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Daysey Mayme
and Her Folks
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE.
x THE ETERNAL QUESTION.
rrxHE friends of a married woman
| meet her for the first time izi
years, and they ask her a ques
tion like this:
"How many children have you now?”
If she says "Eight!” some friends ex
claim, in tones of horror. "Well, why
on earth did you have so many?”
Other friends, who are extremely old
fashioned. and therefore rare, say in
pious tones. "Well, the Lord HAS been
good to you!”
Which leaves the mother of eight
without a word to say.
But when friends of a spin, meet her
for the first time in years, they ask in
the tones of one who knows. “How does
it happen you have never married?"
It is the eternal question every spin,
meets on every eternal occasion, and
the degree of pity in which it is asked
never varies, the mother of eight ex
pressing as much pity as the mother
of one.
Daysey Mayme Appleton has met this
question every day since she passed
’ twenty-five. Let it be known to her
credit that she, never looked at her
married friends with a question of
amaze, and replied with the question,
"How does it happen YOU have?”
She Makes Up Her Mind.
But recently ghe made up her mind
she would answer the eternal question.
She would tell the whole story.
She called on a friend, the mother of
nine. The mother of nine used a -baby's
dress to wipe molasses candy off a
chair which she handed her caller.
She prepared to feed the youngest,
after slapping her seventh for pulling
the hair of the eighth, and giving the
eighth a cookie to-console it. Then she
sat back in her chair and looked with
pity at Daysey Mayme. "How does it
happen," she’asked, "that you nave
never married?”
Daysey Mayme was prepared.
"When I was nineteen," she began,
as one who has a long story to tell. “I
was engaged to Phil Barbeek, and he"—
"Stop teasing that cat!" screamed the
mother of nine. "And—Johnhy, if you
take another cooky from the jar I’ll
whip you.”
“Excuse me,” she said to her caller.
‘Now. do go on.”
“And he." resumed Daysey Mayme.
'didn't like it because I flirted with"- -
The mother of nine left her chair
abruptly, so abruptly that she 'deposited
the ninth on Daysey Mayme’s lap be- ,
fore it had finished its dinner. Which
made it set up a howl. She grabbed
her fifth by the arm. and her fourth by
one leg. and dragged them, screaming,
to the door, cu both as she pro
ceeded. Then she shut them out. and
returned to the ninth, who. however,
refused to be consoled because of the
interruption to its meal, and yelled
louder.
The mother of nine walked the floor
with it till it was quiet, and while she
walked Daysey Mayme’s answer to the
eternal question proceeded with inter
ruptions like these:
It Was Like This.
"another man. and (If it's the ice
qiarf, tell him to come tomorrow. I
haven't the change), so 1 broke the en
gage” (There, look at the way you've
torn your pants. I'll have to sit up all
night to mend them)— —"went, and
then there was Will" (Drat that
child, what is it screaming for now?)
"arbey, but" (No. I can t give
you a cent for candy. It is all I can do
to get money out of your father for
necessities, without such foolishness)
-——etc., etc., for two hours, when Day
sey Mayme left, with her story still un
told.
' How does it happen you have never
married?” remains a question she has
never answered.
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“THE GATES OF SILENCE” * By META SIMMINS ’ s ‘- AUTHOR OF “HUSHED UP” •
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TODAY'S INSTALLMENT. i
So the days passed, and the weeks
lengthened into months, until just—as it
seemed to him- when he had got to that
stage of his prison life when the outer
world had become more or less of an ab
straction. and the inner life of the prison
a more or less numb pain, the news came
to him that for some reason his time of
probation had been shortened, and that,
instead of spending the probationary nine
months at Wormwood Scrubs, he was to
be drafted off at the end of the third to
one of the regular convict establishments.
» « «
The thought of the journey from Don
don to Bilmouth—which, after the veil of
mysterious secrecy which Is characteristic
of prison discipline in such matters was
withdrawn, he finally learned was his
destination -did not, oddly enough, fill
•lack Rlmington with any sense of shrink
ing. On the contrary, he fell a certain
quickening of interest in him under the
crust of apathy that every day had
seemed to be hardening upon his heart.
