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A low, husky laugh came through those heavily bearded lips, and the stranger flung out his hands in a sweeping gesture, sunken eyes glowing with an almost savage light as he spoke with more coherence: "Why is it, young gentleman? Why did I not leave, do you ask? Look! All about you it stretches: a cell, a death-cell, from which escape is impossible!
I shouldn't care if I were responsible for it myself, save that it is so pitiful a thing for which to hang a man. . . . I have just had a talk with the man on shift of my death-watch. A little less than a year ago, Jake Oppenheimer occupied this same death-cell on the road to the gallows which I will tread to-morrow. This man was one of the death-watch on Jake. He is an old soldier.
In a little while they will try to befool me. They will take me from this cell to the bath, according to the prison custom of the weekly bath. But I shall not be brought back to this cell. I shall be dressed outright in fresh clothes and be taken to the death-cell. There they will place the death- watch on me. Night or day, waking or sleeping, I shall be watched.
It is not merely in the type and the lettering, it is a difference in the way the news is treated and the kind of words that are used. In America we love such words as "gun-men" and "joy-ride" and "death-cell": in England they prefer "person of doubtful character" and "motor travelling at excessive speed" and "corridor No. 6."
And Ben welcomed the plan as might a prisoner, waiting in the death-cell, welcome a reprieve. He turned, groping with his hand. There was no use of waiting longer. The knife lay just beyond his reach; and softly he moved his body through the grass. But this gate to mercy was closed before they reached it.
When they put a feller in the death-cell they pass in the finest chuck in the land. You know, if a feller's got a smart lawyer he can keep up that line of eatin' for maybe two or three years by appealin' his case and dodges like that." "I don't want to talk," said Joe. "Oh, all right, kid," said the thief flippantly. Then he rattled his grated door to draw Joe's attention.
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