mere in its way and yet here it had risen up this miserable insignificant check and become a mountain of opposition a stone wall a prison wall his further progress it was astonishing he looked around him at the court room how large and bare and cold it was still he was frank a why should he let such queer thoughts disturb him his fight for freedom and privilege and was not over yet good heavens it had only begun in five days he would be out again on would take an appeal he would be out and he would have two long months in which to make an the fight he was not down yet he would win lis liberty this jury was all wrong a higher court say so it would reverse their verdict and he it he to where the latter was the clerk the jury in the hope that some one had been over persuaded made to vote against lis will is that your verdict he heard the clerk ask of philip no i it is replied that worthy solemnly is that your verdict the clerk was pointing to yes sir is that your verdict he pointed to yes so it went through the whole jury all the men answered firmly and clearly though thought it might barely be possible that one would have changed his mind the judge thanked them and told them that in view of their long services this night they were dismissed for the term the only thing remaining to be done now was for to persuade judge to grant a stay of sentence the hearing of a motion by the state supreme court for a new trial judge looked at very curiously as asked that the sentence be stayed until a motion for a new trial could be entertained by the supreme court and owing to the importance of the case and the feeling he had that � the supreme court might very readily grant a of reasonable doubt in this case he agreed there was nothing left therefore but for to return at this late hour with the to the county jail where he must now remain for five days at the least � possibly longer the jail in question which was known as the prison was at tenth and re streets and from an and artistic point o view was not so to the eye it consisted of a central portion � prison residence for the or you will � three stories high with a and a round tower about one third as high as the central portion itself and two wings each two stories high with at either end giving it a highly and consequently from the american point of view a very prison like appearance the of the prison which was not more than thirty five feet high for the central portion nor more than twenty five feet for the wings was set back at least a hundred feet from the street and was continued at either end from the wings to the end of the street block by a stone wall all of twenty feet high the structure was not severely prison like for the central portion was pierced by rather large hung on the two upper stories with curtains and giving the whole front a rather pleasant and air the wing to the right as one stood looking in from the street was the section known as the county jail proper and was devoted to the care of prisoners serving out sentences on some order the wing to the left was devoted exclusively to the care and control of prisoners the whole building was built of a smooth light colored stone which on a snowy night like this with the few lamps that were used in it glowing feebly in the dark gave it an fantastic almost supernatural appearance it was not in the least it was a rough and night when started for this institution imder ess the wind had sprung up driving the snow before it in curious interesting the s on guard at the court of quarter who accompanied and his father and to the jail was a the little man dark with a short and a shrewd though not highly intelligent eye who was anxious to his dignity as a which was a important position in his estimation and next to turn an honest penny if he could he knew little save the details of his small world which consisted of accompanying prisoners to and from the courts and the md seeing that they did not get away he was not to a particular type of prisoner � the well to do r prosperous � for he had long since learned that it paid to be so to night he offered a few suggestions � that it was rather rough that the jail was not so far but that they could walk and that would in all be or could be aroused scarcely heard he was thinking of his mother and his wife and of when the jail was reached was led to the door of the central portion as it was here that the had his private office had recently been elected to office and was inclined to to all the outer appearances in so far as the proper conduct of his was concerned without in reality inwardly thus it was generally known among the that one way he had of his rather lean salary was to rent private rooms and grant special privileges to prisoners who had the money to pay for the same other had done it before him in fact when was into office several prisoners were enjoying these privileges and it was not a part of his scheme of things to disturb them the rooms that he let to the right parties as he invariably put it were in the central portion of the jail where 