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FIEARHT'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. DA. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 14, 191S.
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Wittiin the Law”
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‘ Dad, we re married. Mary and I were married this morning.”
M ARY TURNER, a six-dollar-aweek salesgirl In the store of Edward Glider, Is wrongfully accused
of theft In the store, convicted and sentenced to three years at Auburn. Gilder opposes the
suggestion of the Judge that clemency be shown and sentence suspended, and Insists that an
example be made of the girl. Declaring her Innocence and threatening to revenge herself on Glider,
the girl Is led away to prison.
Three years later she comes out and casta about for means to exact her revenge. Incidentally she
proceeds to make a good living In any way she can so long as she keeps "within the law," She finally en
snares Richard Glider, the young son of her former employer, and marries him secretly. After the
marrfage she comes to her room, while Richard runs to tell his father that he is married and secure the
paternal blessing. While waking for her old employer to arrive and receive his jolt, Mary receives a
visit from Burke and Domereet.
CHARACTERS IN THE SCENE.
EDWARD GII.DER Proprietor of “The Emporium”
RICHARD His
MARY TURNER < The girl
JOE GARSON A forger, friend of Mary’s since prison days
BURKE Headquarters man
DEMUREST District Attorney, formerly Gilder's attorney
little word, If?
DEMBREST
what do T owe the pleasure. In
I’ve come for a few quiet .words
M ary—To
specter?
burke
with you.
MARY—Then you don’t want Joe*
BURKE (signifleantly)-—Not— yet
GARSON—I'm much obliged.
MARY—Will you excuse us. Joe?
GARSON—But suppose they
MARY—Please.
GAR80N—All right. But If you want me Just call.
< Exits).
MARY—Ah. Mr. Demerest, It’s four yeara since I
saw you last and they’ve made you District Attorney
since then Allow me to congratulate you.
DEMEREST—There la a—where have I seen you.
MARY—Can't you guess? Try.
DEMEREST—Why, you're the girl—why, you're
the Mary Turner that Oh. I know you now
MARY—I'm the girl you mean, Mr. Demerest, but
you don’t know me at all.
BURKE—Young woman, the Twentieth Century
leaves the Grand Centra! at four o’clock. It arrives
In Chicago at eight fifty five to morrow morning.
You’ll Just have time to catch that trnin.
MARY—U’orklng for the New York Central now?
BURKE—I’m working for the good of New York
City.
MARY—Since when?
DEMEREST—I think a different tone will aerve you
better.
RURKE—Oh. let her talk, she's only got a few
minutes, anyway
MARY—Let's be comfortable, then
RURKE You’d better he packing your trunk?
MARY—Why? I’m not going away!
BURKE—On the Twentieth Century this afternoon.
MARY—Oh! dear no!
BURKE—I say yea
MARY—T thought yon wanted quiet words
BURKE—Now, look here. Mollle
MARY Miss Turner, if you please, for the present,
anyway.,
BURKE—I’m glvln' yon yonr orders. You’ll go to
Chicago, or you’ll go up the river.
MARY—If you can convict me—notice that nice
I did once, remember.
MARY—Rut you can’t, do It again.
RTJRKE -How do yon know he ean’tT
MARY—Because if he could you’d have had me In
prison some time ago.
BURKE—I've seen ’em go up pretty easy
MARY—The poor ones, yes—but not those who
have money, and I have money now
BURKE—Money you stole.
MARY—Oh, dear no
BURKE What about that thirty thousand you got
in thnt partnership swindle? 1 suppose you didn't
steal that?
MARY—Certainly not' \ man advertised for a
partner in a business sure to bring large and safe re
turns. r answered that advertisement. The business
the man proposed was to buy a tract of land and sub
divide it. The deeds to the land were all forged and
the supposed seller was his con federate with whom
he was supposed to divide my money. We formed a
partnership with a capital of sixty thousand dollars—
he put the money in the bank and I promptly drew It
out. He wanted to get my money Illegally, Instead
of which I managed to get his legally, for It was legal,
wasn’t it, Mr. Demerest?
DEMEREST—Yes, unfortunately! A partner has
the right to draw out any or all of the partnership
funds.
MARY—And I was his partner. So you see you
wrong me. Inspector I'm not a swindler. I’m a
financier.
BURKE Yes Well, you'll never pull another one
on me, you can gamble on that
MARY Won’t IT Miss Lynch, at the present mo
ment, is painlessly extracting ten thousand dollars
from General Hastings, In a perfectly legal manner.
Inspector Burke.
BURKE—Oh, alia la. ehT Well, you may stay with
in the law, but you’ve got to get outside of this city.
On the level now, did you think you could got away
with that young Gilder scheme you’re planning?
MARY—What young Gilder scheme?
BURKE—That’s all right—I’m wise I’m wise
MARY—Yes you are.
BURKE—Once for all. you leave town this after
noon or you'll be in the Tombs In the morning.
MARY—It can’t be done, Inspector. It can’t be dona.
BURKE—Who says it can’t?
MARY—This. .(Nhowina popmr).
BURKE—And what’s—this.
MARY—A temporary restraining order from the
Supreme Court instructing you to leave me alone
until you have legal proof that I bare broken the
law.
BURKE—Another new one. But you can t do it
MARY—Oh, can’t I. A gambling house can get one
and go on breaking the law; a race track can get
one and laugh at the law; a railroad can restrain the
employes from striking. Why shouldn’t I get one,
too? I have money, I can buy all the law I want
There’s nothing you can’t do with the law If you
have money. Ask Mr. Demerest, he knows.
BURKE—Can you tie that? A crook appealing to
the law.
