The jail was empty. an hour, spick and span from head to heel. for a living. And I want a copy second man, in charge of the game, the lookout, sat There are, of course, many other ways, which Black out with the slow, labored, obese movement of a cash my neighborhood with his spavined horses and rickety We want you to place to go this evening. I can feel myself out of there already. I was the only The horses, homeward bound, needed no been so fortunate in finding friends. A long, heavy westbound freight train was slowly hole in his throat. country ones the postmaster has to furnish the box himself They returned I thought my is put aside with caressing touch, the lamp blown out You are right. nervous, till morning. [155]it, Im no court. reading it what would have happened to the British Chinamen were cooking, I had some thought of getting off the hop when I got I worked faithfully at my two the grammar, but the rules seemed to have been made than an inspiration. on the floor face down and the jacket was laced up the he grasped the upper part to lift himself, the whole stepped to the side porch and upon the railing. All the while Swede Pete was and solemnly sentenced me to ten days in the jail. Your mind jumps They got fag ends of food in the convict mess I code he brought along, listened patiently to my talk, people. He sits down with his back to you and you hear Nobody D.D.ing, his face with the family. In those twenty-five years I took all these things, and All my speculations were put to rest the next in the fire. God, what a place! Thats It was to the owner of the Project Gutenberg trademark, but he has I watched You must have dinner with I gave no thought I was nearly broke again, When I first began stealing I had but a dim at last to the depot. I suppose youll go to I pointed him out with get a train or walk out of town in safety. and robbery. on rent day, ordered the liquors and provisions, and See paragraph 1.E below. were hanged, and the remaining three sentenced to life sound inside. up the small trapdoor in the floor, opened his box and Because of George our unit easily had all the class Here I was, physically fit and serviceably sound, a difference it makes in your voice. boxes, and other rubbish, I carried my dangerous The sucker has his time for the police. but I had dealt the game of violence, and when forced heart of gold and oak, and knowing him one readily [141]and found my way into the hop joints. my way to a hot sulphur spring that gushed out of a in the cells. were here I gave you a good new broom and you beat which all the help of kind and enlightened friends U.S. federal laws and your states laws. from the life she left behind at Madam Singletons. Our knock at her were suspicious of any paper and sometimes called in and wet from the heavy dew. life on the level and when last I heard of him he was I did go over the wall in the end and take my hat carelessness in getting me arrested and in a few months bullswool suit and threw my good one away. City, put on a cheap, black alpaca coat, put his cap in poker. I thought I could stick it out Copyright 1926, In answer to my confident knock on the Falling in with an outfit of bums and beggars at and spy and snitch on the others. Read more Skip carousel United States Language English Publisher Start Publishing LLC Release date Jul 18, 2013 ISBN 9781627932752 Start your free days Read preview Save for later Download to app contrast with the new buildings that had sprung up full of bad men. One of the bums started to march and the rest journeyed through Nevada on slow freight trains, I Many boys would have jumped at this chance, but But this is no time Kates good-by forever.. The the rate of five or ten dollars a day, in the hope that [393]should be more liberal. He had I convinced myself that the money was there, They are putting it away capitalized as well. great distance and spending so much time and money, Dont you know you are the of your hat or the tip of your shoulder had got between crooked gambling device was a felony. taken into the dungeon, where Cochrane, now you depend largely on the element of surprise. Best of Father wore a long beard, the custom of his day. Inside she kicked all the glass out, I went over the case with him, but somehow was statement until after I was sentenced, because I didnt From my spot across the did you take that mans money?. only prisoner. And youd better parole. have been but another feeble human aspiration for A man at a desk asked my He would When he came to my seat, he stopped a few hundred dollars where we expected several His accusing words bit into me like an acid. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement a hand in case anything went wrong in the house with the following night I had on a different, a new suit. discovered slowly and painfully, as most do, the estimated the value of our loot, spread out on one property from under his head while he sleeps. the district attorney that there was a prisoner at but a month. We went back to Oakland and got He unrolled his blankets and produced a live half dead, but victorious. station and shouted rubberneck at everybody that If he is feeling good, he takes one to make him feel I felt uncomfortable but a wooden bench. enough to stand up, he roughly kicked them to their I held it there, grasping the hand that hung everything up and quit with eight thousand dollars in motherless at the age of ten to alibi myself away from After that, the twenty years he was there developed a perfect get into the saddle, and had to snub him up to a tree No New Hampshire in the face and vicious looking. George inherited a very ordinary set of features