he looked self conscious his heart he was still more agitated when the were counted and said it s a pleasure to that will be the next assistant wi elder i know of no man who stands more for common sense and enterprise than good old george come on let s give him our best long yell as they a hundred men crushed in to slap his back he had never known a higher moment he drove away in a of wonder he into his office to miss well i guess you better congratulate your i been elected vice president of the i he was disappointed she answered only yes � oh mrs s been trying to get you on the but the new said by chief say that s great that s perfectly i m to death congratulations called the house and to his wife heard you were trying to get me say you got to hand it to little this time better talk careful you are now addressing the vice president of the club oh pretty nice is the new president but when he s away little takes the and em up and the � no matter if they re the governor himself � and � george listen � it puts him in solid with big men like george paul � � yes sure i ll paul and let him know about it right away listen paul s in jail he shot his wife he shot this noon she may not live chapter xxii he drove to the city prison not blindly but with unusual care at corners the of an old woman plants it kept him from facing the of fate the attendant said you can t see any of the prisoners till three thirty � visiting 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 defiance which broke into a fear of this 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 crazy you didn t give him my name tell him it s george wants to see him george i told him all right all right he said he didn t 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 changed 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 where 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 unlocked the cell admitted and left them together he spoke slowly go on be moral on the couch beside him i m not going to be moral 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 hunting the for some cotton to stop the blood i ran a little 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 about his 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 everything � there was a big crowd outside the apartment 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 terrified insane to divert him said why you got a on your cheek yes that s where the hit me i suppose get a lot of fun out of too he was a big fellow and they wouldn t let me help carry down to the paul i quit it i listen she won t die and when it s all over you and i ll go off to again and maybe we can get that may to go along i ll go up to and ask her good woman by and afterwards i ll see that you get started in 