Show 8 0 1 r li l i I i j H How O Pal Fai i I II Il i I t Did D 1 d Not L Tot 1 jA jAi 1 4 fi 00 e eBy fc By Tighe I T r rl The to in the r 19 3 r T hid r by 10 a tuut na lt I I i of that the theaS t aad k I wal aS tilled off ol Ida cap capI be l 1 bead eni aDI face tace ai I h man tH e on Oil swinging lr aI been at work j gangs r r that hat f ar l U gri r hire I l I iI Huard Tuck TuckS f lift Ii 1 S OD iI beat bt d I from all I the h Il rill Ix el lor br the theS that S TUCK 11 I 1 have bae II 1 nant wu W eer gL 5 But Buti I n a Uh a buI D i U h hd LI ho l as curious S S 0 lit ht h the wall was wasS Jt nail 5 5 al t to k oW knOW knOWS S h the i th ile le of the wall eu he had not DOt DOtI nyc 1 it I I 11 and aad th those I J Iry und that vault of S I et III with S L WH 1 iet of five or ori oreel 1 eel the S i i ic I and I He Lie toad lad a aith iong ith t Iu ue LI e straight t 1 c 1 l i square moat jh h 11 tb est teeth What S i barber had bad left him IR himm fron trOal deI de li 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quarries l in mn i n wen in IC there th rt oat Wt of th the ae so soS aa S what they taIe pIe pleased plesie i i i IY r i it almost a t J be 1 I J n rf a t j 11 n i into the pew I I t y tars tar iDee he be had bad badJI raised S JI jUr i r Ctr r f I i hs his lip iII lipi iIII r i J I wan i an i steadily to I 1 V i oid lI Remnant il n yn u u ten tell by byS UK t i S I U n as a gen gm gmt genik 1 ik t i I T t L it His s sleeve e e fax ear i u uI iI I 1 s u tet 1 t ai n tand ud it matey 11 tt tty ir iri II III S I i l I u uJ a drink druk th bloomin alive S I i od un UH cried the war wai w wa i iI H atch a cb a ohl if iC you take 1 t ti i 1 11 v a i Old BaD Ren BaDI fl I S J Ia c w a hint pest prel T I i in II II cl 1 a ati lr r f the quanie quare ti N to 11 lit II and an blew til th thI k I 11 n l fa d I in ill aid the war t tr r 1 luns I ant s party halh I inn hill 1111 I U ins Ui t II i 1 tun tunk antI ami the sword i in 11 i J 1 t I ITh t h his hi leg I I but bat II 5 r f aim t a s r taxed r r 1 t lr lol jackets the i 1 I i rv 1 in 1 In n double 1 1 m n t d i ID III i joir th the party porty to cuard rujI w Lit in iD their theirS S moo i and the tile theS IJ S t ith t th t n uns to I shoot boot nl ill n th II rear tr Then Thenh S h lue n 1 b I nan in an limply to tout tot ut gh t tin Ij inuring t quarries 1 1 j i walked Fair 1 lIh dh l 11 n his bis sleeve co h 7 5 ilK l u rt and andS a liB S h b hi t H M f S 1 ta la IM I r Remnant R Rf v i ii us LO ni hi I hAte huire of a az H HI f 1 l z i to t i rix i who ho had b rt i t i j ears in inS I S l s u walking m iD mi iDi C 11 U i t i on I political iW i I nj n i ift l i th thigh ugh there t Ih M tiC f gentlemen v n t ji record 14 S In a ai hat d ib lb c l tred Ihl r h i h ferid dos iu U S Fa Fi perhaps Fah I i h Ii i stained his igi 11 LC ht and andS andl S U x l S I Ut tt hUar II LU t i t the I JK l LIthe the i i J caps S i ich ichu S u could S J I i a 1 1 ia sa SaW from fromIa fr ng iff 1 D U m in fi m his can CaD Ia S 1 with nith r 5 I a i 1 TUr pur against a aMI Ii 1 MI l He nodded r a 1 i t parties were w re 11 i 1 Hurry up at 5 r 1 1 at whisky an mul teed eed d OH Old Rem Rein Remt to t t put ut me alongside U hi ored rt d S i lJ i 1 tm morning DS hl i ins OD ODI I sl St M most i U w i U r a ai aS Il S i It t n I him hi k kS r S a i v 1 T 1 ugh member lit lilt i i liberty hbert mat 11 1 i t he said sal when bell ha i sed sod down tae U t rou ou would ouId do di me m me i vc e t ut teh ch comfort comfortS S h n n p after that chut S Inn 1 a i I Iii i Ing to sI sIX X S 1 ll I Fairfax sotto Solto 5 P s t t away alive c h i IC e t J comes U dl al us j i tile the oi 01 r r laJ f II ut UL 5 U U front from Lo Long Ln I Iter i l ta F said ter y i ir r n IL ILS 1 E I I Ir IX X 1 I It r wa a S u ht 1 and andS t lith i t S U Th S S one ODe p nt 0 dil U is r ii 7 01 L i r that Mr tn r he was wu Enjoy your matey he hein in of Fairfax i i 1 I always alwan do doAh doU U Ah Ever think of a suns Iou matey mate r Well Wall not DOt for lor breakfast I Win WID Its It queer but I t this mornin IDO mor I cd do a all round the clock lunch lune arf art I tea and i r in III my IDY nice Dice white chok r You Tau aint iDt see me in bt a white choker matey Now youre a chap chan that thinks and I ex expect expect pent youve had dreams believe In m Inte dresses dreams mate te i What sort port Never Nver mind I dreamed of a steak auak matey two nights before I II got sot out Nt of ot Borstal T Teuro irre n O or that tack tacit still are you your j satt T M years yeara is i a long lollS stretch matey done five said Fairfax i a stretch you can do on your I 5 p 1 I U 1 I L LS U S I Ia a 1 S U HISTORIANS II Off I of Christ f Latt Saints ASTONISHMENT WAS WRIT WHIT IN CAPITALS OK ON THOSE NOT REPELLENT FEATURES bead head Its It when you turns tuma the corner and Del sees see another five Pull yourself together said mid Fair Fairfax Fairfax fax You cant caDt get out of Longstaff Its