To leave this whitewashed cell, to
breathe air that was not the contami
nated aii‘ of a prison exercise yard, to see
green grass that was not overshadowed
by prison walls —perhaps to hear birds
sing: the more he let his imaginative
play over the pitiful fact of his journey
from one place of degradation to another
the more Rirpington's excitement grew.
For all the pain that in accomplishment
it cost him, perhaps this change saved
him his reason, or at'least arrested that
mental degeneration that was undoubtedly
in progress.
During the first weeks of his impris
onment his tnfnd had wrestled with the
problem of the crime of which lie was
accused until his brain had reeled.
Who had killed Fitistephen?
He had forced himself to face the facts
of the money lender's death from every
I point of view, to callously fix the guilt
| upon first one and then another. Betty,
! even a crime of madness: the man who
I had escaped prison and the death of
j the rope to die at the hands of Anthony
Barrington; Paul Saxe himself. For a
time the conviction of Saxe’s implication
in the crime was so strong as to induce
that paroxysm of despair in which all
things solid had slipped from beneath his
feet; but gradually the conviction had
died, it was not Paul Saxe. It was not
Betty; no, never again would that
thought cross his mind! The weary
treadmill of his thoughts had never
brought him any nearer to a solution, a
clew or a hope, and gradually the
thoughts and wonderings and mental
strivings had ceased.
Even the glad vision that had some
times comforted and sometimes mad
dened him, when he Jiad seen in imagi
nation his cell door flung open and a
remorseful governor come to inform him
that the criminal had confessed, and
that he was free—even that had passed
also. He had begun to acquiesce in
his lot —begun to settle down to be a
number, a man without a name, a small
nut or rivet in a vast and complicated
piece of machinery, when just in lime had
come the merciful awakening of the
change to Bilmouth.
"The shame of motlei
That was the phrase that dame to Rim
ington's mind when he saw his fellow
travelers collected and himself mirrored
in the person of each one of them. The
hideous prison garb, marked ironically
with the symbols of swift flight, the
ringed stockings and the great hoots.
He felt sick with shame at the sight of
them, familiar as it was To be linked
to these men with the shaven heads and
the evil, degraded faces, chained to them,
and paraded for all the world to see A
rare sight to be pointed out to fortunate
children on station platform,. to be jeered
al. perhaps spat upon, by the virtuous
free! In his cell, thinking of this jour
ney. Rlmington had thought of none of
these things Now the thought of them
was to poison every moment of what had
loomed up as a great and glorious event
in his life.
He dreaded lest any one should recog
nize him as he stood in his infamous
garb, waiting beside the train, while
about him his companions laughed and
joked and made the most of this mo
ment of comparative freedom He need
not have feared; even Betty herself might
have looked twice at the tall figure, a
I little bowed about the shoulders already,
without recognizing in this clown with
the shaven head and the white, drawn
face the handsome boy who had taught '
her the first lesson of love under the
overhanging trees of a Thames backwa
ter only a few fUi.ort months ago.
He was thankful when at last the train
moved out from the station, thankful for
the roar and rattle of the train after the
silence of his cell, thankful even for the
coarse laughter and conversation of his
companions, the sound of human voices
upraised in something that was not an
order or a reproof; thankful to be herded
with those to whose level the law had
reduced him, out of sight of the shocked
or horrified or gloating eyes of the free.
The train rushed on with its burden of
the living dead, through the mean pur
lieus of the great city, past suburban gar
dens ablaze with autumn flowers, out
through the wide spaces of the open coun
try i/ its glorious livery of red and gold.