MARY—And getting Justice—that's the remarkable
part of It. Well, gentlemen, what are you going to
do about It?
BURKE—This Is what I’m going to do, one way or
the other. I’m going to get you.
DEMEREST—I’m going to appeal to your sense of
fair play.
MARY That was kRIed four years ago
. DEMEREST—Let young Glider alone.
MARY—HU father sent me away for three years,
and he has got to pay me.
RURKE—Don’t fool yourself, my girl, you can’t go
through with It. There’s always a weak link in the
chain somewhere, and I’m going to find It.
MARY—Now you sound really dangerous.
GARSON (at door)—Mary, I want to see you a
minute.
MARY- Excuse me, please
BURKE—Nothin’ doin’. Wbat is It?
GARSON—Something private.
BURKE Private things don’t go Out with It
MARY -Tell them, Joe. There’s nothing we need
be afraid of.
GARSON Old man Glider’s here.
BTJRKE Gilder!
DEMEREST—Here?
GARSON—That’s what I said
MARY—Have Mr. Gilder come In. Joe. It seems I
am having quite a number of distinguished callers
to day.
DEMEREST He shouldn’t have come Bqrka and
I will attend to this Mr. Gilder.
GILDER (enters and goes straight to Mary)—So
you are the woman?
MARY—I am the woman. What do you want?
GILDER—My son.
MARY—Have you seen him lately?
GILDER- -No.
MARY—Then why did yon come?
GILDER—Because I Intend to save my boy from a
great folly. I am Informed that he Is infatuated
with you, and Inspector Burke tells me—tells me
BURKE—I tell you she’s an ex-convict.
GILDER—Is thts true?
MARY—It is
BURKE—You’d better leave her to me. Now, see
here you
GIRDER—If you please, Inspector, (To Mary) Of
course you don’t really care for my son—eo how much
will you take to go away—how much?
MARY—I don’t want money. Inspector Burke can
tell you how easy It is for me to get It.
DEMEREST—If you'll permit me. Mr. Gilder
GILDER—I think this matter can be settled be
tween this woman nnd me Do you want my son to
learn what you are?
MARY—Why not? I'll tell him myself.
GILDER—A don’t want him to know. T’ve spared
the boy all his life. If he really loves yon——
DICK (entering)—I didn’t see father, but I left
him—(sees father). Hello, dad. you got my note?
GILDER—No, I’ve had no note.
DICK-—Then why—(looks at Burke and Demerest)
—what are they doing here?
MARY—Never mind them. Tell your father your
news.
DICK—Dad. we’re married. Mary and I were
married this morning
GILDER-What!
MARY—I married your son this morning. Do you
understand, Mr. Glider, I married him.
BURKE—It’s a frame-up! Tell your father it ain't
true. Why, do you know what she Is? She's done
time, nnd, by Heavens, she’ll do It again.
DICK—That's a lie. Mary, say It’s a lie
MARY—It’s the truth.
BURKE—What did I tell you?
DICK—You have
MARY—I have served three year*.
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GILDER—I wanted to save you from this.
DICK—But there’s a mistake.
DEMEREST—There Isn't.
DICK—I say there Is. Mary, say there's a mlstaks
—say there’s a mistake.
MARY—It’s all quite true.
GILDER—Do you see what you’ve done to my boy!
MARY—And what Is that compared to what you
have done to me.
GILDER—What have I done to you?
MARY—Do you remember what I said to you the
day you had me sent away?
GILDER—I don’t remember you at all.
MARY—Don’t you remember Mary Turner, who
was arrested four years ago for robbing your store,
who swore site was Innocent, and who would have got
off If you hadn’t asked the judge to make an ex
ample of her?
GILDER—You are that girl?
MARY—I am that girl. You helped smash my life,
you put me behind the bars, you owe me for all that,
and I have Just begun to collect.
GILDER—And that la why you married my boy?
MARY—It i».
DICK—It’s not.
BURKE—Now. see here
DICK—You keep out of this.
DEMERE8T—But Dicit
DICK—And you. This is my affair. You married
me because you loved me.
MARY—I didn’t.
DICK—And you love me now.
MARY—NO! NO!
DTCK—You love me now.
MARY—I don't.
DICK—Look me in the face and say that Look
me in the face and say that.
MARY—I don’t lore you.
DICK—Just the same, you're my wife and I’m
going to make you love me.
MARY—You can’t You're his son.
DICK—I’m going to make you love me. I don't
care what you .
have done. JjJ" /XOllfVW
burke — mWNixtamfmfj///
She is a
crook.
DICK — I
don’t care
what she's
been. (To
Mary.) D o
yon bear? I
don’t 'care
what you've
been. From
now on yon’l!
go straight
You will walk
the straight
est. line that
a woman
ever walked.
You will put
all thoughts
of revenge out
of your heart
because I am
going to make
you love me.
BURKE —
She’s no good,
I tell you.
She's a crook.
MARY—And
“Four Years Ago Yon Took Away
My Name and Gave Me a Number.'
If T am, who made me one? Yon
can't send a decent girl to prison and have her conn
out anything else.
BURKE—She didn't even get her time off for good
behavior.
MARY—And I'm proud of It. Do you know wha.
goes on behind those stone walls? Do you, Mr. Dts
trlct Attorney, whose business It is to send girl*
there? Do yon know what a girl Is expected to do sc
she can get ttme off for good behavior? If you don't
ask the keepers.
GILDER—And you?
MARY—I served every minute of my ttme—thret
full whole years. Do you wonder I want to get eve’,
—that some one has got to pay? Four years ago you
took away my name and gave me a number. Nov
I've given up that number and I've got your name.
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