ried you've never seemed jthe same. What did I do to you?" "You married me." t of me that I had ne.yer found ,in 1