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THE PRISONER O

A novelization of DARRYL F. ZANUCK'S 20th CENTURY PICTURE

SYNUPALE

In the prison yard a scaffold had been erected" for those poor mretches who had been tried and found guilty of conspiracy in the Cantation of President Lin- coln. Dr. Samuel Mudd, who ret the leg of the murderer, John Bilkes Booth, had been found guilty of conspiracy, although he did not know the man murderer. His wife, Peppy, and daughter, Martha, were in des pair, Will ha bo hanged?

CHAPTER SIX

A casual traveller riding down the pretty, tree shaded street, on

that

SBARKIBE

ARK ISLAND

In a dusky cell fuside the prison

with WARNER BAXTER,, GLORIA STUART and o cast of 1000 players

"Hal" locating his paper. "Mur: Life imprisonment."

Dr. Mudd stood gripping the barder and arson,

of his door. In the corridor, a guard) Suddenly he shouted, "Get moving, and a sergeant had also been listen- you jump!" ing to the execution.

"Next"

"Otto Lehrman," said the second prisoner.

"Desertion, forty years," Rankin The green water of the Atlantic

relish. He grinned. with Ocean had been displaced by the "You'll never make it. Otto," he said

Fend blue of the Gulf Stream. A flat with mock sympathy, "You're too akl. caim left ita surface glassily smooth. tret moving!" The brilliant tropical sun beat down

Suddenly he saw Dr. Mudi. Put- pitilessly on a US. Army transportting the papers down on his desk ibree days out of Hampton Roads.; On the vessel's foredeck, stretched out with their chains druped around them, lay a prostrate group of hag gard creatures, unshaven and garb- ed in tattered remnants.

"Land

on the starboard bow," shouted the look-out,

The

he came forward, pushing the next man from the line, and gazed at the ductor with astonishment and scom- ing pleasure,

"Well, if it isn't my old friend, Dr. Mudd. Dear Dr. Mudd!"

With mock cordiality Rankin ex- tended his hand. After a moment's

prostrate truddle stlered, hesitation, Mudd took it. Rankin lovely Summer day would have Painfully they rose to peer over: thought that the circus had come the bow rail. Only a thin, scarcely tightened his grip.

"And

to down.

who

In reality the occasion for this visible cloud-like line was visible. life, hall, they gave you was With a sudden jerk he pulled the But as they continued to stare. morbid picnic was the hanging of there rose from the sea, while the doctor forward and at the same time the unfortunates

had been found guilty of conspiracy in the vessel drew nearer, a grim, forbld-awung with his left to the jaw, floor- assination of President Lincoln.ding fortress. starkly white and ing him.

Couldn't hang you, eh?" he ancer- Crude

had been hastily leaming in the tropical sun. stands

"Well, boys, there she is-Sharked. Well, by Judas, you're going to erected in front of the prison gate.

Islandi

wish they had before I'm through Fish was being fried; hot com

Alexander Mudd, talely with you!" was being peddled.

Hauling off, he booted the recum It was close to the hour for the doctor of medicine In the County of

in Charles, Maryland, surveyed bent man. execution. At the foot of the seaf- from pain wracked eyes the forbid- Then, taking the papers from his fold the drummers were standing,

Here, desk, be snarled, "Nexil" and on the gruesome instrument of ding spectacle before them.

Rising from the floor, Mudd wiped death, the executioners tensely fald the court that had tried him,

was be to spend the rest of his life. his face with his handkerchelf, natie waited,

Suddenly Peggy Modil, with, Ew. And his physician's knowledge told ing to his annoyance that his hand Although he had minde ing and Martha, appeared in them that, behind those fever-struck was shaking, curtyard. She stood rooted in hor walls, that might be a short sen- up his mind that as a prisoner he must expect to receive humiliating Tons she realized she had walked tence.

treatment, and he had resolved to Fort Jeffersou. Dry Tortugas. into the execution scene,"

"It can't be now.

