say you got to hand it to little this time better talk careful you are now addressing the vice president of the oh � v pretty nice is the new president but when he s away little takes the and em and the � no matter if they re the governor himself � and � listen � it puts him in solid with big men like and � george paul ii i� yes sure paul and let turn know about it ti t away listen paul s to jail he shot his wife he shot this noon she may not live i z l� � chapter xxii he drove to the city not blindly but with unusual care at corners the of an old woman plants it kept bim from facing the of fate the attendant said you can t see any of the prisoners till three thirty � hour it was three for half an hour sat looking at a and a clock on a wall the chair was hard and mean and people went through the office and he thought stared at him he felt a it d ance which broke into a of thb machine which was grinding paul � paul � exactly at half past three he sent in his name the attendant returned with says he don t want to see you you re you didn t give him my tell him it s george wants to see him george i told him all ri t all he said he want to see you then take me in anyway nothing doing if you ain t his lawyer if he don t want to see you that s all there is to it but my god � say let me see the he s busy come on now you � reared over him the attendant hastily to a you can come back and try to morrow probably the poor is off his nut drove not at all carefully or sliding past the s curses to the city hall he stopped with a grind of wheels against the and ran up the marble steps to the office of the hon mr the mayor he the mayor s with a dollar he was instantly inside demanding you remember me mr � vice president of the � for you say have you heard about poor well i want an order on the or whatever you call um of the city prison to take me back and see him good thanks in fifteen minutes he was down the prison corridor to a cage paul sat on a cot twisted like an old beggar legs crossed arms in a knot biting at his clenched fist paul looked up as the keeper the cell admitted and left them he spoke slowly go be on the couch beside him i m not going to be i don t care what happened i just want to do anything i can i m glad got what was coming to her paul said now don t go jumping on i ve been thinking maybe she hasn t had any too easy a time just after i shot her � i didn t hardly mean to but she got to me so i went crazy just for a second and pulled out that old revolver you and i used to shoot with and took a crack at her didn t hardly mean to� after that when i was trying to stop the blood � it was terrible what it did to her shoulder and she had beautiful skin � maybe she won t die i hope it won t leave her skin all but just afterward when i was through the for some cotton to stop the blood i ran a httle yellow duck we hung on the tree one christmas and i remembered she and i d been awfully happy then � hell i can t hardly believe it s me here as s arm ti about bis shoulder paul sighed i m glad you came but i thought maybe you d lecture me and when you ve com a murder and been brought here and � there was a big crowd outside the e house all staring and the took me through it � oh i m not going to talk about it any more but he went on in a monotonous t ri ed insane to t him said why you got a on your yes that s where the hit me i get a lot of fun out of too he was a big fellow and they wouldn t let me help down to the paul quit it listen she won t die and when it s all o ver you and i ll go off to again and maybe we can get that may to go along ill go up to and ask her good woman by and afterwards see that you get started in business out west somewhere maybe � they say that s a lovely city paul was half smiling it was who now he could not tell whether paul was but he on till the coming of paul s lawyer p j a thin busy man who nodded at and hinted if and i could be alone for a moment � wrung paul s hands and waited in the office till came out look old man what can i do he begged nothing not a thing not just now said sorry got to hurry and don t try to see him i ve bad the doctor give him a shot of so he ll sleep it seemed somehow wicked to return to the office felt as though he had just come from a funeral he drifted out to the city hospital to inquire about she was not likely to die he learned the bullet from paul s huge old army revolver had smashed her shoulder and torn upward and 