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anything to make 1t Necessary for "a
q no hurt You. I'd rather put 4 bulis
into myself than into YOU
n Try. Bin. to be satisded to do M
Time. but sometimes / feel That IL
{ don't get out o here III so crazy"
Be patient you.v. only got yea
and a half more. counting time OF 70
good behavior, and thatll soon pass
The convict turned away with dis
satisfied exclamation: the keeper lock
!, ed him in his cen and returned to hi.
Office. .
Just three months from that tnf
Jim Burt after q visit from his wife
who smuggied him steel saw, Gu:
two bars out OF his window, let him.
self down by means OF his bedcIothes,
lodged the guard and got away When
/ the escape was reported to the keeper
he heaved a sigh and. aiming himself.
started In pursuit
II must get Jim or kin him. he
said Everybody knows that he and
I were schoolmates. and everybody
WIN believe that conntved at his es-
cape
There was more than this In BIZ
Connolly's Dissemination to capture or
shoot bis old fdend-a cast iron con-
science. He considered It his duty to
safely keep every prisoner. and IL any
one OF them escaped to get him. dead
or alive- he could make no e1certon,
and in the case OF his former friend he
must make greater effort He divid-
ed the pursuing force into sections,
sending them in different directions,
keeping one route for himself, route
he felt sure Jim Bucw would take Tom
Hathaway, who had been one of trio
OF friends when they were boys, BIZ |
Connolly and Jim Burt being the 9TH /
ecs. lived in retired spot between /
two mountains, a convenient place to |
hide. and BIZ knew that Tom would |!
hide their old friend Bill
One with less sturdy conscience
would have looked elsewhere for the
fugitive except in the place where he
felt sure he Was to be found, but Con
molly could no more lie to himself than
to those by whom he was paid to do
his duty. He went alone to Hatha-
ways. hoping that he might the better
prevail upon Jim to return with him
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-p'ro'teheo pace:
oonnoa!y snlVetecl at tne thouGnt OF
nent IN the cold
-a1-'sS > ne was told py Mrs
= 1919 - lEatna*ay was not at $
.o-' tnae SGFI hac noe oeen there.
Stic ne MO ana sne mad given him her
iI - > osercoaC Z
C -tlH' Knew Oh Z cleft IN the rocks :
9t1oRt issuance up the road and felt
- ta'; n mouio ano nus man there he
,-iiAeo uH ne came 10 an opening in
&c ousneS tnro1Sn winch 4 pain led to
Isi ittHe eose. 1neh LOOK the path and
-.sae. "nen ne came WITHIN Few :
uhfeo saFcs OF the hiding place ,
' 'lce calec: z,
Eat Ell:
.. Lone out' JIM =
never awe, ELY
lou Know my duty o
NO oont billy / SUPPOSE You do" y
m Obliged to take you back with q
E. You know how it would Erieve me q
take You back In box" ~
3es. do. Billy, and you know how -
would grieve me to shoot NV old e
10 lou see I've got n position -
re behind these rocks to do All the IA
mage. or rather You can't see, for pr
q too well covered" co
And 1,o,,,1l I'm -. -.,r
" my duty. a duty that ran.t 90 -
perform without dishonor.-
I don't exactly see it In that light =
have your old friends word that A.
IS not guilty OF the crime for which ae
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