a sad waste o time mused mUlled Old and if you come to think its rough on OD the pore old queen queeR Ve Ue cost rott her a day mate matey and he got a tidy Udy big family to find for Perhaps we should have thought of that th t before we came upon her charity I I I 1 dont say but we should matey I it its s never too late to mend as the croaker told us this blessed Sun Sunday Sunday Sunday aal day mornin Well said Fairfax now that were in for it it I fancy we had better butter accept her charity for the time tune she has bas been good enough enouch to im ha impose pose it on us It dont doDt seem quite the square thing thine gettin on OD in years yearn an angot angot angot got a blame expensive an you an aD mes on her victuals I Im m on flesh myself and bos me Whose table tabie am m Ant I rob robbin bh bin So you youre re going to try it It then thell Well your OUr plan I 1 ain a aint tt t ky fitted out the expedition tion matey but Im rill the chart These Sunday talks have been beeD die dis disallowed allowed perhaps not Dot quite without Fairfax did not much believe in iD inI iDI I Old Remnants project fur for the im tin tinI imI I p ty of Longstaff was a kind of proverb in ia all alt H M prisons but the face of that able burglar and prison breaker was as very studious as he sat eat in his cell through the after atter afternoon afternoon noon of Sunday with the Bible across S his bis h knees I Old Remnant vas as aware that every evsy c chance nance hance was against him t but he be had seen freedom in a vision and he be could see nothing else This Thill fierce freedom hunger U Is the chief disease of convict prisons and arid all aU the prison people know it wen well eD from the governor down to the commonest little sneak of a convict in his hia keeping Day and night the tile lag teg lagh I h hops and aDd pines for liberty there ia Is nothing but this longing and aad the dull dullI I hope of Its ItJI fulfilment that solaces olace his hise I I bondage e For years do not Dot roll with I him bins they trail and slug along and seem perpetually to lose their course couse 3 s U one me cruel hand band put back the clock a UtIle sad and a little every day hut But most prisoners lack the energy lid and a yet f rester t number Dumber lacks the courage Cun that thatis is ia wanted ted for fot the great attempt For prim breaking id Is not what it was A Casanova a Trench Trenck a a could scarcely eat ent his w way y out of w the thin modern prison that is La 1 patched and haunted at every ever point 1 moment m t by b moment mOll nt through every hour boor of ci the u Bat old p is isoa oa or OJ r new nw prison every prison has bas its lie master steT Bastile or pound there is 18 1 Iw yi one 0 genius who ho thai the dae open seme Remnant knew that he be tad bud the tIM I very badly M un know knew that It woid jet the better of ct Mm It wed like this be IM beJaR Had sd si sia a JaR his m r end and three p c he be had succeeded but bat here for the flint first time lime be h neither etther pleat plan nor in inspiration III Inspiration he lie was ignorant t of every everything everything thing that was waa w to come His time was wasat wasat at hand for another leap heap at the bars he must make IDalIe that leap but intuition i l lighted him ao no farther At bedtime le he be was as 8 empty of ideas as at dinner time wanted an aD another another other odIer twelve hours boar for quiet meditation He Be had bad thought out his Ills last escape in a punishment cell enS at t Chatham On the Monday morning accordingly be re refused refused refused fused to muster uster for chapel and waa was promptly marched to W choker i Ill ID get It here said Old Rem Remnant nant as the door clotted closed upon him bins in inthe the dark cell TEL I Ties The Bell l Boom went the bell the great bell in inthe Inthe inthe the tower and aDd 1 1200 convicts lose less one oneat sat fat bolt up in their hammocks and lis us listened Not a warder patrolling his hall hail in felt shoes lantern in band but stood and listened to the hell bell No Ko sound BOund ever moves the prison aa as that does for the angry message of the Veil tell was this I Prisoner oner escaped e I It was waa perfectly dark stark in the cells so being mid July it K could be nowhere near mar the morning who had got clear in that short pan epen of darkness Fall Fait fax alone atone perhaps divined aright alight Every warder on night duty in every hall hail glanced nervously at the cells around and above Him t m He knew that in each of those cells a convict was waa sit sitting sitting sitting ting up and with both ears straining and witHaL whilst 1 that bell was clanging none noDe could tell what next might happen Happy the warder who could say y It aint one of my birds No prisoner durst quit his hammock no warder could leave Ms his hall hail until the thedoor thedoor door duos was waa unlocked from the other wide side sideby by the officer of the morning But every evelY ball was silent said lid secure yet