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Douglas County Sentinel Friday JANUARY 14. i?jt
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SomehowGood
By RHODA WALWORTH
(Copyright, 1919, by Western Newspaper Chios.)
In jail, out of jail, for a mouth lux
uriating on the results of a house
breaking raid, and for the rest of the
year hiding, half-famished, from the of
ficers of the law; in Jail, out of Jail—
that about comprised a ten-years’ rec
ord for Dan Bentley. It hardly paid,
he decided during his last spell of im
prisonment, and when he once more
breathed the free air he was deter
mined to reform.
That resolution was severely tested.
He had no money, his attire suggested
tin* tramp, and at the end of a week
lie knocked about from pillar to post.
Behold the discouraged item of hu-
manlty standing at tlie rear fence of
a residence: Ills eyes fixed upon a suit
of clothes, hung over a line to air.
“I don’t want them to sell, and use
up the money in drink,” philosophized
Dan; “my motive is good. Dressed in
those togs, looking half-respectable, I
stand double the chance of getting
work. I’ve a right to them us the
means of starting me on the right
road, and • It’s true charity for their
owner to let me tuke them.”
Dan entered the >yard, shrewdly
scanned his environment, removed the
suit of clothes from the line, and
nimbly put back for the alley. Across
it was an old, abandoned barn. Into
it Dan darted, and proceeded to cam
ouflage his habitual personality. lie
lmd not discovered that lie was ob
served by a man who looked from the
window of the house. The latter came
out at its rear door, crossed to the
barn, waited outside until Dan ap
peared, rehabilitated, und faced him
with a smile.
“Well, my friend, n perfect fit, eh?”
he spoke. Dan, abashed, stood silent
and confounded.
“I suppose its the jug!” he mut
tered.
“Why?” gently and persuasively in
terrogated the other, mild of manner,
pleasantly Inviting confidence, and
Dnn blurted out Ills history and mo
tives.
“No money, I infer?” propounded
his almoner sympathizlngly. “Here,”
and he extended a bank bill. “Now
you’re on your feet; don’t fall.”
“Say!” said Dan, then choked up.
The other extended a friendly hand.
“I believe In you,” he said. “Some
how be good. Don’t disappoint me. If
you don’t make it, come and get an
other loan. Front door this Lime—I’m
Vincent Clevering.”
“It’s a dream!” gulped Dnn ns he
slowly left the spot. “A real man at
last; the first I’ve met. ‘Vincent Clever
ing’—I’ll remember that nnpie, and I’ll
beat the drink and thievery or die In
the attempt!”
Two evenings later Dnn fnced a
problem that considerably distracted
him. In a pocket of the suit he had
appropriated he found a card. It bore
a name familiar to him, “Nora I’aley,”
and an address.
“It can’t be possible that a mnn like
Mr. Clevering knows her I” he solilo
quized. “If he does, it isn’t for his
good, that is certain. I’m going to look
into Ibis.”
And this was what Dan found out:
Vincent Clevering was a young man of
wealth and position, given to kindly
deeds, and engaged to a beautiful girl,
a social favorite, also’ Interested in
philanthropy. Ills indulgence towards
Dnn was characteristic, of him.
And Nora I’aley? Dnn had known
her in the past as one of the most dan
gerous of woman schemers and swin
dlers in criminal classes. lie investigat
ed, to find the woman posing as a poor
seamstress in u wretched tenement
house.
“Keep up your role,” Dan overheard
her accomplice direct her. “We’ll
spring the trap just about his wedding
day. Rather than have a sensation in
the newspapers lie’ll give up a few
thousands. You have preserved the
notes he wrote you?”
“Yes, but they merely inform me
where I can apply for work, or tell me
that he has paid my room rent.”
Shocked, incredulous, alarmed, Vin
cent Clevering one day sat lost in
thought after a stranger had visited
him. This was the accomplice of Nora.
Without any evasion ns to his black
mailing motive, this miscreant threat
ened to enmesh him In a scandal that
would give him unenviable publicity,
unless he submitted to extortion. The
amazed Clevering was sitting, stunned
by these disclosures, when Dan Bent
ley was shown into his presence.
“I’ve something to tell you,” an
nounced the loyal fellow, “and I’ve
something to give you." And he told
of his knowledge of the plot against
Clevering, and handed him an envelope.
“There is my affidavit,” he explained,
“proving the real character of Nora
Paley. There is also a signed letter
directed to her, threatening to expose
her to the police for a theft of which
I was s nlso guilty. When her g6-be-
tween comes after his expected money
tomorrow, simply hand him those doc
uments. I will guarantee results.”
Vincent Clevering followed out the
instructions given. Nora I’aley and
her accomplice faded from view
promptly. And the happiest moment of
Dan Bentley’s life was that when lie
stood outside of a house ablaze with
light and luxury where a wedding was
in progress. And the bridegroom was
the man who had helped and encour
aged him at a dark hour In his career,
and Dan Bentley was glad because he
had truly proved himself “somehow
good.”
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