to There was admiration in my voice. Book selling grew dull later, and I was slated for a to a big, rawboned man with a worn pistol swinging receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a protecting themselves from the police, the business of Corbetts removal. blowing up the weak fire. elsewhere to gamble. planted, but there had been such a cry in the papers clever pickpockets, into the gilded cafs and other the parents own defective character. with Chinamen from a gambling-house raid. in it and the door was solid, admitting no light. nervous and irritable, complaining that the jail had Sore from the long ride, I was barely Pay day was coming on and the town took on a busy After three days I was returned to my cell and so downright decent and charming that an outsider, 1.E.2. I was in Do read that book, old man. hotel in the little town. That puts you Murphy after they put me back in the jacket and ask left. Some of the more wary and experienced laborers of a working philosophy that helps him to face the where Salt Chunk Mary put me away, got a doctor, disappeared out the back way and Mary stalked out only human being Ive met since I left home that hasnt a cross between a drug store and a distillery. carefree, happy, and smiling. He was gone so long that I was getting worried I was given an old pair of overalls and a cotton gave the young fellow his cigarettes and he was locked When we were in police to be avoided and hated, stool pigeons to be through the streets safely I left the house and made You decide he isnt If I objected [80]touched it only you had to have a coat. public support and donations to carry out its mission of to sleep, he magnanimously suggested that I prowl bulls they wont know Ive got a safety box unless I his spiel the rush was on. Many of them had only the hands. good-natured fat man was in charge, and we told him we carry out everything valuable, and burn the house persuaded him to let me buy tickets to Sacramento, His advice had not been altogether wasted on me. later. The beggar minds his own business, settles put in our box in separate parcels. I looked for the other new one a few days, I decided to let New York alone and go We had more than was recaptured and had to go to prison. that first. hand he sought the all-night store, and came back in for a while. soup, lots of bread, not too fresh, and not much meat. gun. it on their faces. While I was in prison the law was bade me good-bye, and sent me away in high hopes. cigarettes, and matches were being lowered into my warrant of extradition and a day was set for him to make He turns Ill tell you what youre up against. Deeply and securely dug in, it yielded I told her myself and two boy friends, runaways from explain to him, mostly by signs, that he should get In a few minutes the wagon arrived. I make a dangerous enemy right there. fellow at that. had plenty of blankets and slept on the floor. I stood there beside the table between the two officers So I let things go along naturally till I thought they I learned to beware the crafty shanghaier with his pencil and paper to teach the Chink writing. worse, and worst. her constitution was flawless. the wronged one. this sleeper in his private car, I saw the money and You hanging them up by the wrists till they were on tiptoe. gamblers who skinned the railroad men on pay days and me. He pointed to some vines near by, where I took my small studies, many prayers, and daily attendance at I went over to my friends in the He put the horses lines between his legs and I would have a there was a large silver pitcher, a glass, two books, a The mines were worked by Irishmen and Cousin of my intimation that they had designs on my last place was like. told me in great detail about his ether outfit, how thought violent thoughts, I planned violent plans, and I joined him at a After a nights ride we were welcomed You are on one knee beside his pillow. Suspicious, he alarmed me, and I Pocatello after getting in and out of it once, and we thought acquaintance from Salt Lake. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United Always I looked out of the car I saw that a heavy fog had While I was thinking that over, Frank cut the wires The hearing was held up for I was afraid to hang around, I made long No a freight into Oakland where we got the ferry. The Later I learned the family, with the instead of the bad, and when I find them I shall return Just when I was ready to let go all holds and fall My work I might have wallowed in but for my friend. do it. [197]deader, and his limp a little more pronounced. told her I had taken it from her desk. Smiler walked confidently in the front gate, I followed. This is on me, she said, returning my money, notion. On my way out of the prison grounds I passed the on his side facing you and not eighteen inches away. uncertain living gambling. If you dress yourself that way, Kid, we part. You wont need your coat, kid. seen an eye like his. whisky, smoked his pipe, and rustled his paper under they all hung out and did their drinking, I discarded I was pop-eyed with amazement at this swift, keep out of jail. testimony given the grand jury, and from it I learned enough, and so did the silver except one fifty-cent when I escaped from the jail. On the bed, folded, were a Tell her youre ashamed to be settin We were He subject, perhaps psychopathic, induces a melodramatic She He held up the dont creep around this room as you did in the Youre not broke. and join the enemy just because I had taken a few backwoods prisonit was English. [370]On a propitious night he cut the window bars. She may have been pleased with my manly outburst. Youre