Show The RETURN a sf WYN DHA i iN MARTYN MARTY N by AASE l II CHAPTER XII XII Continued Continued 25 25 No o 0 doctor Payson arson Grant Gront saId said kith Ith what dignity he ha could summon I nm am not Dot n murderer I nm am In a 8 avery avery Very unfortunate ta position In e ways Instead of hn having hn ing the sympathy ot of my friend and host bot I am Imprisoned In that closet and accused of murderIng a n man who came to kill killme killme me meThe The Tir doctor glanced It at t the tha sheriff Doo Do sn t seem quite fair does It Let Lets s take taka a look at nt the scene scone of the crime said the vol vole volle e of 01 authority ne He turned to his bis deputy Keep Beep him here Ue lIe turned to the min In tl tI e dressing gown loure re under arrest Bet Best keep your mouth month shut hut till we come down The deputy sheriff slipped lipped the hand haDd handcuffs Ts lu over o Grant GraDt s wrists Grant GroDt saw the four tour men dl and n a great fear settled on OD him Oe tie shuddered to think at nt what they must must even eVeD now DOW be looking Why had he be not raIsed on an outcry after the shooting now How Is It they had been blen out so 0 short awhile n a awhile while tie lie at ot the bovine lne face tace of the deputy who was chewing to to- tobacco tobacco bacco basso It was wa homicide he do- do de declared dared s what they nil all say sav the deputy murmured looking Into the tire fire Payson Grant GraDt gained little solace i when the four tour came downstairs It was the doctor with the piercing eyes ItI I and direct embarrassing stare who assumed tt U e a lend le td In to the conversation oDe hone of then theM paid any attention to the handcuffed man ODe One abot bot at nt that range ranee would have stopped him the tb doctor declared and yet this man pumped pomped six Is of them Into his heart henrt You Ton gentlemen are certain you heard no cries for help belp or orno orno orno no sounds of a n struggle I can cnn swear t to It Weld declared There was neither time for tor a n struggle gee gle nor for cries Grant Interrupted rm rw not a lawyer lowyer said the doctor but I m bound to say things don t look fool well for von vou my man The do- do degree de decree gree cree of premeditation Is a con Ider able factor In to the consideration ot of crime The premeditation was on Sutton s spart spart part not mine Grant said sold eagerly That can be proved Did you tale take any aDY letters from his pockets There was In nothing any pocket q t My Iy wife Ife read the Ule letters I mean She Shell 11 corroborate them I 1 m afraid said the doctor she won t be able abia to aid you materially W hat do you think sheriff Ito It s my belief those letters never had any existence he answered Dy Dy By the deed id man mans s side aide I found a cigarette tn thirds two o smoked smoke It was of a brand braDd In th silver sll bo box bos which evidently had been beeD on the overturned I 1 table taLle He tie had been smoking Grant remembered that Sutton had hod taken one of Ms his cigarettes Yes he said And you yon lighted one a little otter after he die dla Your Tour own was only half smoked You Son ltd dill smoke didn t you lee les Grant GraDt admitted nd Ind you are going to ask a jury to bell believe ere that after otter sitting down long enough for tor him to smoke two thirds of a cigarette you suddenly felt Im polled to slay an on unarmed man for tor moUses es of self preservation atlon You ha hate hae e already told toM us that you had notime no notime notime time for a n struggle or even een e e en to call to these gentlemen for assistance I donot do donot not think you will find End a Jury to cred credIt credIt credIt It what hot you tell It It rew Few murderers mur con contess confess confess tess fess their guilt hut but most of them taLe take more pains with statements that you have hore done dODe The sheriff turn turned d to his hI deputy Dring Bring him along Steve Stere Where are you on taking me m to tn Grant demanded The The county lockup said the dep- dep dent deputy uti nt uty I suppose I 1 can cnn get you yon gentlemen any time I want you iou Ur tile sheriff sheria Inquired U WL shall be on the end of ot the wire any time you ou need us S eld eld answered d dIt It was Into a big old limousine U at they pushed tI tie e wretched retched Grant lie sat between d and nud sheriff the deputy drove e It was wai a Ir og trip down the steep grades In the darkness I Grant found utterly ignored The two n Den en talked across him ton on They dl discussed cussed celebrated murder trials Ith the enthusiasm of 01 Brewster My Iy Godi Godl God I Grant GruDt creel criel I at lost last Isn t there anything else to talk Sleep If