still 1 bell bull kept shrieking Pris Prisoner Prisoner oner eeoc escaped Prisoner IV The TNt Night fight Warder of D B The new punishment cells were in the southeast angle of the tile p n They had bad been built against an aD outer wall of old ld Longstaff castle ca tko at a t th w of which some BOme twenty feet below the level of the prison rIson ran the small email swift river Tene This outer wall almost the sole BOle up upstanding upstanding standing portion of the castle was fashioned of enormous granite J blocks and aDd its Ita thickness throughout was near nearly nearly ly Iy four feet The five live new punishment cells occupied occupied pied pled a short hort corridor one ORe end of which was enclosed while at the other end an antron iron tron wicket led into a little circular yard vard with very high hl walls where pris prisoners prisoners prisoners in close confinement were ex cx exercised exercised separately during one hour bour of the This yard communicated communicated communicated by means of a stone atone passage and andU I U two tO other wickets wicket with D hall baR of the prison lOn and the night warder in D 1 pa patrolled patrolled trolled the far corridor every fifteen minutes That night Dight warder had bad just disco discovered ered that the dark cell into which Old Remnant had bad been locked in the morning was empty He bad had seen Been him hima a a quarter of an aD hour hoar earlier earll r apparent ly iy asleep on his hia plank If It this thle were strange tran stranger a hundred times tunes was the sight which the cell coil presented It was MIS flawless in ID every part Not a brick had been displaced the floor and the ceiling were whole the Ute fastenings of the door intact AIt It is III little litt to say that the warder arder was wu less His feeling of the matter wet wept t deeper for he saw how desperately black it looked against himself Miracles lea suspended I a pris prisoner prisoner oner does doe not nt paa p se unaided out of a 1 cell ceil and leave not a trace behind him He floats magically through four feet of granite wall wail or orleta somebody leta lets him out outS S During Darin twenty beats of his watch atch the I It sight Bight t arder passed in rev review his hi jt see en on years untarnished service aRd ret k i cent up Ida his very certain chances of punishment Then he lie did his duty dut and pressed preMed his finger linger on Oft the electric but button button button ton at the wicket U UOn On the Dee heels of the chief warder er came the thy both buth looked I askance at that clean cell out of which I Old Remnant had whisked himself In I fifteen minutes with neither chip nor filing to betray his Ms flight It was wa then that the big bell ia in I the tower laid its tongue to that tbt rousing lOin message mege mee age of Prisoner Escaped The night warder an old ild salt wh a faultless record in the navy and a faultless one in Longstaff stool a little l on his dignity The governor and BINI the chief warder knew him for a very safe hand band but here was a strong cell with Witla not a 8 stone stene displaced in it from which a 8 prisoner had vanished in fifteen Win min minutes I utes Is prison broken brok n and not BOt a brick bri loosened not a bar severed It Is Ja ira possible to credit miracles in tle the tle ay v I lee ice the night nj ht warder disappeared di PIt red un under under der arrest V Fairfax Old Remnant When a 8 prisoner has haa escaped ped the tM governor and his staff state expect to be busy The small percentage of danger dangerous oils ous convicts found in every prison grows very warm It is angry and en envious n I vIGus ripe for mutiny and sore ore in inclined lIned dined to follow in the footsteps fooL tep of af the fugitive And every class cia in the prison m I Id except perhaps rh that h of the t blue I dress d men whose release is neat near n feels the disturbing influence of ot a bold escape I Great that day amongst ail aU the I brotherhood of the broad arrow anew was WIUS wasI I the fame of Old Remnant i I Fairfax was a prisoner of approved I behavior He kept himself him elf a a man MaD as asfar asfar far fat as II one may do under that Egyptian I sway an 3 having sense sen enough to ig ignore Ignore nore note the waspish incivilities of the I type of ot warder who likes to put the gentleman lag in his bl place it I Iwas was rare for him to be in trouble In two years he had not once tried to i i find out the weak places in the rules rule 1 a favorite snort in that I arena But Fairfax had bad a 8 livelier and more personal relish r of Old Remnants I flight than any other man in Longstaff fr I since inc he be alone had been privy to the I Ide design ign de and Fairfax the had the fidgets as badly as any anyone one ne that morning He hoped he was not HOt going U UA to lose Jo his head I A man in one of the quarry parties j struck work and said they might as aswell aswell well let him out as Old Remnant No one OR except Fairfax believed that he had broken |