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bs tac sx Dec's letters becone mory $e They reach the point where "Ruth" has visited the judge and demanded a definite answer, Bither the judge goes to Nashinzton ard effects the release of ‘Dearest, Darling Daddy Mine’, or the consromisizns photographs will be sent to “Ruth's” friend, who works for the publisher of a tabloid newspaper. The judge, of soourse, is pleading for time. He besseches Ruth to have pationce, and assures her he will have Bob's friend out by Christmas! Shavings, unable to dacipher the schere of a paranociec, since fy a his characters are coved around so confusedl;, ives up in despair. He oo : continues to write tho letters, but pays little attention to the contents, . Be is interested now in only the cigarettes he recei.es for writing then. The; are, he confides to another innate, stereotyped --- the sane thing over . and over, the lanjuape slightly varying. In a fev words: Rath, having tho . judge or his knees begging for mercy, warns him that wmless he effects the | release promised she will send the pictures to her newspaper friend. . Then, it develops, a date ts sot for the release of "Dearert, Darling Daddy Mjnef' Yer, he wiil waik out of the penitentiary a free man, . « two days before Christass! Oh, how happy ahe (Ruth) will be to greet hin! To live over aguin those days and nights of the past! To erush hin arce more to her hoaving bosom. » » To feel his warn flesh against her own! Happiness too complete to dere dream of] She fears. « » fears for the gods are jealous! Fears. .« . fears for his asfety until thenil Foars, « « fears that his happiness upon being released will make him forget all that “ ghe has done for hin! Foarss. . . fears of fearc! . . that he will go back to his wifes, instead of proving to her (Ruth) that he loves ber more! Wretched " Buth} Poor kuth? Suppose she has worked in vain? Suppose all her effort and toil has been for an ungrateful manf Sapposet] Suppose many things, sho reminds him. But alas] the day comes. . . the day goes. » » Christzas passes and the New Year has begun, and "Dearest, Darling Daddy Kine", Euth forlorniy regrets, is «till behind the walla of the Atlanta peniten- tiary. dnd Fred, the guard who is supposed to be bringing in the letters from downtomm, is scheduled to go to Aloatrer for duty]