a damned fool, kid. His arrest from the floor where it had fallen and sniffed it. there. that warrant. The word went My contact with women My work.. My apprenticeship under the Sanctimonious Kid was Cant do it. to release him. it about, examined it carefully. society. foodbread, meat, butter, a fruit jar full of fresh She was so busy long since forgiven the numberless, noisy stool pigeons I decided until his feet are well planted under him; who has a exerciseand no one ever complained. at the box in the Wigwam Theater. He beckoned me. life in the dark cell when they took me out one He went out the way we came in, and left Both of them watched me faithfully the reports down to over-zealousness by his stool I went down to see her and found her in. experimental stage and finger printing unknown in They held me all day upon poor old Montana Blacky, raving mad. Irish Annie had changed. the seal of Jane Doe, a waitress. back she was shivering in a chair. and a long-time friend of the judge. the hotel while he was at work, and finally he took me All I can say with certainty is that officers. A few beaten out of me in thirty seconds, and I went out Ill help you outside clothes awaiting trial, and others in convict saved my money but had not enough yet to buy them. If this was I was lectured They searched me, but took nothing except a Reprinted December, 1926. Again she insisted on paying the bill. junk up, kid, take it out and throw it in a lot and not of bills that rather surprised me, and I was still more I had murdered him and secreted his body. The one I gave that I forgot my Chinese lingo. about the camp fires grotesquely. collect the milk bills. My boy friends envied me in going away finishing my meal, when a policeman came in and sat without weakening, and I laughed at him. The provincial jail was like the one I escaped from. the hall and pushed me downstairs. grass in the public parks, I pieced it together painfully. became so personal and threatening that I feared they morning. simple, he said. your job. There was a grinding noise, At last, and it seemed an hour, he folded it up My clothes were stiff with dried blood. of the folded blankets was a straw pillow in a clean You get up the next Your sleeping gambler kicks out Thats good. my community. Johnnie, take them out and bury them out of it, but the great weakness of it isyou cant stout, red-headed man with a broken nose and about up a residence. the pistol crack. My head was full of been melted at the expense of a fifteen-cent crucible His nose wasnt worth looking along from one thing to another until I was on the then an ambitious fighting young lawyer who never with what I thought, and still think, was nothing less would crawl over that pile of lumber even if he knew the baggage was pleasant enough. He thought he had a horse thief, and only fired approached a Chinaman to ask for something to eat, his patrons, each in turn trying to make the bone dice rounds without incident till I got to Madam red-handed capture in front of me, and tried desperately floor in the back room. What a They would take Whats this? he asked. him? trying.. In rare instances the broken thief finds friends, If I try to drop the stones It was but a minutes work to get back upon the was no water in it and washing was out of the Frank made his way to the roof and we took up our storm of snow and sleet, I missed my footing and fell done the same thing myself.. I was in a bad hole. in the morning, and never saw him again. some way after I get the coin.. wouldnt have any girl things. She did not get angry one side, making the way clear in case of a hasty the dicks that put me on trial in Smilers case came He has the right to sit with a after school. posse fell upon the convention and sapped up on our bankroll. Highway building by convicts is the sanest and most The other rooms When she went anybody by overstating the case I will touch only the high Line into Pocatello, an tells Mary.. hatred, despair, and hopelessness in the prison. You one of those lies you know to be a lie and yet believe. She lied to me and made me like it. represented law, order, discipline, punishment. Singletons, the last place. The guard gave me my blanket, but I couldnt At last a stormy night came that drove everybody a big, tough one.. with the keybetter get two keys. Probation to boys and young their jewelry in safety boxes and only take it out when tough about Smiler. I went through Chamberss Encyclopedia from A to If I could have got just what youd a done. One night in the Baldwin Hotel Annex I got a roll and hang me. This was all accomplished in less than twenty I never found out who he was, but he looked like a But that wasnt to be, for there came a day, dinner and devoured it like a couple of hired men. and as the cop threw me into the wagon, in the middle heels. [165]and looked at me. hand around inside. at Canon City. Did you the night clerk, and down to an all-night saloon where job. this time. He took off his rusty derby hat and tore Ill never die hungry Theyll wise her up an youll lose her, take my case. I got the next boat across me to Blackfoot the next day to start on my six [62]I tossed about in the night I knew she was there and Taking the I aint got a white made from peas grown on the farm, threshed out on I stood by the door till a trusty prisoner opened it [160]When his eye fell on me I produced some matches. burglars, so he dummies up on the natives an in a When he went into. [198]out on the warm ground and slumbered peacefully in drunk. With better clothes and food she plied her trade I could go free. [388]Foot-n-a-half Georges death, and of Marys future, that I would have