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Don't talk—don't tas&r "Joe has talked," Burke said, signifl rsuitly. **He did it to protect me," she stated, wnestly. Tbe inspector disdained such futile wgament. As the doorman appeared 1b answer to the buzzer, he directed &mt the stenographer be summoned at vMKfc "We'll have the confession in due am hi." be remarked, gazing pleasedly «a tbe three before him. "He's not going to confess," Mary assisted. with spirit. Bat Burke disregarded lier complete ly, and spoke mechanically to Garson tfc* formal warniug required by tbe liv. **T«wa are hereby cautioned that any lUas you say may be used against jml1" Theu, as the stenographer en tered^, be went on with lively interest. •Mow, Joe!" let once again, Mary protested, a •ttte irtldly. "Don't speak, Joe! Don't say a word MU we can get a lawyer for you!" Huir man met her pleading eyes ateadily, and shook his head in refusal. "If* a© use, my girl," Burke broke tin tarshly. "1 told you I'd get you. Van going to try you and Garson, and whole gang for murder—yes, every «ae of you. Aud you. Gilder," he con Staned, lowering on tbe young man vfko bad defied liiui so obstinately, "yaafi go to the house of detention as a material witness." He turned his jjMfr to Garson agaiu. and spoke an fl&xfiatively: '"Come on now, Joe!" •Gareon went a step toward the desls .and spoke decisively. -flf come through, you'll let her jj»—-aad him?" he added as an after Ji&waght, with a nod toward Dick Oil ier. 'We'll get the best lawyers in the saraatry," Mary persisted desperately. •Well save you, Joe—we'll save you!" Sanson regarded the distraught girl wftb wistful eyes. But there was no 4t»c? of yielding iu his voice as he replied, though he spoke very sorrow fid!y. '*Ko, you can't help me," he said sixn glf- My time has come, Mary. And Bean save you a lot of trouble." MHe's ly. •'.i i: k\ W Rtt« £t.Vv life right there," Burke ejaculated. *We'7e got. him cold. So, what's the we of dragging you two into it?" Them they go clear?" Garson ex eagerly. "They ain't even to fee called as witnesses?" ^ao're on!" Burke agreed. '^Theoi, here goes!" Garson cried, and feofced expectantly toward the atenographer. "My name is Joe Garson." "AIia3?" Burke suggested. *AIias nothing!" came the sharp re* {bet "Carson's my uionaker. 1 shot Mtagi&b Eddie, because be was a attoait and a stool pigeon, and he got jfesfe w&at was coming to him." Vltu poratsoQ beyond the mere words beat fi his r&ice now. "Now, now!" Burke objected, severe "W« can't take a confession like |«at" 6arson shook his bead—spoke with larttr hatred. "Because he was a skunk and a •tool pigeon," he repeated. "Have you E it?" knd then, as the stenograph aodded assent, he wept on, less Tio Ifcattj "I croaked him just as he was gateg to call the bolls with a police wMMIe. I used a gun with smokeless jpnr£er. J^ lud a Marim allencer on 1 i?* ^X.rr*' 9 Bu MARVIN DANA FROM THE PLAY OF BAYARD VE1LLER Copyright, 1913, by the H. K. Fijr company. IVITH1N THE LAW it, so that it didn't make any noise." Garson paused, and the set despair of his features lightened a little. Into his voice came a tone of exultation in describably ghastly. It was born of the eternal egotism of the criminal, fat tening vanity in gloating over his iu genuity for evil. He stared at Burke with a quizzical grin crooking his lips. "Say," he exclaimed, "I'll bet it's the first time a guy was ever croaked with one of them things! Ain't it?" The inspector nodded affirmation. "Some class to that, eh?" Garson de manded, still with that grewsome air of boasting. "I got the gun and the Maxim silencer thing off a fence in Boston," he explained. "Say, that thing cost me $60, and it's worth every cent of the money. Why, they'll re member me as the first to spring one of them things, won't they?" "They sure will, Joe!" the inspector conceded. "Nobody knew I had it," Garson con tinued, dropping his braggart manner abruptly. At tbe words, Mary started, and her lips moved as if she were about to speak. "Nobody knew I had it—nobody in the world," he declared. "And no body bad anything to do with tbe kill* Ing but nie." "Was there any bad feeling between you and Eddie Griggs?" "Never till that very minute. Then I learned the truth about what he'd framed up witb you." Tbe speaker's poice reverted to its former fierceness In recollection of the treachery of one wbom be bad trusted. "He was a stool pigeon, and I hated him! That's all, and It's enough. And It's all true, so help me God!" The Inspector nodded dismissal to the stenographer, with an air of relief. "That's all, Williams," he said heav ily. "He'll sign It as soon as you've transcribed the notes." Then as the stenographer left the room Burke turned bis gaze on the woman, who stood there in a posture it complete dejection, her white, an