The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-12

where. amid very different surroundings,
and with the circumstances OF her life
altogether different.
Her voice was noble mezzo soprano,
and when she got into the ravishing air
the effect was thrilling She had only sung
about dozen bars when two young men
and three women from among the crowd
of passengers moved over to her side, and
there was the Lucia se1tette complete.
They took up the swing with the blond
prisoner.
III bet they had never played it before.
1t all seemed like magic unreaiity to me.
Allowing for the excitement OF the pro-
ceedings, and the wine, and the beauty
of the woman who was the main figurante
in the rendition. and all that, yet stick TO
IL that that was the noblest rendering of
the Lucia aria / ever heard anywhere,
and have listened to it at La Scala, not
TO mention other pretentious places
when IL was over the women passengers
tore the flowers from their corsages, the
flowers that had been given to them by
their godspeeding friends at Stockton,
and showered them upon the blonde woman
with the seal eyes The girl who was
prisoner for participating in mean KIND
of swindlng had inspired them out OF
themselves, and they wanted 10 sho"
'And thus the night wore on. Nobody
turned in There WAS too much doing,
and ali Of il worth seeing and hearing, in the
saloon for anybody to turn in,
The six prisoners were all dead pals
and chums with the rest of the passengers
"a distinctly superior lot Of folks, at that.
it should be remembered when, httle
while after dawn, the boat tied up nt the
San Francisco dock.
The on-the-level passengers need never
have known, either. that the SIX people
who had entertained them so cleyerly
during the night were in the hands OF the
law had it not been for the pomposity and
officiousness Of n boss detective on the
dock when the boat was beTthed' Inc
boss detective wanted TO show all hands
that he was the main squeeze, and he came
prancing on board asking the under detec-
tives two or three times to breath, II
they had the six prsoners-count en-
six-nll safe and secure. Then the word
ran around the boat like gale that the
six were prisoners.
Did that knowledge cut any lcef Not a
particle. This happened in California.
~The women passengers surrounded the
two women prisoners and condoled with
them and declared that it was sin ana a
shame, and the men passengers. without
asking anything about the charge on which
they were held, got around the men pris-
oners and passed them the mitt and told
them they'd be all o, X. when they received
Il hearing, and 80 on
when tho prisoners were bundled into
couple Of carriages hat were awaiting tnem,
they got send-off from the passengers
lined ,ip on the dock that must lust nat
urally have made them sorry that they
hadn't been good and done better with the
gifts that had been given them.
We'll, l dunno Maybe I've got streak
Of that agin-the-law thing in me some,
where. But, dye know, was kind o glad
when [ read in the papers before left San
Francisco that those six people had beeen
turned scot loose on a legal technicality?
| was that
1--WE never cut their trail or heard OF
any Of them since. but | hope they re walk
ing around unhobbled and beng good.
I'd hate 10 think Of such gifted lot being
in any kind Of u corral that they couldn
get out of.