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 crimes. Of course, people do not actually condemn what they call crimes—except when the crimes endanger themselves. They admire the man they call criminal. They admired this man and proved it. They knew what he had been doing; and he was free.

"To be sure, the police put up a pretense at not knowing where he was; that was a part of the buffoonery. Now that he was handed over to the law, it had to take its course; and in this case, not even a jury could free him. He was senienced to life imprisonment.

"Of course, being what is called a criminal, he had far more political influence than a lawabiding fool. He was a member of an organization useful to a prominent and powerful politician who had, in his debt, the governor of the state. So the prisoner remained in the penitentiary only long enough to drop, for a while, from public notice; then the governor pardoned him, secretly.

"Immediately he sought my mother again; and killed her. I found her.

"You will excuse so much personal feelings; but I am attempting, Logan and Carrick, to