Sixty-five miles out in the Guit of endure it patiently for it would do no good to rebel-still he had not Mexico, place of living dead. she cried.

The transport drew alongside the expected to be so cruelly degraded. "You got the best place in the yard, Indy," and soldier told her pier, Jutting out from the forbid-Despite his determination to hea Yonder where they'll come out.". ding seawall. Negro troops, detailed stoic, his nerves were badly jangled. The tropicul sun, streaming down With

on them, the little group of forgot- convulsive

she as guards, trooped down to Kasp

the prisoners, en men were conducted to the big, turned and buried her face in Ew-dock, to take over

who were herded down the gang- ing's shoulder,

entered the prison yard. "Steady." he said. "There's plank, their chaites clanking with each gate through which they bud other way to know.

A

not now!"

130

pamful step.

the

Standing there, their wrists and ankles bleeding from the weight of

There was n rolling of drums and A The condemned men crossed the soldiers stood at attention as the bridge, which was the only the chains, they listened apathetic the great, double doors at the entrance to the prison, ane of the yard slowly opened.

number,

of their rogue, grinned

21 fithy

ally to Sergeant Rankin.

"Before you go any further," he At a slow step a squad of four toothlessly at the soldiers and jerking glared at them, his venomous gazz soldiers appeared, followed by the his thumb over his shoulder, matter-resting longest on Dr. Mudd, "I wan: you to listen to me. Because i know one woman conspirator, Mrs. Sared.

exactly what you're thinking, every rat, bonneled and velled, walking That's him, soldiers!" heavily between two elergymen, An- The Negros stared curiously at Dr. mother's son or you. You're figger other squad of four soldiers and the Mudd, who unaware of their interest,ing on whether you're going to be drums rolled again.

shuffled wearily along in his chains, able to brunk out of here."

Grinning from one to the other, Standing close to Ewing, her hand- But suddenly his face lighted with he declared, "Well, we've got a little kerchiet in her mouth, Peggy Mudd happy astonishment.

second watched the doors open for

He had recognized Buck, the negro way here of putting thoughts like that out of your hends ... follow time. This time a man walked be- who had worked for him. tween the two groups of soldiers.

A third roll of drums fourth

a

Slowly the great door swung

suppose

"Why Buck!" he exclaimed.

"Move on, white man," said Buck, with no sign of recognition, his ex- pression, like the others, hard and cruel,

me"

As the gate swung open, he bowed elaborately at Dr. Mudd.

"You first, Doctor?" On the other side of the gate the prisoners shut. The procession was ended.

were lined up along the Dr. Mudd stiffened, but after bank of what appeared to be a mont. Mrs. Mudd turned, white and

Pointing down at its dark waters, dazed, to Ewing, "Sam didn't come moment of hesitation he went on.

Presh meat, Sarge' said the the Sergeant.continued acidly, "When out," she whispered. "Oh, do you

does that mean he's Corporal. "teady for 'em?"

over you slops get to tggering on Yawning, Sergeant Rankin looked breaking out of here, I just want you going to liver

"Shout em in.

to give a little thought to this, mont. The suspense had been too much up." for her Merciful darkness-elosed He came around to the front of It runs all the way around the island. in upon her. Ewing caught her as his desk, and leaning on it, glanced It's 75 feet nerasy and 30 feet ileep.

through the papers,

And you know what we keep in it? she swayed and held her tightly.

Fourth in line, Dr. Mudd gazed We keep pets. Nice little pets. We No one looked at them. An officer's voice bruke the awful steadily at Rankin. He did not ex-got more often in that meat than silence. Pre

"Present

arm!"

peet sympathy from this man who you could count. And sometimes we There was a rattle of straps and and aided in his arrest, but his was feed 'em, but not often!" metal. Another awful silence, and a familiar face and in this horrible then the drop of the four traps. Apluce there was a certain sad pleasure great gasp went up from those us even in recognizing an old enemy.

"Name?" said Rankin to the first sembled, i mulled scream or two, and then a shout which rose to a man. roar outside the prisons gate.

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