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THE PRISONER SHARK ISLAND
A novelization of DARRYL F. ZANUCK'S 20th CENTURY PICTURE
SYNOPRIA
In the prism yard a scaffold had been erected for those pone wretches who had been tried and found guilty of conspiracy in the dragsnation of President Lin- coln. Dr. Samuel Auld, who get the leg of the murderer, John Pilken thuth, had been found quilty of conspirnen. withough he
did not know the man was a murderer. His wife, Peggy, wed daughter, Marthu, were in des- pair. Will he be hanged?
to down
CHAPTER SIX
have
A casual traveller riding down the pretty, fron shaded street, an that lovely Summer day would thought that the circus had on
In reality e cension for this morbid plenic was the hanging of The unfortunates who had found guilty of conspiracy in the assassination of President Lincoln.
stands
hastily Crude
had been erected in front of the prison gute Fish was being tried: hot corn
** ]•ip #relit,
I was close to the hour for the execution. At the foot of the seaf
fold the drummers were standing, and on the gruesome instrument of death, th executioners tensely
with WARNER BAXTER,, GLORIA STUART and a cast of 1000 players.
"Huh," loenting his paper. "Murs In a dusky cell inside the prison Dr. Mudd stood gripping the bars der and arson. Life imprisonment." of his door. In the corridor, a guard] Suddenly he shouted, "Get moving. and a sergeant ud also been listen- you lunip!" ing to the execution,
The green water of the Atlantic Ocean had been displaved
by the blue of the Gulf Stream. A dat rat left its surface glasstly smooth.
The brilliant tropical sun bent down- pititely on a US. Army transport, three days out of Hampton Roads, On the vessel's foredeck, stretched jout with their chains draped around then, lay a prostrate group of hag and creatures, unshaven and garh-! Fed in tattered remuants.
"Next. "Quo Lehrmau," snld the second prisoner.
"Derertion, forty years," Raskin ratad with
relih. He grinned, you'll never make it. Otto," he said with mock sympathy, "You're too old. Get moving!
Suddenly he saw Dr. Mudd. Put- ting the papers down on his desk te enme forward, pushing the next an from the line, and gazed at the doctor with astonishment and reon. ing pleasure.
“Well, if it isn't my old friend. Dr.
"Land on the starboard bow Mudil. Dear Dr. Madd
With mock cordiality Rankin ex- tended his hand. After a moment's houted the tank-mut.
Thu
huddle prostrate
stirred. hesitation, Mudd look it. Rankin Painfully they ruse to peer overtightened his grip. the bow rail. Only a thin, scarcely "And so, all they gave, you was
the cloud-like lie was visible. tire, ?""
continued to
U
as they
stare, With a sudden jerk he pulled the there rose from the sea, while the doctor forward and at the same time vessel, drew neater, a grim, forbid-swung with his left to the jaw, floor-
hun fortress, starkly, white, and ing him, gleaming in the tropical sun.
"Couldn't ang you, eh?" he ancer-
Hauling off, he booted the rocum-
"Well, boys, Biere she, Is--Sharked. "Well, by Judas, you're going to Island
wish they had before I'm through Samuel Alexander Mudd, lately with you!" doctor of melleine in the County of Charles 121 Maryland, surveyed bent man, from pain wracked eyes the forbid- Then, Taking the papers from his Rising from the floor, Mudd wiped ding spectacle before them. Here, desk, he snarled, "Next!"
in the court that had tried him.
he to spend the rest of his life, his face with his handkercheif, notie- Suddenly Peggy Muld, with Ew. And his physician's knowledge tolding to his annoyance that his hand ing and Martha, appeared in the bim that, behind the fever-struck was shaking. Although he had maste courtyard. She strud rooted in hor- walls, that might be a short sen-up his mind that as a prisoner he must expect to receive hoolinting For as she realized she had walked Itence,
treatment, and he had resolved to into the execution scene.
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Standing There, their wrists and pful step.
There was a rolling of drums and As the condemned men crossed ankles bleeding from the weight of the soldiers stood at attention us the bridge, which was the only en-the chains, they listened apathetic-
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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 guze soldiers, appeared, followed by the his thumb over his shoulder, miter-resting longest on Dr. Mudd, "I want one woman conspirator, Mrs.
Sure rat, bonneted and veiled, walking heavily between two clergymen. An- other sqund of four soldiris and the drums rolled again...
"That's him, soldiers!"
you to listen to me. Because I know exactly what you're thinking, every
The Negros stared curiously at Dr.mother's son or you. You're figger- Mudd, who unaware of their interest,ing on whether you're going to be shullled wearily along in his chains. able to break mut of here."
Grinning from one to the other, But suddenly his face lighted with he declared, "Well, we've got a little happy astonishment.
way here of putting thoughts like
Standing close to Ewing, her hand- kerchief in her mouth, Peggy Mudd watched the doors open for a second I had recognized Buck, the negro that out of your heads... follow ilme. This time a man walked be- tween the two groups of soldiers.
third roll of drums
fourth
and
Slowly the
great door swung shut. The procession was ended. Mrs. Mudd turned, white dazed, to Ewing. "Sam didn't come out," she whispered. "Oh, do you does that mean he's suppos
going to
me!"
As the gate swung open, he bowed elaborately at Dr. Mudd.
"You first, Doctor!"
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"Why Buck!" he exclained. "love on, white man," said Buck, with no sign of recognition, his ex- pression, like the athers, hard and cruel.
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