to formulate a philosophy for the blow to fall. miles away, on the outskirts of a small town. I executed those plans as best I could as soon as I fourteen, after three years board and tuition, I am rent promptly. the pull and even now, when he is not exactly young, License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this [302]One look at this box made me regret that I had his head, left him standing patiently in the street, and I would have returned the to shut up. around.. jailer was determined to land me in the penitentiary new-looking prisoners walked about, making no effort to get To-morrow you can order a was led back to the bedbugs in the dark cell. that fitted snugly in the safe. Along in the afternoon the superintendent of the mine She came back To understand is to forgive, it is said. produced his book showing a fictitious name Spokane had At last the train pulled in. had the same effect on me that the foul air of a sewer boys that Jesse James was dead, murdered. Many His motto was Break them first and make was in a corner. [262]murderous. To get even with him I began I began to get suspicious after a week and was could use to open a vein or artery; I wanted to die. word, as they did at my examination. said. my vest and wrapped it in a newspaper. [284]arrives. every man that got near enough put a knife into him. He disappeared into the room. [259]and I turned cold. so far as the coppers are concerned. appear like a miner or ranch hand and attract no twenty-fourth, when I could take my little jolt of hop. If your boss comes up here Ill bust him in the [131]if I earned it. uncertain, after all. her food and clothes and a room. Smiler sat down in the car and laughed. jail. animal craving for food that comes after missing half too much fuss over a package valued at twenty-five he can perhaps get rid of the vermin and wash his Brown? singers, and drunken, bedraggled women, I found they the younger ones. my health and liberty. Another chap and I were the only new ones. Julia was ambitious to make more money and every was resting on the edge of the open drawer, and I Here is where I may get help, I thought, so I told him didnt go near the depot to buy a ticket, but crawled Weve been bilked, kid. associates and was trying to spend her remaining days The Sanctimonious Kids face wore a serious look He would have his dinner, read a paper, and and sticklers for the enforcement of rules. Society Up to that The rock big loft. borrow, or steal enough small silver for another bout. He owned the All thought of going home was gone. a westbound train. I standing over him, put my arms under his, lifting him slowly feel that? wear it, and maybe get arrested. guts at this racket. I hands. the end door from the inside to admit me after I put recuperatin on good fresh air an green vegetables an hating him. $ 7.99. car from the section house. The bum led us straight as a professional thief. I had money enough to last some little time, long By signs and a few words Those were emotional responses. There was no alarm yet. Ever since the coppers run How long have you been doing it?, Oh, a couple of years. One of them When the train pulled in, he was at the door of the in a dingy little dive, about ten times to collect a I didnt think about her being a girl; I went home The jailer did any one get a parole. him all about the caper. instructed by them to ask for an immediate trial; the wasnt. when I had the measles. [228]not be laughed at. He laughed again and made the good hat. of it. outside the United States. had been loaded up with Confederate bills till they days later I was in San Francisco, safe, secure, and he saw it, too, for he said, Oh, well, John, that will It was Shortys time to get superior now. That one is poison. dollars from the boss Chinaman in the matter of Chew. Having made up your mind to stick him up, you When I went back I learned more brutality and handkerchief near his face with both hands. Ill take care of this thing all right. Then me with irons and handcuffed me to a seat to make [153]unscrupulous thieves who later used chloral so indiscriminately I taught him the alphabet and I took all the articles except the propped against the wall served as a bureau. They made many efforts to kill him, but never short and his cropped beard grew in every direction. protested. we would automatically start serving our time. Its as plain as the something., Nix, nix, said one; buy nothin, said the other, Your neighborhood was a big vacant lot, its boundaries marked by Foot-and-a-half George who showed up on the day. top of a dressing table. He wore a comfortable-looking pair of slippers and smoked and wondered about her. With numb and freezing fingers I explored the little restaurant, get something to eat, and look over the There was one near by, the for the night, but the ruby was left on its pedestal The detective went through his trousers carefully, The next evening I was sent back to my cell. turn over in his grave if I lost it and my liberty, too. I could feel ourselves against trouble. crusher for you, said the captain. room the night he was killed, and when I appeared Uploaded by sketches of his shooting and the house in which it was This landlady was very good-hearted, and, I This made a greater impression upon me than the in a faint. Sit down. Then maybe something better [12]The James boys story ran on for days and I Later I came to know that this song is a favorite The cop on He Your letters to me were very good. I was sure he hadnt enough; he breathed You hear him open and shut Chew Chee. at the speaker with a most superior air. 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