guished face downcast. There was triumph In the inspector's voice as he addressed her, for his professional pride was full fed by this victory over iis foes. "Young woman." Burke said briskly, 'it's just like 1 told you. You can't i)eat the law. Garson thought he ould—aud now"— He broke off, with wave of his hand toward the man who had just sentenced himself to ieath in the electric chair. '•That's right," Garson agreed, with somber intensity. His eyes were grown clouded again now, and his voice drag god leaden. "That's right, Mary." he repeated dully, after a little pause. "You can't beat the law!" He hes itated a little, then went on. with a certain curious embarrassment. "And this same old law says a woman must stick to her man." The girl's eyes met his with passion ate sorrow in their misty deeps. Gar son gave a significant glance toward Dick Gilder, then his gaze returned to her. There was a smoldering despair in that look. There were, as well, an entreaty and a command. "So," he went on, "you must go aloug with him. Mary. Won't you? It's the best thing to do." The girl could not answer. There was a clutch on her throat just then, which would not relax at the call of her will. Of a sudden, an inspiration came to him, a means to snap the tension, to create a diversion wholly efficacious. He would turn to bis boasting again, would call upon his vanity, which he knew well as his chief foible, and make it serve as the foil against his love. "You want to cut out worrying,about me," he counseled, bravely. "Why, 1 ain't worrying any, myself—not a little bit! You see, it's something new I've pulled off. Nobody ever put over any thing like it before." He faced Burke with a grin of gloat ing agafn. "I'll bet there'll be a lot of stuff In the newspapers about this, and my pic ture, too, in most of 'em! What?" The man's manner imposed on Burke, though Mary felt the torment Aat his rainglorylng was meant to Sii v,-. .: ''s'" THE.wonbipok^-THURSD^ FEBRUARY MplUggLQ##-* *wr "Say," Garson coutlnued to the in spector, "if the reporters want any pictures of me could I have some new ones taken? The one you've got of me in the gallery is over ten years old. I've taken off my beard since then. Can I have a new oue?" "Sure you can, Joe. I'll send you up to the gallery right now." "Immense!" Garson cried boisterous ly. He moved toward Dick Gilder, walking with a faint suggestion of swagger to cover the nervous tremor that had seized him. "So long, young fellow," he exclaim ed and held out his hand. "You've been on the square, and I guess you always will be." Dick had no scruple in clasping that extended hand very warmly in his own. "We'll do what we can for you," he said simply. "That's all right," Garson replied, witb such carelessness of manner as he could contrive. Then at last he turned to Mary. This parting must be bitter, and he braced himself with all the vigors of bis will to combat the weakness that leaped from bis soul. As he came near the girl could hold herself In leash no longer. She threw herself on his breast. Her arms wreathed about his neck. Great sobs racked her. "Oh, Joe, Joe!" The gasping cry was of utter despair. Garson's trembling hand patted the girl's shoulder very softly, a caress of infinite tenderness. "That's all right," he murmured huskily. "That's all right, Mary." There was a short silence, and then be went on speaking more firmly. "You know, be'll look after you." He looked up over tbe girl's shoul der and beckoned with his head to Dick, who came forward. "Take good care of her, won't you?" He disengaged himself gently from the girl's embrace and set her within the arms of her husband, where she "That's all right. That's all right, Mary." rested quietly, as if unable to fight longer against fate's decree. "Well, so long!" He dared not utter another word, but turned blindly, and went, stum bling a little, toward the doorman, who had appeared in answer to the Inspector's call. "To the gallery," Burke ordered curtly. Garson went on without ever a. glance back. There was along silence in the room after Garson's passing. It was bro ken at last by tbe inspector, who got up from his chair and advanced to ward tbe husband and wife. In his hand he carried a sheet of paper, rough ly scrawled. As he stopped before the two and cleared his throat, Mary with' drew herself from Dick's arms and re garded the official with brooding eyea from out her white face. Burke extended the Cheat of paper to tbe bartend. ^There's a document," ho said staff* Ijr, Ifp a letter from one Helen Mor ris, In which she sets forth the Inter estlng fact that she polled off a theft In the Emporium, for which yonr Mrs. Gilder here did time. Ton know, your father got your Mrs. Gilder sent np for three years for that same Job— which she didn't do. That's why she bad such a grudge