THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG = 3! M1 gi THAT YEAR OF FREEDO BY MILDRED BARBOCR THE TOOL TR VE conscious of what was going on about " baat? her. There were staring, curious faces, | I thought so! \ vim £ ini & ik . grim faces of the attendants, a corpul- | N n rd 1 v . a i The policeman regarded the find | ent, red-faced man in uniform behind | that the laprobe had concealed with a high desk, who bawled things at her | triumphant satisfaction. { and Devitt. She was shringingly con- | Evea Nan, cold with terror, could | scious of an official hand close to her| ; {el - 8 r 1 iswering | read the glaring label on vne of the i Seow She heard paling i 3 i i , af 3 impatient repe- bottles that the carelessly WIApPINg re- | titions, and knew that her voice was vealed. It said, in bold, black letters: shaking and scarcely audible. In the WHITE HORSE--Scotch. | midst of it all, she caught herself won She glanced quickly at Devitt He | dering ireievantly how a guilty en : : : j son would feel, if innocence made one was staring straigh , his mouth | 4s " as ari gs aig t ahead, his mouth {as terrified as she. drawn into a grim line. | Accommodation to | Europe on the famous Canadian Pacific Steamships ("Em presses" or Mono- class.) Make reserva- tions now to avoid disappointment. A -- TN Lr "I had my suspicions all right and when I saw this girl" Devitt broke in quickly. "She knew nothing about'it." She's innocent--just a friedd I was taking | After what seemed an endless delay, while she sat fighting for self control, j her hat brim pulled as low over her j eyes as she could manage it, and her | chin sunk concealingly into the fur collar of her wrap, she found that she { was to be allowed to obtain bail for for a drive," yd . 3 3 "A friend who probably draped that | Devitt--if she could. For herseif there Taprobe so niitily over them bottles," | Was to be only a fine in view of her the officer added grimly. "I seen her | innocence, which no amount of ques- before in a party where there was | Honing could break down. It would booze. Last week, wasn't t?" he de ! take every penny she had in the world manded of Nan. "Was it you furnish. i to get herself free and where to find ed your boy friends with hootch that | the necessary funds for Devitt, was a that if hubby was Invited to the family washing or to stick while was being done he say, George do it" Our is to ane of our electric take the soil out NE might?" Devitt was staring. Nan explained desperately. : "Sure. She's always innocent. It's a fine thing to be a lady." The police- man swung himself into the car. "Drive to the Second Precinct and For the second time, Nan found herself going to the station house ac- companied by an officer of the law. She was ready to faint with fright and humiliation. "I tell you the 'girl's innocent," Devitt tossed over his shoulder as he threaded his way through the traffic. "Aw, tell it to Sweeney," the officer returned in disgust. "Do you mean to tell me you could put that stuff in the car without her lamping it." "I took her for a walk while it was being loaded--" "Yeah," scornfully, "and where did you say it was loaded?" Devitt's lips closed hard. "I've said enough." "You'll say a lot more, young man, when the sergeant starts to talk to you," the officer promised. Out of the corner of his mouth, De- mind, no funay business, young man." | | where he secured patrons. Her pres. | ence in his cat allayed suspicion of | anything more | young man taking his best girl out to | drive. Engine and fire trouble proved | adequate excuse for the stops at the | garages where he loaded his contra- | problem that overwhelmed her with its | hopelessness. | Apparently he had no money where { it could be reached. He didn't want { her, for some reason, to appeal to the { managers of the cabarets he served. { Little by little, as she sat there waft {ing for the winding up of the red tape | of the law, everything became clear { to her. Devitt's befriending of her, his | presence cach evening in the cabarets, | the inexhaustible flask, the myster- | ious drives in the country and the per- { petual break downs of his car, neces- | sitating stopping at country garages-- it wis all a part of his clever, bootlegg- | ing scheme, | She, pretty, young, refined, as far- { removed in appearance from the under- } world as the poles, had béen a blind for This activities. His careful chaperon- | age of her had provided excuse for his | nightly presence at the restaurants sinister than a nice J | where she was ever to raise money | protested her innocence so that she vitt said to Nan:-- . | band, from what source, Nan never "Can you get bail for us both? For | knew. : heaven's sake don't let the bosses 4 i know I'm pinched, if you can gies She, innocent, trusting, grateful for it some other way. Because if anything | ais Jiendship, had heen his H5hethe) happens at the two places, they'll hook | $d of a da aferous mdus Gh . it onto me and fny goose 'Il be cooked And now, disillusioned, hating him, for good." fearing him, she had to find a means of "Hey, what's this?" the policeman | getting him out of his trouble. She { leaned menacingly between them, but | was afraid to refuse: He could, if he { Nan had caught Devitt's hurried words. | chose--and she was beginning to rea- | She nodded, wondering desperately | lize his unscrupulousness even if he had f for bail, even if there was a possibility | might go free to rescue him--incrim- | of her getting out. inate her falsely, but inexorably. 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