It you doll dou t want to listen the sheriff said ald gruffly The automobile stol sto ped at ot brell c k at a coffee coate wagon outside a aI aa a 4 town unknown to Grant raDt rant The three I to o drink hot coffee and V munch crullers Dont Don Dnn t I get el any Rny 1 Grant asked lie was wn cold I m ull ullIn allIn In It may mar do you oa good saId sold the doc doe tor lIe He handed Grant Crant a cup and aDd watched him drink It down eagerly That a 8 going to do you good he asserted Want Want anything f to eat ent 1 It would choke choka n o e l said Grant CHAPTER XIII Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make There was no DO of the many which had ball made I ayson Grunt Grants life of late Inte Ie comparable to the dreadful anguish of his bis awakening awo Ua lIe was as In n prison celL And it was not a cell ell attached to some re- re remote re- re remote re remote mote county seat amOD among the tha Adiron decks s lie II knew V with a 0 fearful that through some of which be h was nc D net t yet cognizant he was In that dread Hudson sIde for fortress fortress tress of guarded mn mon Sing Sing The o er overwhelming helming proofs of It swept away doubt Instantly tie He I was In prIson garb barb arb and ond he was I lying Ins Ing on n cot In to a 11 typical t cell The meager ap ap- appurtenances ap- ap appurtenances of the convict conIct con were ere around him There was that faintly odor which spoke of ot dirt by disinfectants Through the barred window he be could see the steel rod rods which guard guarded ed cd a larger larser aperture across what he be supposed was os a corridor And ADd through thIs second aperture t I e could see sec the riser and aDd beyond that a B line of barges passing straw Haver-straw lie Ile knew the Hudsons s topography too well nell ell to allow ollow himself to be deceived ed Always hen I t e had passed the lie somber ray bray building In the th Albany boats he bad stared at It with fascination such a walled city has for the tir free man hearer bearer at hand was WOg a section of a astone astone stone wall along which hleb strolled B a blue clad prison Guard buard over whose left arm was a n rifle rille L Every Csery cry hope hen he hen hen hen- n n gut have hav tried to hold bold was proved pro I useless lIe lie 1 laison ayson a son Grant GraDt was In Sing Sing and a convict conIct cons con id ne Be sat on the edge ede of ot his cot and tried to account for It It Dy By what un no unremembered unremembered remembered stages bad had he ha reached this pass What lapses of conscious consciousness consciousness consciousness ness bad had brought him Mm here bere The last vivid ld recollection he be b bad was riding In the tin limousine hand band handcuffed handcuffed cuffed between two men Grudgingly hey had given gl him refreshment and aDd then pushed on OD to a 8 county lockup lie remembered that the doctor looked at him and asked how bow ho felt The physician had hod v c his to the sheriff that he had hod the appearance of one who might be In for a spell of brain trouble And ADd then this awakening Grant GraDt knew that prisoners awaiting trial were not Dot made to wear near ear this shameful It was sheD given to those already sentenced It seemed only yesterday that he had been beeD In the Weld l camp campBe mp UI Be held his head between een his hands As he ho took them down from his burn burD burnIng lag forehead lie he saw v the long nails he had kept hept so carefully manicured were cut short and ond grime rimmed The skin of his bis hands seemed rougher and red re reder redder tier der They were ere the hands bands hODd of ot those who had done dODe manual toll Between the body of the prison and aDd the guarding w n III ill he saw y men Dlen In the some s garb he lie wore hauling stone and clearing up the yard ard Warders ardors with rules I 1 their labor Footsteps along the stone attracted his attention It was a warder lie He was n 1 heavy heasy yset hea set in-in in with a n J cl chin In an ant 3 I angry eye eyes Yellow tobacco stains ran from the Ule corner comer of a 0 droning Ing mouth lie fe Ie was hard hare tough Irascible lit fit beenk bein to tend such a as tl th s a tie ne un on unlocked locked the Ibe cell after otter glancing angrily at the iris nerSay nor ncr Say be he snot i ed don t you know Inow the better than thaD this Koll Holl loll up op your bedd D as c and clean cle D your cellI cell lit II have e to report you for tor this thia This sin aln t the th first time tima I 1 TO ye had to des you Grant shrank back as 88 It If expecting the word ord to be followed vell with a Ii blow What good would It do be he asked him stif S to try to get set Information