against your father and against the law too!" Burke chuckled, as tbe young man took the paper, wonderingly. "I don't know that I blame her much for that grudge, when all's said and done. You give that document to your father. It sets her right. He's a just man according to his lights, your fa ther. He'lJ do all he can to make things right for her, now he knows. Now, you two listen. I've got to go out a minute. Wheu I get back. I don't want to find anybody here—not any body! Do you get me?" When the official was gone, the two stood staring mutely each at the other through' long seconds. What she read in the man's eyes set the woman's heart to beating with a new delight. What he read in her eyes set the hus band's pulses to bounding. He opened his arms in an appeal that was a com mand. Mary went forward slowly, without hesitation, in a bliss that for got every sorrow for that blessed mo ment. and cast herself on his breast. THE END. Prophecies Not Fulfilled. That the year 1913 was to be a dolorous one was a prophecy made in November 1912, by a Frenchwo man long famous in her country as a prophetess. She bears the name of Madame de Thebes and is declared to have been a friend of General Boulanger, the younger Dumas, and other celebrated persons. It is said that Frenchwomen throng her domicile for predictions as to what the future has in store for them. The dire predictions she made last year appeared in an almanac that is well known to Parisians. It is in teresting to recall her forebodings at this time, since their importance was estimated at the time at so high a rate as to call for special telegrams to New York newspapers: "The marriage of the Queen of Luxemburg which will astound the world, damaging Frances interests politically. "Paris will be the sccne of a ter rible theatre fire. "The French troops will rush to the frontier. "The German Emperor may come to Paris, but not as a king. "The Pope will die. "Italy will witness a political up heaval and perhaps a new king. "The Prince of Wales will reign. "Bulgaria will play a stupendous role in Europe. "Nineteen hundred and thirteen, taken as a whole will be a bloody year." Not one of these predictions has come true, nor has anything happen ed to give a scmblance of the truth to any one of them. Unthinking persons might say that the predic tion for Bulgaria, that she "will play a stupendous role in Europe," has been fulfilled. They should remem ber, however, that Bulgaria's "stu pendous role" was played in 1912— had, in fact, already been played at the time when the predictions were made—and that in 1913 Bulgaria was submitted to the humiliation of losing to Roumania a valuable part of her northern territory, and acquir ing other lands bordering on the sea that are chiefly valuable to her as mountains and as lacking a seaport. —Literary Digest. The King of All Laxatives. For constipation, use Dr. King's New Life Pills. Paul Mathulka, of Buffalo, N. Y., says they are the "king of all laxatives. They are a blessing to all my family and I al ways keep a box at home." Get a box and get well again. Price 25c. At all druggists or by mail. H. E. Bucklen & Co., Philadelphia or St. Louis. Did the intense heat and long con tinued warm period last summer de stroy the egg-producing proclivities of the great American hen? Dealers in eggs and poultry sincerely believe that the pullets and laying hens were in some way affected by the heat of last summer. In no other way can dealers account for a short age of eggs under conditions which ordinarily would be considered ideal. The market ought to be glutted with eggs. Ordinarily a mild season like we have had would be regarded as just right for a swamp of eggs, yet there are no eggs in this part of the country to speak of. The demand is bigger than the supply. A woman wants a receipe for poli tics just like a soda biscuit. HEED THE WARNING. Many Leon people Have Done So. When the kidneys are Weak they give unmistakable warnings that should not be ignored. By examin ing the first sign of disorder, many days of suffering may be saved. Weak kidneys usually expel a rtark ill smelling urine, full of "brickdust" sediment and painful in passage. Sluggish kidneys often cause a dull pain in the small of the back, head aches, dizzy spells, tired, languid feelings and frequent rheumatic twinges. .. Doan's Kidney Pills are for the kidneys only. There is no better recommended remedy. Leon people endorse Doan Kid ney Pills. William Hinds, Leon, Iowa, says: 'I had a lame and weak back and my kidneys did not act regularly. I cot a box of Doan's Kidney Pills and they did me a world of good. I can now rest much better at night and my back is mach stronger." For sale by all dealers. Price 60 feotfc' Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo* York, sole agents for the United istaemlier