Overhead the wide spaces of the sky.
about him the smiling, flying fields of an
English countryside, before him the gray,
desolate, hilly stretches? of the peninsula
of Bilmouth, bleak and treeless; with its
vast gray quarries and its huge, unlovely
fortresses where, in a world of silence,
men work out the expiation of their sins
When the gang of convicts alighted
from tiie train a damp mist was blowing
up from the channel. Chill and penetrat
ing. it.struck home to Rimingtnn’s heart;
yet the shiver that ran over him was not
wholly phvsical. The desolate, cheerless
aspect of the place seemed as though it
might have been created for a convict
settlement, so desolate was it, so olainly
was the blight of formalism over every
thing. The exquisitely kept roads stretch
ing to the va*»i prison, the mighty cliffs,
even the magnificent sweep of the bay
veiled in the gray mist seemed to em
phasize the fact that this was. a place
where Nature herself had made an im-
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passable barrier bet.veen Hie fettered I
an J the free.
Here the prison gates opened daily and '
belched forth their stream of slaves, the i
men who quarried these stones and made j
these roads. Their blight seemed over ;
everything, Rimington thought—the pris- I
on blight that kills all that is beautiful ,
and bright and free in the hearts of
men.
When, for the third time in his life,
he passed behind the second great Inner
gates of a prison and heard them clang
hehin.l 1 im. here more than ewr
he realized tliat he was sli n: in by yates
of silence into a world of silence, a world
of ghostly formalism peopled by silent
shapes in the hideous livery of degrada
tion, a world that might have been, that
was for all practical purposes cut off from
the world of the living by thousands upon
thousands of miles. “That it may please
Thee to show Thy pity upon all prison
ers and captives—" How many who hear
that intoned Sunday after Sunday in the
churches of England cast a thought to
the thousand nameless men in one penal
establishment alone?
Was there one in the world of the liv
ing thinking of him now—-’was there one?
Apart from this air of chill and gloom,
there was nothing to mark particularly
this prison of Bilmouth. to which he had
come from the other lie had left. He had
beard from his fellow-prisoners on the
train-" vaguely he remembered having
read—that penal servitude at Bilmouth
was considered infinitely more severe than
at other prisons: that the climate in it
self constituted an additional punishment.
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! its keen air creating at appetite that
| tiie prison dietary was mctpable of sal
| isfy:ng. But so far the reception by the
i governor's deputy, the (to Rimington) un-
I speakable degradation of tiie bathing in
| the bathroom cubicles behind tiie wooden
I bars, beyond which tiie attendant waid
i erk paraded, to silence talking and admon-
I ish cleanliness; the scrutinizing of the
body for personal marks of identification,
and the medical examination were exactly
the same as those to which he had been
subjected before. He submitted himself
to authority; no one but a. fool or a mad
man would have dre-omed of doing other
wise -and heard himself, with a thrill
of relief and joy. certified as in sound
health That meant, he hoped, that he
would be drafted into the outdoor gangs.
Later, when his fresh clothes were given
to him. he knew that this was so, for
.there was a difference in the uniform
and the boots were heavier.
To woi'k outside! No more to be
penned into the little iron cubicle with
its stone floor, measuring seven feet by
four, but to wot 1.- to exercise his muscles
under the open spaces of the sky. Thank
heaven for that. There were sulkers and
complalners all around him. men who
knew the awful sharpening effect of the
Bilmouth air, that makes a man so hun
gry all his days: but in Rimington's heart
there was something that nearly ap
proached thankfulness He seemed to
know now that if lie. had been called upon
to go through his nine preliminary months
of solitary confinement he would have
gone mad.
A Woman Called Deborah.
As time passed this sense of thankful-
ness did noi tiie out of Riii im'> heari
The outside v/ml; w; hard. Ev i-v morn
ing at half-past 7 for ii was winter now
having he> :i in for two h< irs (ih’a<pris
on day begins in 5:.10i; laving already
done his meed us indoor toil, the cleaning
of Ills cell and its utensils; having break
fasted sparsely on in cocoa and eight
ounces of brown bread. Rimington. in
company with twenty others, forming a
squad, marclied briskly out through the
great gates, a w. leading ai.d a sen
try. with rille loaded and cocked; follow
ing. to begin his work in the cullings of
the quarry: but it was work that wearied
him and made sleep imperative; that
eased the gnawing pain in his hra’t and
brain by giving him, as it were, a tangi-
. ble'substance to fight and wrestle with.
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
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AN UNUSUAL GIRL.
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