from such uch a one as os this The Tir warder looked at him The prisoner was attempting In a clumsy Inefficient manner to per perform perform perform form the simple task that la is taugh every esery convict com on taking up such narrow oar nur row quarters The warder harder licked hIs lips as os though ha he wished he h do dared red punish the refractory convict COD How long have havo I 1 been beeD here Grant nerved himself to ask I I don t know the warder snapped d dI I ve ye only been beeD In the th new wing a month I 1 don t know Inow when hen you tame lume In lie He smiled as though he hod joy joyIn joyin JoyIn In what he be has wa to say I can COD tell you when alien hen you go out out When did not ask as be he added lou II go So out foot foremost st when your times Umes tIme s up The door of the cell clinked after him Grant sat In a n state of le lie felt fell If It be he concentrated sufficiently the lost days would come back to him The effort hurt him and brought no reward A sentence of the doctor doctors 8 recurred constantly Deliberate In Intent Intent Intent tent to kill tie lie had murdered crank Sutton but the dead man s a threat was fulfilled Sutton was free frea and he was here In ID the came same prison And hi hla time came he was going out feet foremost Presently a file of CoOt convicts In lock lockstep lockstep lockstep step passed his door hot hiot a man of them turned to look loo at ot him Guards armed guards er e everywhere where kept hept watch on such as os he Later a small man mon In prison dress come sweeping the corridor lIe seemed to linger Mager dell deliberately at Grant GroDt e edoor edoor door But Out when he spoke It was out of the corner of his bis mouth He lIe did not Dot dare to seem to slacken In ID his task or to turn his head bead Grant supposed sup supposed supposed posed that at each end of the corridor more coated blue guards were wera sta Honed lie sn says s wl the little man oDd and Grant Grunt knew be he referred to the warder worder he says saya- youve yone yon e gone dippy They re to bring brine the doc doc- Vi W hat s the big Idea You cant can t put over o them n d-n d n doctors doctora I ve ye tried The Ibe little man mon went rent scurrying away awny as though he had seen the eye of ot a guard What be said sold gave the wretched Grant GraDt more food tood for thought Ills bebo behavior lor had bad seemed su suspicious to the tha guard who bo was to bring a I This could only mean that until today he bad under understood understood understood stood prison dl and ond rules Grant had bad read rend of dual personalities and of how men had lost their Identities ties after severe shocks Such cases had always seemed to him farfetched tar far fetched and verging on OD the fraudulent And yet here he be was a numbered InhabItant Inhabitant of a city of criminals a man abase hose hands bands were tamed i-tamed and nails blackened with manual laborThe laborThe labor The guard guird brought a n young alert man to the cell door and unlocked It It was not Dot an on unkindly un face faca that stared down clonD at ot the man on OD the cot cots s sedge edge Stand up the guard thundered Meekly layson 1 ayson Grant arose and stood clumsily at attention The doc doe doctor doctors tors tor s manner monDer was has as such as people ople use with children or those mentally de de de- de When be he sent the guard away be looked loo Into late the com convicts consists s eyes eye and smiled Don t excite yourself he began Tell me what hat s made mada you different to- to today flay to-flay Jay day In ID loc locks ks and aDd voice olce and memory Why do you iou ou need to know DOW when hen you came In for Instance Doctor Grant said said with a kind hInd ot of de desperate eagerness today Is the first t time for tor I 1 cant can t tell you OU when that I 1 remembered who I am I 1 swear to you I 1 have hn no DO memory of ot this cell or these clothes before my conscious consciousness ness on waking up this morning I 1 practically began my life today or God s sake tell me t hy by I m here bere berel I You You are here for tor murdering a Cap Captain tamn Sutton The Tha prisoner ner hardly dared ask the question that was to gain the answer lie he wanted How flow long am 1 I In for lou re a liter lifer said the doctor Lan Can you remember any of the trial Fairly well the other answered You You see It gained a lot of 01 prominence because e the eld were mixed up op In It In a sn sense scone e 1 lour our stand that you didn t know Inow who you jou ou were or any anything anything anything thing about the affair made It bad fr fryou t rlou you ou Weld eld s b testimony convicted confided you i TO BE DE E CONTINUED |