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 CHAPTER XIII.

Lived on Bounty of Stanford White.

EVELYN THAW FORCED INTO FURTHER REVELATIONS—PROVED THAT WHITE PAID HER BILLS—ARCHITECT'S LETTERS AND RECEIPTS FOR MONEY PAID HER, READ—THAW CALLED WHITE'S CASH "POISON"—AMERICAN OFFICIAL DRAGGED INTO SCANDAL—JEROME PRODUCES EVELYN THAW'S DIARY AS A SCHOOLGIRL—EVELYN'S PHILOSOPHY—DECLARES HERSELF VERY "SUSCEPTIBLE"—ABE HUMMEL CALLED; LEAVES THE STAND WITH STORY UNSHAKEN.

More crushing than all the ordeals hitherto experienced, Evelyn Thaw was next compelled to admit the shameful fact that after her ruin she lived on the bounty of her betrayer. Documentary evidence was introduced to strengthen the hands of the merciless Jerome. A dozen times she took refuge in the answer, "I don't remember."

It was a bad day for the defense. The most sensational feature of the session was the introduction of her diary which pictured her a whimsical, strange little philosopher, even as a school girl.

Jerome sprang his coup with startling suddenness. He handed Mrs. Thaw a bundle of receipts representing money paid to her and her mother by Stanford White, and demanded that the fair witness identify her own signature on them.