tha jflnGPtak* no. oth«r PRELIMINARY NOTICE. Of Consideration for Passage of Pro posed Resolution of Necessity for Street Improvement. Notice is hereby given that at a 1 meeting of the city council of the city of Leon, Iowa, held on the 13th day of January, 1914, there was in troduced the Resolution of Necessity hereinafter set forth, which said resolution will be considered for pas sage by the city council at a meet ing to be held in the city hall at 7:30 o'clock p. m., on the 5th day of Feb ruary, 1914, at which time the own ers of the property subject to the assessment for the cost of the street improvement contemplated in said resolution may appear and make ob jections, if any they have, to the contemplated improvement and the passage of said proposed resolution of necessity, which resolution is as follows, to-wit:— Resolution, of Necessity. Be it resolved by the city council of the city of Leon, Iowa, on its own motion, that it is deemed advisable and necessary to improve by grading, curbing and paving the following streets and parts of streets located in the city of Leon, Iowa, to-wit: Section 1. On Main street from and connecting with pavement at 16th street south on Main street and on the Leon and Davis City road, to the north side of bridge on Pos sum Creek. Section 2. On Idaho street from and connecting with pavement at 9th street south to and connecting with pavement on Commercial street. Said street improvement shall be made and constructed of one, or more, of the following kind or kinds of material, to-wit: Bitulithic laid on cement concrete foundation Asphaltic concrete wear ing surface composed of select ed hard stone and the best grade of natural lake asphalt 2 inches in thickness laid on a Portland cement foundation No. 1 vitrified brick block laid on a cement concrete foundation. Curbs to be of Portland cement concrete Combination curb and gutter to be of Portland cement concrete, or gut ter to be of Portland cement con crete, asphaltic concrete, bitulithic, or No. 1 vitrified brick block with concrete foundation. The city coun cil to determine the kind or kinds of pavement, curbs, curbs and gut ters, or gutters, to be used, for each separate section or part of the work above enumerated. All of which grading, curbing and paving shall be done in accordance with plans and specifications to be prepared by the city engineer and approved by the city council. Be it further resolved, that the en tire cost of making said street im provement, including the cost of es timates, notices, inspection, prepara tion of the assessment and plat, the cost of paving, curbing and gutter ing, the intersections of streets and alleys crossings and one-half the cost of paving, curbing and gutter ing streets and alleys intersecting but not crossing, shall be assessed against the property abutting on and adjacent to the entire streets and parts of streets so paved, curb ed and guttered, in proportion to the benefits derived by said abutting and adjacent properties, and in ac the same. The city of Leon to pay the same. The city of Leon to pay the cost of extra grading and such oth er cost of Baid street improvement, if any, not included in the aforesaid cost and expense to .be assessed against abutting and adjacent prop erty except only, if any portion of the cost of said street improvement may not be lawfully assessed against abutting and adjacent property and the special assessment which may be levied against any lot or tract of land, shall be insufficient to pay the cost of said improvement, the de ficiences and costs thereof, if any, shall be paid from the city improve ment fund. The contractor who shall make said street improvement shall guarantee that the same will endure without need of repair for a period of five years from the date of its ac ceptance by the city. Be it further resolved, that when ever the contractor who shall make said street improvement shall have finished and fully completed, accord ing to contract, all of the streets and parts of streets herein above separately described and enumerated in any one of said paragraphs, num bered and designated as sections 1 and 2, and the same shall have been accepted by the city council the city shall proceed without unnecessary delay, and as by law provided, to make the levy for such streets and parts of streets, herein separately described, and so completed and ac cepted, and issue to said contractor the assessment certificates therefor, and shall also issue warrants upon the city improvement fund for such an amount, if any, as should be paid from said improvement fund -for such street improvement so complet ed and accepted. Dated at Leon, Iowa, this 13th day of January, 1914. S. G. MITCHELL, City Clerk of Leon, Iowa. Get the Weekly Inter-Ocean Free. 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