alive he human face spoke to no human thing food was in to him he growled like a animal he hated all things for days and n he his rage at the universe for weeks months he never made a sound in the black si eating his very soul he was a man and a as fearful a thing of fear as ever in the visions of a brain and then one night he escaped the it was impossible but nevertheless the cell was ei the sleeping lad half in half out of it lay the body of a dead two other dead guards marked his trail the prison to the outer walls and he had with his hands to avoid noise he was armed with the weapons of the slain � a live that fled through the hills by the organized might of society a heavy � rice of gold was upon his head farmers him with shot guns his blood might pay off or send a son to college public spirited took down their and went out after him w pack of followed the way of his g feet and the hounds of the law the paid animals of society with and telegraph and special train clung to his trail night and day sometimes they came upon him and men faced m like heroes or through wire to the delight of the reading he account at the breakfast table it was after such that the dead and wounded were � to the towns and their places by men a for the man hunt and then jim hall disappeared the on the lost trail n remote valleys were held up by armed men and to identify themselves while the remains f jim hall were discovered on a dozen by greedy for blood money white in the meantime the newspapers were vista not so much with interest as i anxiety the women were afraid judge s and laughed but not with reason f was in his last days on the bench that jim hall stood before him and received sentence and in before all men jim hall had that the day would come when he would on the judge that him for once jim hall was right he was inn of the crime for which he was it case in the of thieves and police of reading jim hall was being to p for a crime he had not committed because o two prior convictions against him judge posed upon him a sentence of fifty years judge scott did hot know all things and he not know that he was party to a police that the evidence was and that hall was of the crime charged and hall on the other hand did not know that j scott was merely ignorant jim hall believed the judge knew all about it and was hand in with the police in the of the injustice so it was when the doom of fifty of living death was uttered by judge scott that hall all things in the society that mil him rose up and raged in the until the sleeping i by half a dozen of his blue enemies co him judge scott was the in the arch of and upon judge scott he emptied the f his wrath and hurled the threats of his revenge yet � o come then jim hall went to his living death and escaped of all this white knew nothing but between and the master s wife there existed a secret each night after vista had gone to she arose and let in white to sleep in the dig hall now white was not a house dog nor vas he permitted to sleep in the house so each early she slipped down and let him out the family was awake on one such night while all the house slept white awoke and lay very quietly and very quietly le the air and read the message it bore of a strange god s presence and to his ears came sounds of he strange god s movements white burst into lo furious it was not his way the strange walked softly but more softly walked white for he had no clothes to rub against the flesh f his body he followed silently in the wild he lad hunted live meat that was infinitely timid and le knew the advantage of surprise the strange god paused at the foot of the great staircase and listened and white was as dead jo without movement was he as he watched and white waited up that staircase the way led to the low master and to the love master s dearest white but waited the strange g foot lifted he was beginning the ascent then it was that white struck he gave in warning with no anticipated his own into the air he lifted his body in the spring that landed him on the strange god s back white clung his fore to the man s shoulders at the same time burying his into the back ot th neck he clung on for a moment long td drag the god over backward together they to the floor white leaped clear and as the man struggled to rise was in again with the vista awoke in alarm the noise from downstairs was as that of a score of there were revolver shots a man s voice screamed once in horror and anguish there was a great and growling and over all arose a and crashing of furniture and glass but almost as quickly as it had arisen the commotion died away the struggle had not lasted more than three minutes the frightened household clustered at the top of the from below as from out an abyss of blackness came up a sound as of air through water sometimes this became almost a but the sleeping wolf this too quickly died down and ceased then 